Year: 2009
Scepticism is the New Rock’n’Roll
Last night we held the first evening of the Oxford branch of Skeptics in the Pub. Come 6.15 and the bar we had booked was […]
There Goes My Knighthood
Prince Charles’ company, Duchy Originals, has today been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to stop making misleading and untruthful claims in its advertising and […]
A quickly bashed out manifesto, if I were to have such a thing
Last night, a friend who I have not seen for a little while, asked me an important question. She was well aware of my blogging […]
The Modern Face of Scientific Homeopathy
Tonight, on BBC2, we were treated to Professor Regan’s Medicine Cabinet, where we were walked through the vast amount of quackery that we can find […]
Homeopaths Attempt to Rubbish Ernst and Singh with Dismal Critique
The stillborn homeopathy campaign, Homeopathy Worked for Me, that attempted to collect 250,000 signatures but managed just a few percent of that, has now resorted […]
Nutritional Therapists Fail to Join Ofquack
The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, Ofquack, is having an appalling start to its life. Needing 10,000 people to join its register in the first […]
Homeopathy Does Not Cause Side Effects in Cancer Patients
The Cochrane Library has published a new review of the effects of homeopathy on cancer patients**. Its conclusion is that “there is limited evidence that […]
Quackometer Upgrade
Some of the quackometer functionality has not been working too well over the past few months. The Am I a Quack or Not? function was […]
Fraud In Chinese Medicine
Chinese Herbal Medicine could be seen as the acceptable side of alternative medicine. It does not suffer from the utter implausibility of homeopathy, nor does […]