http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving.html#comment-12315 Jeanette Winterson: Art and ‘Misrepresentations’ | The Quackometer Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:31:32 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving-quackery.html#comment-12315 [...] medicine. As such, it risks people putting their trust in the wrong places. It is worth repeating the words of Yusef Azad, Director of Policy and Campaigns for the National AIDS Trust, The tragedy [...] [...] medicine. As such, it risks people putting their trust in the wrong places. It is worth repeating the words of Yusef Azad, Director of Policy and Campaigns for the National AIDS Trust, The tragedy [...]

]]> http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving.html#comment-9922 Curing Homeopathy | The Quackometer Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:18:12 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving-quackery.html#comment-9922 [...] alternatives to real medicine. We have found this most shocking when homeopathic missionaries tell vulnerable African people with HIV that they can treat them. Homeopaths use the denigration of medicine as a standard marketing tool. [...] [...] alternatives to real medicine. We have found this most shocking when homeopathic missionaries tell vulnerable African people with HIV that they can treat them. Homeopaths use the denigration of medicine as a standard marketing tool. [...]

]]> http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving.html#comment-5403 Gimpy Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:16:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/11/massively-distracting-cruelly-deceiving-quackery.html#comment-5403 I can't find a reference to a "nearly 8,000 people diagnosed with HIV in the UK alone last year[2006]" on the NAT website. Perhaps they mean <a HREF="http://www.nat.org.uk/document/148" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">this report (pdf)</a> which has the 2005 figures. Also why do they talk about the 2007 figures when the year is not over? The <a HREF="http://www.nat.org.uk/document/79" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">2006 figures (pdf)</a> put the worldwide deaths at nearly 3 million (2.9), which is a much more higher and dramatic number. I'm beginning to think the SoH haven't read the NAT site. It's not like them not to do their research is it? I can’t find a reference to a “nearly 8,000 people diagnosed with HIV in the UK alone last year[2006]” on the NAT website. Perhaps they mean this report (pdf) which has the 2005 figures. Also why do they talk about the 2007 figures when the year is not over? The 2006 figures (pdf) put the worldwide deaths at nearly 3 million (2.9), which is a much more higher and dramatic number. I’m beginning to think the SoH haven’t read the NAT site. It’s not like them not to do their research is it?

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