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Chiropractors Try to Silence Simon Singh
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:29:00 +0000
Hot on the heals of New Zealand Chiropractors trying to silence David Colquhoun and the The New Zealand Medical Journal, we learn today in the Telegraph that the British Chiropractic Association has issued a writ against Simon Singh for an article he wrote in the Guardian entitled Beware the Spinal Trap. 'Dr' Antoni Jakubowski of the BCA said that this was not a decision they were taking lightly.
They are Bone Doctors, Aren't They?
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:55:00 +0000
Chiropractors have an air of respectability about them. They style themselves, 'Doctor'. They wear white coats and have brass plaques outside their offices with lots of letters after their name. My friends look at be puzzled when I say they are quacks. But that is what the evidence says. Their practice is founded on strange ideas about mysterious things called 'subluxions' and pseudoscientific
Andy Burman Resigns From Ofquack
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:00 +0000
Andy Burman, Chief Executive of the British Dietetic Association, appears to have resigned his post from the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack). This news follows my recent criticism on this site of the BDA for not doing enough to educate the public about the difference between pseudoscientific Nutritional Therapists (as to be 'regulated' by Ofquack) and professionally
Desperate Remedies
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:42:00 +0000
Homeopathy on the NHS has nearly vanished. We see prescriptions have halved in the past two years and one of the last five hospitals has been confirmed to close. This is as it should be. The last vestigial remnants of nineteenth century quackery in the state health care system are being dropped from the tax payers burden. There is nothing unsurprising here. It is the natural result of an
Qu-Chi Coup at the Telegraph
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:49:00 +0000
In a shocking move the Daily Telegraph has got rid of its Business Editor, and subsequently the other Financial and City columnists have left. In the future, its business coverage will be written by their sports, arts and news desk staff and will not undergo thorough and knowledgeable editing. Actually, this is not true. There would be riots on the 0720 commuter train from Surbiton. What is true,
That's It for Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital
Healing the Wounds of Alternative Medicine
Vanessa Feltz and Other Mangy Foxes
Alleged Victim of Oxford Nutritionist 'Detox Diet' wins £810,000
The "New Fundamentalism": Why Lionel Milgrom is Plain Wrong (Again)
What's Behind the Green Door? More Unorthodox Thoughts from Glastonbury
Dispatches from the Sceptic Fields
£10,000 if you can show homeopathy works
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