Welcome to the Quackometer
WHAT IS THE QUACKOMETER ALL ABOUT?
The quackometer is a project based around the automation of debunking quack medicine on the web. The web is full of pages supporting dubious medical claims and inflated capabilities for cures. The freedom that the web gives us to express our views, entertain and do business also gives quacks a way to make a living by promoting nonsense treatments to unsuspecting people.
Spotting these web sites appears to be easy when you know what to look out for. If it is that easy, can the process be automated? The quackometer project intends to find out.
RECENT QUACKOMETER BLOG ENTRIES...
Secret Email Reveals more Homeopathic Killing in Kenya
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:01:46 +0000
I have history with the Abha Light Foundation. I first criticised them three years ago when I wrote about a UK homeopath, Julia Wilson, who had joined Abha Light in Kenya – an organisation that sells a homeopathic product called MalariX. This sugar pill is used to treat and prevent malaria. It does not [...]
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- The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killing 11 October 2007 11:47am My web hosting company Netcetera have received a complaint from the legal representation of the Society of Homeopaths about this posting. On the request of my...
- Homeopaths Through the Looking-Glass Homeopathy is fun. Pretending you can cure minor self-limiting ailments with magic water and sugar pills obviously brings countless hours of pleasure to lots of people and I, for...
- Homeopathy: A Warning from Africa This video is starting to do the rounds about how wonderful homeopaths are helping people in Ghana in malarial areas. I hope as many people as possible watch...
The Earl of Bewdley’s Response to the House of Commons Evidence Check
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:37:56 +0000
Look, I am cooking a moussaka at the moment. But I thought this needed discussing. This document is doing the rounds in quack circles and is a prominent response to the House of Commons Evidence Check on Homeopathy. With the Government likely to respond to this document as early as next week, I thought this [...]
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- £10,000 if you can show homeopathy works Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh have issued a challenge to homeopaths: show the world your evidence that homeopathy is effective for any single condition. After recently publishing a book...
- Homeopathy Does Not Cause Side Effects in Cancer Patients The Cochrane Library has published a new review of the effects of homeopathy on cancer patients**. Its conclusion is that “there is limited evidence that homeopathic remedies ease the side...
- The Bleakest Day for Homeopathy The much anticipated House of Commons report into the Evidence Check on Homeopathy has now been published and it may well be the report that changes the face of...
Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:13:00 +0000
This week in The Lawyer, Robert Dougans and David Allen Green wrote about the emerging phenomenon of ‘wiki litigation’ where there is large scale scrutiny and participation in legal proceedings using the web as a shared medium. They used the example of the British Chiropractic Association’s libel case against science writer Simon Singh. This [...]
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- The Breakspear Hospital and Antigen Vaccines Let’s jump off the deep end again with the Breakspear Hospital. Previously, we saw Dr Jean Monro using unproven allergy tests with highly questionable electromagnetic ‘therapies’ to treat food allergies....
- A Carnival of Bogus* Chiropractic One of the side effects of the BCA vs Chiropractic libel case is that there are a growing number of people who now realise that Chiropractic is bogus*. Even though...
- Pulling My Hair Out or, The Role of Mineral Hair Analysis in the Sale of Food Supplements initially posted on Holford Watch. Patrick Holford has set up a charity. Not poorly, fluffy kittens or...
Why NHS Homeopathy Must End
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:26:15 +0000
On the 28th of June, the British Medical Association will be meeting for their Annual Representative Meeting. Amongst a diverse range of business, the attendees will be asked to vote on a number of motions to stop or restrict the availability of NHS funded homeopathic treatment.
A motion (301) [pdf] by the agenda committee reads “there [...]
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- 10:23. My Personal Homeopathic Overdose Right now, if the homeopaths are correct, I should have paralysed arms, be in severe pain, have convulsions, delirium, skin itching all over and be unable to stand. That...
- Homeopath Struck Off. Shock! Appearing on the Society of Homeopath’s web site is a report that a member has been struck off their register. This is the first instance that I am aware of...
- That’s It for Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital Reported today in Pulse, Campaigners look to have lost their fight to save a leading homeopathic hospital, in a landmark case that accelerates the treatment’s deepening crisis over NHS funding.West...
The Curious Case of Nativis, The Forsaken Nobel Prize Winner and the Ghost of Jacques Benveniste
Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:05:03 +0000
I was recently alerted by Bob Park’s rather great What’s New email about an extraordinary new company in the US called Nativis.They have a swish new web site that proclaims “The New Era of Drug Signal Therapy”.
Nativis state they are developing a range of new medical products with the first being called Digitax™ which is [...]
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- Why I am Nominating Luc Montagnier for an IgNobel Prize Luc Montagnier is an interesting and strange character. Last year he was a shared winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. A remarkable achievement. However, his latest research can...
- The Epiphenomena of Quackery Sometimes it can be hard to tell science from pseudoscience. On the surface, both can look the same. What is remarkable is how deep this mimicry goes. It is not...
- Homeopathy Research Institute – The Highest Scientific Standards… The Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) has been set up by homeopaths Alex Tournier (who apparently works for Cancer Research UK) and Clare Relton (who is based at the University...
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