It has come to my attention that, this autumn, I will become a father for the second time. We have been very fortunate in that we are not spring chickens and achieving this feat has been quite straightforward. A near 100% hit rate.
For many couples, it is not so easy. Getting pregnant can take...
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This time, Jayney Goddard, who calls herself the President of The Complementary Medical Association, is calling on homeopaths and other quacks to provide evidence for her to take to the ASA that they are being very mean to them.
She has been circulating an email asking for evidence that the ASA has really hurt the...
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You might have thought by now that homeopaths would have understood that one of the main reasons they are constantly criticised is that they make claims that their sugar pills can treat or prevent life threatening illnesses when there is no sensible reason to think this is true. This puts lives at risk. If...
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As we were all watching the Tiswas Select Committee questioning the Murdochs, the government were letting out press releases saying they were to hand over a billion pounds of NHS services to private companies and charities.
The announcements say that patients will be given a “wider choice of providers” for some services and that “the...
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This evening, a gathering of aging rockers, are performing for a fundraising event aimed at helping children with cancer.
The Sunflower Jam is an annual event that is being held this year at the Royal Albert Hall as the Superjam 2011. Live on stage will be rock legends such as Rick Wakeman and Deep Purple....
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Look what just appeared in my inbox.
It a communication that appears to have gone out to most homeopaths in the UK, both medically trained and lay, about the current complaints against homeopaths being considered by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The ASA have a large number of complaints to deal with as a direct...
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I do not have a crystal ball. And I have no idea how the current farcical reorganisation of the NHS will end up.
But last September, I was worrying that the emphasis on competition would allow GP consortia to commission quack services – if there is patient demand then there appeared to be little...
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This morning I took part in a debate on the Phil Gayle show on BBC Radio Oxford as part of Homeopathic Awareness Week.
You can listen to the debate here:
Phil Gayle Show: Debate at 1:46:46
I am always in two minds whether to take part in these things. It is easy for a homeopath to ambush...
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Given that it is Homeopathy Awareness Week again, I thought it would be worth exploring how Homeopaths mislead us about science and evidence.
So, from that site of uniformly misleading health advice, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, we learn that,
Homeopathy has a ‘clinically relevant’ effect way beyond placebo
Critics have always dismissed homeopathy as offering nothing...
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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 the NHS.
They claim that ‘5 element acupuncture’ has been shown to be effective with people suffering from ‘unexplained symptoms’....
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MP David Tredinnick has tabled an Early Day Motion for MPs to sign in support of The Homeopathic Research Institutes campaign to promote more research into homeopathy.
I have already spelled out in some detail why such research would be deeply unethical: firstly, we already know with a very high degree of certainty that homeopathy...
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Last week, we saw the “first national conference” of the College of Medicine – the organisation that has arisen from the ashes of Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health. The Foundation closed last year after it failed to provide its accounts after an employee ran off with all the money.
The College of Medicine appears...
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