Mistletoe and Cancer
Merry Christmas! Last Christmas, we looked at the quackery surrounding myrrh. This year, it is time for me to have little whine about mistletoe. Christmas […]
Year: 2008
An Academic Responds to the Homeopathy Challenge
After two weeks of silence from ten UK academic homeopaths, I get a response to my recent challenge. The challenge was simple: can any of […]
The Society of Homeopaths: The Failure of Self Regulation
The Adverting Standards Authority has today found that a homeopath advertised their asthma clinic for kids by making untruthful, unsubstantiated and irresponsible claims. Archway House […]
Julian Graves: Not Just Nuts – Dangerously Irresponsible
So. Today. I had a quite jaw dropping conversation in my local branch of Julian Graves. For my American readers, Julian Graves is a shop […]
Neutrahealth in Trouble
In the last few days, vitamin pill company Neutrahealth (NUT.L), has seen a precipitous drop in its share price. Its investors look like they believe […]
How Can You Criticise Homeopathy When You Have Never Studied It?
Anyone who has ever entered into a debate with a homeopathy about the nature of their trade will have sooner or later bumped into this […]
Kaloba Cold Cure: How the MHRA condones quackery
The newspapers today were delighting in reporting that a new cold treatment was being made available to us in Britian. Kaloba is an extract of […]
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Malaria?
Dr* T on his Thinking is Dangerous blog reports that Helios appear to have stopped selling their Malaria nosodes for the homeopathic prevention of Malaria. […]
The Epiphenomena of Quackery
Sometimes it can be hard to tell science from pseudoscience. On the surface, both can look the same. What is remarkable is how deep this […]
Write to Your MP about our Libel Laws
George Monbiot writes in today’s Guardian about the shame of our libel laws in the UK. The Rath case highlights the basic injustice of such […]