Health Debunkers Gifts

"Grandma, if an apple-a-day really did keep the doctor away... the surgeon general would find that apples cause cancer!"

"Nice try, Jim, but there's no such thing as a 'Beer cleanse'."

Recipes from The Lying Gourmet

"Do you think the flat earth society has members round the globe?"

Rumours Online

Thwarting the Boys from Brazil

'Sure you can have another opinion but I still say you are a fat pig.'

'Ever since I had a disease named after me, people seem to keep their distance.'

'My first drink since my accident.'

Superstition City

'Never, Ever...believe everything you read.'

"Recent studies now show that people who use the aphorism ‘whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ have compromised immune systems."

"These grapes are a bit funny."

"The immigrant kids ate the class hamster, my teacher is an agent of Satan, and I got an A."

'We'll soon know whether or not the Easter rabbit is real.'

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"Your compulsive talk about crazy diets, get rich schemes, and mail order drugs -- your pacemaker's been hacked and you're spamming."

"Fortunately treatment will be relatively inexpensive since you have the generic form of the disease!"

A woman stops at a building directory sign for Centers for Diseases.

Rise of the Drones

"But you really can't trust the media."

Covid Juggling

'The Easter bunny doesn't come down the chimney. He hides his eggs in the backyard.'

Another myth de-bunked.

'Well, Mrs. Gilner, comparing the numbers, everything looks great. Your cholesterol is right in line, blood pressure good... you're definitely as healthy as a horse.'

"My mom said I can't come here anymore." "What? Why not, Billy?" "She said she sends me here to get hot chocolate, not to get bad relationship advice." "What 'bad' advice? All my advice is solid gold." "You told me to call the IRS with an anonymous tip about Andrea Wheaton's father avoiding taxes, so next time he tells her I'm a bad influence he'll look like a hypocrite." "That didn't work?"

Everything's a joke to you Fuscos! Even water retention! ??

"Mayonnaise....maaaayonnaise...."

'You can't get swine flu from your piggy bank!'

"It says here that you believed everything you saw in the press, I'll have someone escort you to the crazy section."

Obese guy looking a shelf labelled 'Free Fat Food'.

'...You've got no game.'

"In health news, everything you thought was good for you is now bad for you."

"Fasting means you stop eating. It doesn't mean to eat your food faster."

Excuse me. I have the most important announcement of my life. A scientific study shows that women who cut down on fat don't necessarily reduce their chances of heart attack or cancer. Thus I have a new two-pronged life strategy. Prong one: Eat as many french fries as I possibly can. Prong two: Remind the men in my life that the study only applies to women. Give me your fries or perish!!! I hate science. What if I wear a dress?