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Secret Email Reveals more Homeopathic Killing in Kenya

July 25, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Secret Email Reveals more Homeopathic Killing in Kenya

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...
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The Earl of Bewdley’s Response to the House of Commons Evidence Check

July 23, 2010
By Le Canard Noir

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...
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Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests

July 7, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Doctor’s Data and Bogus Tests

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....
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Why NHS Homeopathy Must End

June 17, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Why NHS Homeopathy Must End

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) by the agenda committee reads...
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The Curious Case of Nativis, The Forsaken Nobel Prize Winner and the Ghost of Jacques Benveniste

June 10, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
The Curious Case of Nativis, The Forsaken Nobel Prize Winner and the Ghost of Jacques Benveniste

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...
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The Magnetic Therapy Water Wand: A Debunking from History

June 8, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
The Magnetic Therapy Water Wand: A Debunking from History

The recent rain has ensured the last sniffles of hayfever have subsided. It has been a bad few days and the antihistamines may have made things a little more comfortable – but it is the natural cure of a downpour that has really done the trick. I know that many people have been suffering over...
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Fossilised Medicine

June 1, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Fossilised Medicine

This weekend, the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths will be holding their AGM. On the same day, they will be offering their members some Continuing Professional Development with a course on the ‘healing potential’ of fossils. According to Martine Mercy, who will be giving the course, fossils represent “powerful healing from the dawn of time” and...
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Find Your Dr Evan Harris and Vote For Them

May 5, 2010
By Le Canard Noir

Tomorrow we will be voting. If I lived a few hundred yards North, just over the river, I could cast my vote for Dr Evan Harris. I envy my neighbours. They have a real choice  in candidate and their vote will count.  The constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon is a marginal where it is not clear cut...
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Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health Closes

April 30, 2010
By Le Canard Noir

As predicted last week, Prince Charles Charity has closed amid claims of fraud, money laundering and misuse of charity status. Their statement reads. 30 April 2010 The Trustees of The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health have decided to close the charity. Whilst the closure has been planned for many months and is part of an agreed strategy,...
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Prince of Wales Charity Faces Imminent Closure

April 20, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Prince of Wales Charity Faces Imminent Closure

The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health has just a few more days to submit its accounts for 2008 before it risks the near certainty of delisting as a charity. According to the Charity Commission web site, the accounts are now 171 days overdue. Charities have ten months to submit their Annual Return. After this time,...
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