TRC is bringin’ it! Cristina bites into a segment about dubious Health, or self-professed “wellness” bloggers and the potential hazards of their claims, and in some cases lies. Adam touches down with a detailed look into the origins of crop circles and the various explanations behind them. Finally, Darren dips into Tax-Free Savings Accounts to break down a political statement.
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SHOW NOTES
Dubious Health Bloggers
BBC News: Australian health blogger admits faking terminal cancer
The Guardian: Belle Gibson’s cancer lie is the tedious fulfilment of New Age thought
AU News: Belle Gibson: ‘No, None of it is true’
AWW: The truth about Belle Gibson
The Guardian: None of it’s true. Wellness blogger Belle Gibson admits she never had cancer
The Guardian: Pseudoscience and strawberries: ‘wellness’ gurus should carry a health warning
Gawker: The Food Babe Blogger is full of shit
Daily Mail: Belle Gibson lied cancer survival story
Science Based Medicine: Vani Hari aka The Food Babe
Neurologica Blog: Eating yoga mats
Science Based Medicine – Microwaves and nutrition
Crop Circles
Circular Reasoning: The ‘Mystery’ of Crop Circles and Their ‘Orbs’ of Light – CSICOP
Crop Circles Explained – Live Science
Crop “circle” the Skeptic’s Dictionary
Tax Free Savings Account
I like the show, but your pronunciation of UK county names is painful. Go to the website “forvo”, and you can type in a county name, or any word, and hear it pronounced by the natives.
Congrats for another great episode. I especially like Darren’s segment on tax free savings account. The way Darren investigated a politician’s number claim is reminiscent of the BBC radio’s More or Less. It is nice to have a Canadian equivalent.
I always find it interesting when a claim is true but does not imply what it suggests.
Great show! I, too, am glad people are wising up to people like Food Babe and others like her. (I work for an ABC affiliate, so I hear about these all the time… groan.)
One thing I wish is that in the show notes, you could link to the other episodes you reference in the podcast. I’m curious about the Vitamin C debunking you brought up in that segment.
Hi there,
Thanks for listening. Our website has a decent search feature, which is where i found this – http://www.trcpodcast.com/the-reality-check-83-easter-origins-vitamin-c-for-the-common-cold-brain-calorie-loss/
Although sometimes we use our Wikipedia page and do a word search.
🙂
Darren