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Are There Any Homeopathic Hospitals in the UK?

March 11, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Are There Any Homeopathic Hospitals in the UK?

It is a myth that there are homeopathic hospitals in the UK. What we have are the tiny, vestigial remnants of Victorian Quackery in a few small clinics.

The publication of the report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Evidence Check into Homeopathy has resulted in a lot of misinformation about how much public money is spent on homeopathy. The report states that there are four homeopathic hospitals in the UK, based in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow. How much...
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MP David Tredinnick is Wrong about the Homeopathy Report

March 1, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
MP David Tredinnick is Wrong about the Homeopathy Report

David ‘cash for questions’ Tredinnick is the MP who liked to buy astrology software and training on expenses. He is a keen supporter of pseudoscience and appears to be heading the charge for homeopaths to discredit the recent House of Commons Evidence Check into...
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George Vithoulkas Makes a Fool of Himself

February 24, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
George Vithoulkas Makes a Fool of Himself

This is a minor one but it is worth a brief post: George Vithoulkas is considered to be one of the top intellectuals in the homeopathic world. Revered for his teachings and fundamentalist approach to the teachings of Hahnemann, he is probably one of...
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The Bleakest Day for Homeopathy

February 22, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
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 homeopathy in the UK. But more than that, its implications will also be felt...
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Omniscan and GE Healthcare’s Sinister Libel Suit

February 17, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Omniscan and GE Healthcare’s Sinister Libel Suit

There are quite a few libel cases underway at present where large financial vested interests are using the insidious English libel laws to attempt to silence scientists and journalists who have questioned medical claims. To my mind, one of the most chilling and sinister...
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Boots Maternity TENS Machines. Do they work?

February 14, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Boots Maternity TENS Machines. Do they work?

So, in a few weeks, Quackometer Manor will have a new arrival, and like all good middle class parents-to-be, we are currently attending compulsory NCT classes, to learn all the mystical secrets of giving birth and looking after a little one. It’s all a bit...
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Liverpool NHS PCT Offering Quack Mysticism as Cancer Cure

February 7, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Liverpool NHS PCT Offering Quack Mysticism as Cancer Cure

Liverpool NHS Primary Care Trust funds a Department of Homeopathy, one the last four remaining publicly funded homeopathic hospitals in the UK. It publicises that the clinic in the Old Swan Health Centre can offer homeopathic treatments for everything from arthritis to depression...
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Dispensing with Homeopathy: A Proposal

February 3, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Dispensing with Homeopathy: A Proposal

Let’s run with an idea and see where it goes. The 10:23 campaign has now had loads of publicity and Boots have failed to address any of the central concerns: mainly, that homeopathy is a daft pseudoscience. Moreover, the pharmacy profession and the drugs...
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We would be the Sceptics answer to Jedward, if I had any Hair.

January 30, 2010
By Le Canard Noir

  Thanks to Stephen Law at the Centre of Inquiry for posting this video of myself and Simon Singh, just after our talks at Conway Hall. The day started with a mass overdose of homeopathic pills (see report in the Telegraph; it’s also on the front...
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10:23. My Personal Homeopathic Overdose

January 30, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
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 is because I have taken a massive overdose of the homeopathic remedies, Belladonna 30C,...
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10:23, Homeopathy and the Shame of the Pharmacy Profession

January 26, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
10:23, Homeopathy and the Shame of the Pharmacy Profession

This Saturday, hundreds of people, in many cities,  will be demonstrating outside Boots the Chemists about their selling of homeopathic remedies. Each volunteer will be taking a homeopathic ‘overdose’ of a Boots homeopathy product to demonstrate that there is nothing in the tablets...
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The Meaning of the 10:23 Homeopathy Campaign.

January 18, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
The Meaning of the 10:23 Homeopathy Campaign.

In the last few days, a new campaign has been launched with the aim of showing that homeopathy is an ‘absurd pseudoscience’ and that Boots the Chemists should not be selling these sugar pills to the public as if they were genuine medical...
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