Possibly The Most Ironic Myth Ever
– By Mike Sutton –
Possibly the most #ironic thing in the history of the world is also about iron. Just how ironic is that?
HealthWatch
I am most delighted that the esteemed HealthWatch organisation, which [...]
Busting the Spinach Supermyth: The Skeptic’s Compendium
By Mike Sutton
The popular 32 year old myth that a misplaced decimal point in the published results of the iron content of spinach by Professor von Wolff, or else von Bunge, in the 19th century influenced scientists in the 20th century [...]
The Patrick Matthew Supermyth
By Mike Sutton.
A supermyth is a myth about a myth, where the second myth is created in an apparent atmosphere of concern to veraciously bust the first myth. What makes supermyths so powerful is that they appear all the more plausible [...]
Spin@ge II: Does the United States Department of Agriculture’s Publication of Spuriofacts Have its Origins in a Perverse Scientific Paper Written in 1937?
By Mike Sutton.
In an earlier article, Spin@ge (Sutton 2011), I revealed how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is irrationally promoting spinach as a good source of iron. This article provides some additional historical context [...]