The Persistence of Delusion When? Thursday, October 21 at 8:00PMDownload iCalendar file (e.g. import to Outlook or Google Calendar) Where?The Bongo Club37 Holyrood RoadEdinburghEH8 8BA Who?Andy LewisWhat’s the talk about? The late eighteenth centu… [read more…]
Misinformation about complementary and alternative therapies is rifeon the Internet, in newspapers and magazines and on the high street and this misinformation misleads the public. It is particularlyimportant that the public have accurate informat… [read more…]
Science is a human activity. And as such, it is subject to the full range of fallibilities of thought and action that people are capable of. Within science you will find sloppy and wishful thinking, error and even fraud. But science, rather uniquely, has methods designed explicitly to minimise human biases, reduce error and correct mistakes when they are found. It is this inherent error correction that makes science a [read more…]
After yesterdays complaint to the ASA regarding this ad, a complaint to the Society of Homeopaths really ought to be the only thing a concerned citizen could do. William Alderson is Chair and Treasurer of HMC21. He is also a Director of the Societ… [read more…]
This month’s New Statesman (Oct 2010) carries a full page ad for the homeopathy propaganda group H:MC21. It was contained with a supplement about Social Care. Christine Odone did not like the advert. She wrote about it in the Telegraph yesterday. … [read more…]
The following is the latest explanation as to why Benneth was allowed to talk at Cambridge http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1074586;jsessionid=1CC5B0A9560E74B2FA93747DB5F9655D?format=mp3&quality=high Statement ——— The invitation to this speaker to… [read more…]
Dear Dr Andy Lewis, Thank you for contacting me about government support for science, technology and engineering.Over the next few weeks and months, major decisions will be made on government spending priorities as part of a wider move to stabilis… [read more…]
From the very first decades of homeopathy’s existence in the early 19th Century, mainstream scientists have dismissed its claims for one simple reason: the extremely dilute nature of the remedies. As Oliver Wendell Holmes remarked in 1842 “So much ridicule has been thrown upon the pretended powers of the minute doses”. Today’s modern understanding of the atomic nature of matter makes the homeopathic principle of dilution appear nonsensical. Many remedies [read more…]
On the 1st of October, a rather unusual talk was held at the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, entitled “The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy”. The talk was at the invite of Nobel laureate Brian Josephson and was to be given by a chap named John Benneth. Josephson is a known supporter of parapsychology, telepathy and homeopathy. Now Benneth may well be known to critics of homeopathy as he is [read more…]
The Society of Homeopath’s response to the latest BBC revelations was entirely predictable. The BBC investigation uncovered how homeopaths appear to be routinely offering their sugar pills as an alternative to childhood vaccinations such as MMR. Such unethical and unthinking behaviour can only lead to children being exposed to potentially dangerous infections. Doctors appeared to have been shocked by these findings. But they should not have been. Antagonistic beliefs towards [read more…]
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