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Angelina Jolie Feeds Her Kids Bugs!

Remember drinking “bug juice” at summer camp? We knew it wasn’t literally bug juice, right? Well Angenlina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s brood actually do eat bugs, but they’re crunchy not juicy. While shooting her Louis Vuitton ad in Cambodia, Angelina revealed that she and her kids love to eat insects, specifically crickets. “It’s their favorite [...]

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WANTED: Charming, aggressive, carefree people who are good at looking out for Number 1 Articles

WANTED: Charming, aggressive, carefree people who are good at looking out for Number 1

If our headline describes you, you could be a psychopath. Really. Our title is actually part of a classified newspaper ad that researchers used to recruit potential psychopaths from non-jailed populations. The goal of the research was to study the differences between “successful” and “unsuccessful psychopaths.” Successful psychopaths are people that who would flunk The Psychopath [...]

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Hot Bodies by Us

This time last year, Us Weekly did its annual “bikini season” issue that focused on “Diets That Work!” for the stars with the “hottest bodies.” This year the theme is pretty much the same Hot Bodies 2011: Stars share their favorite diet & toning secrets to get sexy fast. But most of the featured stars [...]

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Do you know who broke into my car last night? Reward offered

When Michele was heading off to the gym this morning, she discovered that Mark’s car had been broken into and his 11-inch MacBook Air had been stolen along with the other contents of his briefcase. The serial number on the MacBook Air is C02DQ4KRDJDL in case you see one for sale on eBay. A similar [...]

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Wow! Scientology & Nude Psychotherapy in New Book by Goats’ Author Ronson Articles

Wow! Scientology & Nude Psychotherapy in New Book by Goats’ Author Ronson

Do you remember Tom Cruise‘s rant against psychiatry on the Today Show with Matt Lauer in 2007? Mr. Cruise, a member of the Church of Scientology, has been so consistently outspoken against psychiatry that the International Association of Scientology awarded him the Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004, in part for “eradicating the very thought [...]

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Who is Mr. Farthing and what does he have to do with Kate Middleton’s fertility?

Today, the magazine In Touch Weekly published a non-story entitled Will & Kate’s Baby Heartbreak. The article, based on anonymous “royal sources,” claims that stepmother Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall told a friend that “health complications from Kate’s adolescence raised red flags that may have an impact on her ability to conceive.” The article goes [...]

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Dukan Diet based on ‘coprological studies’ (undigested calories in feces)

The scientific evidence behind Pierre Dukan’s fashionable diet is slim-to-none. Dr. Dukan’s dietary beliefs and recommendations are based on i) anecdotal evidence (see Baloney Detection Kit) and trial-and-error observations in his clinical practice and ii) “market validation” from sales figures of his book. In 2007 The Dukan Diet was second only to Harry Potter on [...]

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Gaga threatens Creamists over “Nausea-inducing” Breast Milk Confection

Yes you heard correctly. Breast milk ice cream. Lactation has never been so in….at least in the U.K. An eccentric ice cream shop in the London called The Ice Creamists started serving ice cream made with human breast milk, calling it “Baby Gaga.” According to Popeater.com, Gaga’s attorneys sent the owners a letter asking them [...]

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Is Lindsay Lohan really responsible for stealing that necklace? Articles

Is Lindsay Lohan really responsible for stealing that necklace?

The 1905 silent film The Kleptomaniac is a social commentary about two women, from different social classes, who both commit shoplifting crimes and are caught, arrested and taken to court. The film highlights the different ways in which the two women, one rich and one poor, are dealt with by the criminal justice system. Social [...]

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Boguski, Berman Define the Goody-Gaga Effect in Harvard Speech on Medical Internet

Today, during an invited lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health, Celebrity Diagnosis co-founders Drs. Mark Boguski and Michele Berman, defined a new concept in health communication at the interface of social media and pop culture. Dubbed The Goody-Gaga Effect, it refers to the phenomenon of sharply increased volume of search traffic, for specific [...]

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Steve Mazan was Literally Dying To Do Letterman

In February or March 2005, 35 year-old comedian Steve Mazan was diagnosed with a “rare form of intestinal cancer.” We always try to provide the most accurate and specific information about diseases because the mainstream media often glosses over important details and sometimes just gets it wrong (such as in the case of Apple CEO [...]

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Sali Hughes tweets Jan 17th is ‘Fat Day’ Articles

Sali Hughes tweets Jan 17th is ‘Fat Day’

According to snarky beauty columnist Sali Hughes, “Ugh. Tomoz, Jan 17th is known as ‘Fat Day’ because a high of 76% women are depressed by their bodies post-Xmas.” Sali’s advice: “Ignore, dress slutty, laugh.” Sali’s notification and exhortation, tweeted about 8am Eastern U.S. time this morning, has apparently resonated among her followers since their retweeting [...]

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