Posts Tagged ‘ boots the chemist ’

Dispensing with Homeopathy: A Proposal

February 3, 2010
By Le Canard Noir
Dispensing with Homeopathy: A Proposal

Let’s run with an idea and see where it goes. The 10:23 campaign has now had loads of publicity and Boots have failed to address any of the central concerns: mainly, that homeopathy is a daft pseudoscience. Moreover, the pharmacy profession and the drugs regulator have remained silent. In all likelihood, Boots will not withdraw...
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Boots Giving Away Worthless Therapies

August 4, 2009
By Le Canard Noir
Boots Giving Away Worthless Therapies

Thanks to Lee Warren, the Purple Magician, who saw this in King’s Cross, London. Trust Boots to be complete idiots. Double Idiots.
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The Dilemma of Finding Reliable Health Advice Online

March 7, 2007
By Le Canard Noir
The Dilemma of Finding Reliable Health Advice Online

A press release today from the Economic and Social Research Council talks about recent research on how the public evaluates the information on health websites. The concluding message is simple: When searching for health advice online, consumers often reject websites with high quality medical information in favour of those with a human touch. This is not...
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Boots the Quack

August 29, 2006
By Le Canard Noir
Boots the Quack

I have recently been accused of working for the ‘drug industry’ and just picking on the ‘little guys’ who are using gentle, more human, and less capitalist healing methods. Well, as I say in my definition of quackery, quack thinking can come from all quarters and all sides of the orthodox/alternative medicine camps. ‘Big Pharma’...
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