According to this truly sketchy website, "if you feel unbalanced and generally worn down lately, it is probably because your biofield has fallen victim to the electromagnetic radiation around you." The answer is the iRenew bracelet, obviously. But one woman did not find that her electromagnetic radiation was dealt with properly by this bracelet! So she is suing the company: "Her attorney is asking that he be allowed to sue on behalf of the hundreds of people who bought the bracelets. He estimated damages at $5 million." Oh no, but I have been wearing it in my underpants!

Good news, everybody! Mercury, whose retrogradation celestial semiotician Emily Gould recently pointed to as a reason for the general state of weirdness so many of us seem to have experienced over the last few weeks, is no longer moving backwards! Everything will be fine now, unless astrology is total bunk or life actually is as miserable as it seems to be. Smiles! Or whatever your default rictus of choice happens to be.

Meet the climate change skeptics: "A handful of US scientists have made names for themselves by casting doubt on global warming research. In the past, the same people have also downplayed the dangers of passive smoking, acid rain and the ozone hole. In all cases, the tactics are the same: Spread doubt and claim it's too soon to take action."

Correction time in the Telegraph: "Owing to an editing error, our report 'Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists' (June 23) wrongly stated that research presented at the recent BPS conference by Sophia Shaw found that women who drink alcohol are more likely to be raped. In fact, the research found the opposite. We apologise for our error." Don't bother looking for the original article; it's been pulled. (It also got the part about provocative dress wrong.) [Via Felix Salmon.]

Could the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico move to the Atlantic and migrate up the Eastern seaboard? Yes, says, uh, some guy who used to toss a lot of "message in bottle" bottles into the ocean. One time, 40 years ago, he threw a bottle into the Gulf and he got a letter back from some lady who lived on the coast. "It took only a few months for that bottle to travel all the way around the state of Florida," says the guy. "The implications are chilling." Indeed. Indeed they are.