The quackometer is a project based around the automation of debunking quack medicine on the web. The web is full of pages supporting dubious medical claims and inflated capabilities for cures. The freedom that the web gives us to express our views, entertain and do business also gives quacks a way to make a living by promoting nonsense treatments to unsuspecting people.
Spotting these web sites appears to be easy when you know what to look out for. If it is that easy, can the process be automated? The quackometer project intends to find out.
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What the Steiner Waldorf School Movement did not want you to read.
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:54:44 +0000
Earlier this month, Grégoire Perra was finally acquitted in a French court after the Federation of Waldorf Steiner Schools in France decided to sue Grégoire Perra, a former Steiner teacher, for publishing a critique of the schools and the anthroposophy movement. The…
William Alderson Hung Out to Dry by Homeopaths
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:40:53 +0000
The desire for homeopaths to obtain state-recognised legitimacy has been tearing the trade apart for a decade or more. On one side are those with ambitions to be seen as mainstream and respectable. On the other side, those that want to remain…
BBC Devon Promotes Dangerously Deluded HIV Homeopaths in Africa
Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:41 +0000
Last week, BBC London broadcast a dreadful programme promoting an animal chiropractor despite the fact that there is no good evidence chiropractic is of any use on animals and that chiropractors can only work with animals under very tightly defined…
BBC London 94.9 Barking Hour Lives Up to its Name
Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:31 +0000
Yesterday, on BBC London radio, Joanne Good and Anna Webb used their Barking Hour show to mislead listeners about how chiropractic, homeopathy and kiniesiology can help pets with serious illnesses. Her guest on the show was a McTimoney chiropractor by the…
Society of Homeopaths Seeks Accreditation from the Professional Standards Authority
Wed, 08 May 2013 22:37:34 +0000
Health regulators do an important thing: protect the public from the potential risks that health care providers and their practices pose to their clients. Risks cannot be avoided in health care. For any treatment that will have effects, there is…
Steiner Schools, Vaccination and Measles Outbreaks
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