The Blood Type Diet: Complete and Utter Rubbish

Fad diets come and go over the years and decades. Such diets are particularly popular if they propose some strange idiosyncratic way of eating that doesn’t differ too much from someone’s regular eating pattern. That way, the person can convince themselves that they are making a big change in their health, even if it isn’t …

Mesmerism: the Man, the Word, the Pseudoscience

To be mesmerized is to be fascinated, obsessed, and so attentive to something that you appear to be under a spell. Of the words in the English language, “mesmerized” has a relatively recent origin. In fact, it was produced s a result of a fascinating (mesmerizing?) type of pseudoscience that was popular in the 18th …

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