The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising the public to be wary of stem cell therapy scams after three people were arrested last December. According to the FDA’s advisory, the men were charged with 15 counts of “criminal activity related to manufacturing, selling and using stem cells without FDA sanction or approval.” A fourth [...]

Here at TopSecretWriters, we’ve sometimes investigated claims by organizations that a certain natural remedy product can have specific health benefits, but never before have we seen a natural-food scam quite as widespread as the Acai Berry weight loss fraud revealed by the FTC on December 1st. The FTC often invests time and resources into investigating [...]

On October 17, 2011, HealthGrades issued a press release indicating that the site offers assessments on the nation’s hospitals. According to the press release, “Patients are increasingly demanding objective clinical quality measures on which to base their healthcare decisions.” The site states that it offers those measures to the public, and that it considers itself [...]

Pseudoscience is everywhere: unsubstantiated claims passed off as science for the gullible masses. Instead of the usual rigor and research, these claims are often vague, unprovable and in some cases simply absurd. Here are a few of the most outrages cases of pseudoscience. The Pet Psychic Television network Animal Planet introduced a series in 2002 [...]

The Center for Disease Control estimates that an average of 1 in 110 children in the United States has some form of Autism. Autism, scientifically known as Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), encompasses a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. These challenges are because people with ASDs process information [...]

Turns out Wikileaks founder Julian Assange couldn’t make good on his promise to release secret information that could supposedly take down a Swiss bank and create a PR nightmare for Bank of America. Assange made the claim in 2009 and last year, saying he had documents that would reveal an “ecosystem of corruption,” according to [...]

The Securities Investor Protection Agency is warning consumers about an elaborate phishing scam that targets investment crime victims. This time, the cyber fraudsters are taking aim at those who have already been victimized by investment scams. The agency issued the warning after the organization learned that crooks were contacting the victims of investment scams, pretending [...]

That “salad” might not be as healthy as you think. Researchers at the University of South Carolina say that food companies are tricking dieters by giving junk food healthy-sounding titles. A soon-to-be published study shows that dieters believe a product labeled as “salad” would be much healthier than one labeled “pasta.” “The fact that people’s [...]

You may or may not have heard of The Web Bot Project, a project that was created in the late 1990s, initially to assist in making stock market predictions. In using technology to crawl the Internet to allocate keywords, web bot takes a snapshot of the text preceding and following the keyword search, which is [...]

It seems that a group calling themselves the Unique Collective Awareness of DIA (UCADIA) has claimed to have predicted the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and allege that the first two have already arrived. This self-proclaimed Spiritual Society (which is in fact made up of several smaller societies) was founded by Frank [...]