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BBC Devon Promotes Dangerously Deluded HIV Homeopaths in Africa

Andy Lewis — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:41 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:31 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:37:34 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:09:48 +0000

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?

Andy Lewis — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:41:28 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:55:10 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:34:11 +0000

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.

Andy Lewis — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:09:55 +0000

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

Andy Lewis — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:30:33 +0000

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.

Andy Lewis — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:43:34 +0000

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…