You are Taking Part in a Randomised Controlled Trial Right Now
Double Blind Randomised Controlled Trials (DBRCTs) are not the preserve of medical science. Increasingly, corporations are using them to enter into a new world of […]
Year: 2008
Google Advertises Busted Triamazon Cancer Cure
After yesterday’s raids by the MHRA on suspect dodgy pill sellers and their ‘Internet Day of Action’, perhaps one of the largest profiteers from such […]
Triamazon Cancer Pill Scam Busted
You know, I do not believe that most of the people that feature on this site are fraudsters. No, the truth is far worse than […]
Joseph and Andrew Obi: International Men of Mystery
So, another vague and preposterous legal threat and my web hosts have caved like bullied ginger children. Pages have been taken down and then immediately […]
More Threats to the Quackometer
Another page or two goes missing. You can read more about this here: I’m not sure that’s ethical and here:Legal threats and extortion to suppress […]
Natural Disasters, Corporate Nutrition and the Confusopoly of Diet
The louder a food screams ‘natural’ or ‘healthy’ at you, the further you should run. That is the somewhat counter-intuitive message of Michael Pollan’s essay, […]
The Myths of Patrick Holford
Bertrand Russel said, What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often […]
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Professor Joan Higgins, Chair of the Federal Working Group on Complementary Therapies, is in charge of setting up the Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack). From April, […]
Is Statutory Self-Regulation the Answer for Homeopathy?
The ambush by the Prince of Wales on the various factions of Alternative Medicine by announcing the set up of the Natural Healthcare Council, Ofquack, […]
“Nothing Acts as Well as FairDeal Homeopathy”
It looks like the campaign to clean up homeopathy is having effects! A new supplier of homeopathic remedies appears to have entered the market with […]