More ill-considered tosh from our national broadcaster. This time it’s biodynamic farming. Sitting out on the bonkers fringes of the organic farming movement squats another of Rudolph Steiner’s bastard offspring birthed at a lecture series in 1924. [Follow the link and…
Write to Your MP about NHS Choices
by Andy Lewis • • 1 Comment
Today’s Guardian has revealed the extraordinary story of how the Department of Health corrupted information on the NHS Choices web site to make it more pleasing to homeopaths and the Prince of Wales. The story was uncovered by a Freedom of Information request…
Homeopathic Quality Control – It’s Nonexistent
by Andy Lewis • • 51 Comments
Christopher Brookmyre’s short story place b., contained in his anthology, Jaggy Splinters, includes a rather amusing story about how a journalist goes undercover to sting the fictitious NHS Hospital, the Edinburgh and Lothian Homeopathic Hospital. What would happen if there was…
Incurable stupidity and irresponsibility at WDDTY
by Andy Lewis • • 178 Comments
Today, the latest version of What Doctors Don’t Tell you goes on sale in WHSMiths, Waitrose, Sainsbury and many other high street locations. The February issue makes some of its most startling and irrersponsible claims yet. The front cover proclaims…
Falsely balanced or balanced by falsity?
by Simon Baker • • 20 Comments
This is a guest post from vet, Simon Baker. It is timely for me as last week I turned down the offer of being interviewed by the BBC on a subject concerning quackery. I knew who I was ‘up against’…
Why Does the MHRA Not Close Down these Homeopaths?
by Andy Lewis • • 68 Comments
BBC South West have again produced an excellent investigation into the practices of homoeopath,s this time focusing on the trade in sugar pills sold as vaccines for children. Given the alarming number of cases of Whooping Cough in the region, and the low vaccine…
Steiner Academy Bristol, A Challenge: Be Open With Parents
by Andy Lewis • • 244 Comments
The proposed Steiner School in Bristol was reported yesterday to have attracted ‘huge interest’ from prospective parents. They say 850 people have expressed an interest in joining the school when it is finally given government money to go ahead. If…
Tory Free Schools Plot to Spin Away the Racism of Steiner Schools.
by Andy Lewis • • 31 Comments
Last year, I wrote to my local MP, Lib Dem Tessa Munt, to raise concerns that the nearby opening of a state funded Steiner School raised a number of issues. Most importantly, that Steiner Schools are not open about the…
2013 Will See the End of NHS Homeopathy Hospitals in England.
by Andy Lewis • • 84 Comments
On the 7th of January 2013, the Cotham Hill site of the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital will close and the staff will move to a new NHS development, the South Bristol Community Hospital. A report into the move states that the homeopathy…
Steiner Schools Criticise Mainstream Schools’ stance on ‘Father Christmas’
by Andy Lewis •
A spokesperson for the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship in the UK has today warned that mainstream schools could be covertly teaching occult and mystical philosophies to school children. Trevor Teflon, a Steiner School headmaster said, “We are worried that the…
Will Any Homeopath Say Homeopathy is no Substitute for Radiotherapy?
by Andy Lewis •
The story is tragic. A young mother with a child with cancer, fearing that radiotherapy will do more harm than good, and believing homeopathy and other natural cures give her child the best chance, fleas to escape a court ordering…
How Steiner Schools Justify their Occult Pedagogy.
by Andy Lewis •
Rudolf Steiner was very clear to his teachers. Young children were incapable of abstract reasoning until they were 14 and their “astral body” had incarnated. Learning to read was bad for a child’s development until adult teeth had appeared and…
