Pseudoscience continued to thrive in 2011, making my choice for the worst quackery of the year a difficult one. So much nonsense! Promoters of both new age and old-time hocus pocus continued to sell their unscientific therapies, as they have for decades (or centuries), including homeopathy, Ayurveda, acupuncture, qigong, reiki, magnet therapy, and a cornucopia of special "super foods", all guara
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