With that, our story comes to a close. Or does it? The brain is a tricky organ, completely capable of holding two utterly conflicting viewpoints at the same time without second thought. This is why skepticism isn’t called “anti-acupuncture.” Skepticism seeks to cut to the heart of the matter by educating for and encouraging critical [...]
Read The Intro Read Part One Read Part Two I took some pages from Mike Mignola’s book to create a particularly dark, perhaps a tad over-dramatic third act. The Ghost of Woo Consequence was actually the first one I came up with, and in some ways the impetus behind this series. It came about following the news of [...]
Read The Intro Read Part One We now find ourselves in Part Two, where Craig comes face to face to face with the Ghost of Woo Research, a brutal tag team that addresses the issues with serious research on a less than serious topic. You’d be better off writing a peer-reviewed journal article on where [...]
Read The Intro In Part One of our tale, Craig is visited by the Ghost of Woo Reasoning, namely Bertrand Russell’s Teapot. Makes sense. After all, both are unfalsifiable, imaginary things. The Ghost of Woo Reasoning was almost Ferdinand’s Booger, from the short-lived series I did on anecdotal vs. experimental evidence a while back. Acupuncture [...]
Be sure to have your handy Sci-ence.org Red Flags of Quackery handy! This is the start of one of those comics that just grew and grew as I was drawing it. Each time I thought I’d end it, I’d have to stop and think, “Well, I need to add a few panels to address this thing or [...]