Last week, BBC London broadcast a dreadful programme promoting an animal chiropractor despite the fact that there is no good evidence chiropractic is of any use on animals and that chiropractors can only work with animals under very tightly defined…
BBC London 94.9 Barking Hour Lives Up to its Name
by Andy Lewis • • 15 Comments
Yesterday, on BBC London radio, Joanne Good and Anna Webb used their Barking Hour show to mislead listeners about how chiropractic, homeopathy and kiniesiology can help pets with serious illnesses. Her guest on the show was a McTimoney chiropractor by the…
Society of Homeopaths Seeks Accreditation from the Professional Standards Authority
by Andy Lewis • • 22 Comments
Health regulators do an important thing: protect the public from the potential risks that health care providers and their practices pose to their clients. Risks cannot be avoided in health care. For any treatment that will have effects, there is…
Steiner Schools, Vaccination and Measles Outbreaks
by Andy Lewis • • 172 Comments
The UK is currently experiencing outbreaks of measles. Many children have been hospitalised and there has been one suspected death. This is an entirely preventable situation and would not be happening if there was sufficient levels of MMR uptake. However,…
Homeopaths Embrace Vaccination Against Measles – Or Do They?
by Andy Lewis • • 49 Comments
There is no general reason why a child in the UK should suffer measles. We have excellent and safe medical technology to ensure communities can be free from this nasty disease. And yet, we are seeing hundreds of children…
Crick’s Nobel Medal Ends Up In Questionable Hands
by Andy Lewis • • 34 Comments
Yesterday, the family of Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, sold his Nobel medal for more than £1.3 million. It was reported that the medal was sold to Jack Wang, “CEO of Biomobie, a regenerative medicine technology…
Steiner Academy Exeter: Misleading Choices
by Andy Lewis • • 277 Comments
Once again, we see a proposed new state-funded Steiner School failing to be open about the occult nature of its philosophy and its spiritual goals. The new Free School, the Steiner Academy Exeter, is confident it will be given approval…
Bill Roache, Karma, Reincarnation and Steiner Schools.
by Andy Lewis • • 211 Comments
Watching the lunchtime news, it would appear that actor Bill Roache, who has played Ken Barlow in Coronation Street for over 50 years, has been making comments about how sexual abuse victims have brought their problems on themselves as “everything…
The BBC Will Make You Sick
by Andy Lewis • • 109 Comments
Last Monday BBC South Inside Out broadcast an investigation into ‘WiFi Refugees’. These are people who claim to be so badly affected by the radiation emitted from modern devices, such as mobile phones and WiFi, that they have to seek…
On the Use of Red Wine for Paediatric Anaesthetics during Ritual Genital Cutting.
by Andy Lewis • • 52 Comments
An ancient spiritual rite of initiation takes place. The foreskin of a newborn infant is to be removed. That area of the body that is most sensitive to touch and serves as protection to the infant’s penis it to be…
Biodynamic Farming: “A rather magnificent cow-dung ice cream cone”
by Simon Baker • • 135 Comments
More ill-considered tosh from our national broadcaster. This time it’s biodynamic farming. Sitting out on the bonkers fringes of the organic farming movement squats another of Rudolph Steiner’s bastard offspring birthed at a lecture series in 1924. [Follow the link and…
Write to Your MP about NHS Choices
by Andy Lewis • • 1 Comment
Today’s Guardian has revealed the extraordinary story of how the Department of Health corrupted information on the NHS Choices web site to make it more pleasing to homeopaths and the Prince of Wales. The story was uncovered by a Freedom of Information request…
