A criticism often levied at the quackometer is that it is very broad brush. Fair enough. It is often quite general in what it says, but it is only a bit a web script after all. The quackometer is intended to be a spring board into the exploration of health claims. Improvements in the new year should make this easier. However, the central premise behind the quackometer is that when someone uses words like ‘vibration’, ‘energy’ or ‘quantum’ in the context of a health claim, then almost invariably pseudoscience is being used. And, as the black duck would say, …it is full of scientific jargon that is out of place and probably doesn’t know the meaning of any of the terms. So, is this a reasonable statement to make?...
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