That’s It for Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital
Reported today in Pulse, Campaigners look to have lost their fight to save a leading homeopathic hospital, in a landmark case that accelerates the treatment’s […]
Articles by Andy L
Healing the Wounds of Alternative Medicine
It has not been a good few weeks to be a supporter of alternative medicine. We have seen reports that GP prescriptions of homeopathic remedies […]
Vanessa Feltz and Other Mangy Foxes
This morning on Vanessa Feltz’s BBC Radio London show, the discussion was about London’s urban foxes. Nothing is more likely to split opinions in the […]
Alleged Victim of Oxford Nutritionist ‘Detox Diet’ wins £810,000
Barbara Nash is a nutritionist based near Oxford. Dawn Page was overweight and sought the advice of Nash. It is alleged she was put on […]
The “New Fundamentalism”: Why Lionel Milgrom is Plain Wrong (Again)
Bafflegab – the multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation – is word that ought […]
What’s Behind the Green Door? More Unorthodox Thoughts from Glastonbury
It’s Sunday, day three at Glastonbury, the world’s greatest rap music festival, and the seagulls are now circling the farm in their thousands. Maybe, it […]
Dispatches from the Sceptic Fields
It’s Shakin’ Stevens o’clock here at Glastonbury. Lunchtime. Saturday, as we emerge from the first full day of hard core mud action. It’s not my […]
£10,000 if you can show homeopathy works
Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh have issued a challenge to homeopaths: show the world your evidence that homeopathy is effective for any single condition. After […]
Sip Drink: Unnatural, Unethical, Farcical
If you were a dodgy plumber or made misleading double glazing adverts, you could expect Trading Standards to fine you and the BBC to make […]
Bravewell and the Prince
Quackery in the UK has friends in the highest places. Despite constitutional restrictions on the monarch’s role in politics, our heir to the throne, Prince […]