This week in What were they thinking … ? (#028)

This week pseudoscience and woo further highlights the problems in using alternative therapies when a women received 2nd degree burns from vaginal steaming. The FDA has stated the obvious by telling people that drinking bleach is a bad idea. Facebook admits it has been recording your conversations.

In less depressing news. The FDA has approved anew Tuberculosis drug. There may be a chlamydia vaccine in the near future. Breast cancer cells were turned into fat cells.

These and more stories are described at the time stamps below:

00:10 Autism may be closely associated to foetal oestrogen

01:48 Peer review identifies flawed research into HPV vaccine and declining birth rate research

05:57 FDA to Public ‘ don’t drink bleach ‘.

09:34 Women gets 2nd degree burns from new fad steaming of vagina

11:15 Mans penis is turning into a bone.

12:02 Chlamydia vaccine passes first hurdle

14:00 Japanese researchers find a way to predict sperm sex with greater than 80% accuracy

15:44 FDA approves new and third Tuberculosis drug

17:22 There may be a way to turn breast cancer cells into fat cells

19:16 Chemists make stable, isolated carbon ring

21:09 Facebook admits to listening to your conversations