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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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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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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There are a number of differences between the practices of medicine and the pseudo-medicines, such as homeopathy, acupuncture and herbalism.
One of the most important is the practitioners attitude to a treatment’s safety and efficacy. Within the world of alternative medicine, efficacy and safety is axiomatic. That is, practitioners believe in the power of their...
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