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Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 2

Continued from Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1 The Myths (Part 1) … Myth 1: 98% of all studies in this area were ignoredMyth 2: Cass recommended no Trans Healthcare for Under 25s.Myth 3: Cass is demanding only Double Blind Randomised Controlled Trials be used as evidence in “Trans Healthcare”Myth 4: There were less than 10 detransitioners out of 3499 patients in the Cass study. The Myths (Part 2)… Myth 5: The Cass Review is worthless because it is not Peer ReviewedMyth 6: The proposed service is based on the idea that [read more...]

Sex and Gender

Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1

It has now been just little under a week since the publication of the long anticipated NHS independent review of gender identity services for children and young people, the Cass Review. The review recommends sweeping [read more...]

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Hopi Ear Candling – Removing the Grey Goo Between Your Ears

by Andy L in featured 183

Quacks like to tell us that their healing arts are thousands of years old and based on ancient principles that have withstood the test of time. Like most things in their advertising spiel, it is a canard and does not bear any resemblance to the truth. Reiki, Reflexology, Osteopathy and [read more...]

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Steiner Schools and Risk Factors for Child Abuse

by Andy L in featured 118

When you lead children to feel the beauty of sunrise and sunset, to be sensitive to the beauty of flowers and to the majesty of thunder and lightening, when, in short, you develop in them the aesthetic sense, you are doing far more for them than if you were to [read more...]

The Muddling of the American Mind: Part I

23rd July, 2022 76

In a recent blog post on the web site Science Based Medicine, Steven Novella asks the question “What does the science actually say about biological sex?” His motivations are made quite clear in the opening [read more...]
On the existence of females

8th June, 2020 53
The Capture of Nature

3rd September, 2020 50
Tribal Scepticism

3rd January, 2020 22
Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1

14th April, 2024 21

What Every Parent Should Know About Steiner-Waldorf Schools

2nd November, 2012 483

You may know my feelings about Steiner/Waldorf Schools*. Most importantly, that prospective parents are not being told about the occult foundations of the Steiner philosophy. You may think that the mystical, spiritual and esoteric movement [read more...]
Frome Steiner Academy: Absurd Educational Quackery

27th February, 2012 401
Steiner Schools: An Alternative to Education.

14th November, 2012 347
Steiner Academy Exeter: Misleading Choices

28th March, 2013 292
Steiner Academy Bristol, A Challenge: Be Open With Parents

8th January, 2013 252

Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body

3rd June, 2011 9

The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at Exeter and Plymouth Universities have issued an excited press release about how their researchers have demonstrated the benefits of acupuncture and how it would save resources for [read more...]
John Wesley and The Origins of the Natural Health Movement

14th November, 2009 41
The Magnetic Therapy Water Wand: A Debunking from History

8th June, 2010 19
On the The Reckless Physicking of Amateur Females.

16th November, 2010 35

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