Jeanette Winterson: Art and ‘Misrepresentations’
Healing fools. The seemingly miraculous ability of our bodies to naturally fight and recover from illness, and our inquisitive brains that are eager to seek […]
Month: November 2007
Massively Distracting, Cruelly Deceiving Quackery
On the eve of the Society of Homeopaths’ symposium in London on homeopathy and AIDS, the SoH issue a press release. It is a statement […]
Winterson/Goldacre Head-to-Head in the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail have re-printed the Guardian’s homeopathic spat between Jeanette Winterson and Ben Goldacre. Both articles (trimmed down) are now head-to-head. But not all […]
Jeanette Winterson in Blistering Attack on Homeopathy
Yesterday, prize winning author, Jeanette Winterson, delivered a devastating blow to supporters of homeopathy by calling for ‘better regulation’ of the profession and for the […]
Exradia: Angels or Demons?
Last June, I wrote about emerging company, Exradia, and their attempts to sell a magic mobile phone battery to the major handset manufacturers, such as […]
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 […]
Dr Elaine Weatherley-Jones: You and Yours and ME
Radio 4’s You and Yours programme has been running a series on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. Today saw the last in the series and concentrated on […]
The Quack Language Instinct
Put down your sweaty iPod Touch and slide your fingers over the downy back of the Quackometer as it makes its debut in the funky […]
The Magic Watergate Scandal
I am officially bored by the Society of Homeopaths. But just when I thought it could not get worse, that cheeky monkey Gimpy just had […]