The claims made about the benefits of using a salt lamp are many. They range from reducing the need for an inhaler, to promoting happiness and wellbeing. Most of them seem to revolve around the idea that they purify the air.
An article in the Herald this week talked about several innovations that were showcased at the Hamilton Fieldays event. Unfortunately, one of the products, DermaShield, appears to be very much pseudo-scientific.
It had to happen, I guess. A new book, Sextrology: The Astrology of Sex and the Sexes, written by New York astrologers Stella Starsky and (wince) Quinn Cox gets a fair amount of column inches in the Dominion Post (July 8.)