Posts Tagged ‘ fun ’

be4 + afta

November 9, 2007
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be4 + afta

I have added new analytical debunking capability to the quackometer by employing the subtle subversive humour of the lolcats. For each of the current top 10 web sites that you have been testing with the quackometer, I am providing a link to a lolcats version of the web site. For example, take this site (Lilias Curtin: body detoxification), and it gets turned into this, As you can plainly see, after the lolinator has done its work, there is no further need to spend countless hours checking references and claims in order to debunk the claims of quacks. I am also rather hoping that, by providing links, google will find the lolinated version of the site and rank it above the original in google searches. One can but hope. I...

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Does Integrated Medicine Make Sense?
Great Hall, Dartington, Devon
I will be debating the role of Integrated Medicine with Simon Mills from the College of Medicine, Sarah Wollaston MP for Totnes, and Becky Simpson who used CAM when being treated for cancer.

Saturday 26 May, 2012. 6.00pm

A History of West Country Quacks & Rise of Evidence Based Medicine
Plymouth Skeptics in the Pub
The West Country, particularly in Bath, saw some the greatest quacks and also the greatest advances in evidence-based medicine. I will talk about how the two approaches fought each other in the 18th and 19th Century.

Tuesday, June 19 2012 at 7:00PM

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