Fooling Nature: How the Saatchi Bill Will Harm Medical Innovation
Lord Saatchi is proclaiming his consultation into the new Medical Innovations Bill a resounding success with “a staggering 18,655 people” supporting his bill and “fewer than 100 […]
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The Saatchi Bill: A Quacks’ Charter
Maurice Saatchi, the former advertising businessman and Tory peer, has introduced a Bill to parliament designed to encourage medical innovation. After the death of his […]
Ten Reasons why the Society of Homeopaths Should not Receive PSA Accreditation
The Society of Homeopaths are applying to become accredited as a voluntary professional register with the Professional Standards Authority. Should the PSA approve their application, it […]
William Alderson Hung Out to Dry by Homeopaths
The desire for homeopaths to obtain state-recognised legitimacy has been tearing the trade apart for a decade or more. On one side are those with ambitions to […]
Society of Homeopaths Seeks Accreditation from the Professional Standards Authority
Health regulators do an important thing: protect the public from the potential risks that health care providers and their practices pose to their clients. Risks […]
Steiner Schools and Risk Factors for Child Abuse
When you lead children to feel the beauty of sunrise and sunset, to be sensitive to the beauty of flowers and to the majesty of […]
FDA Raises Serious Concerns About UK’s Nelsons Homeopathics
Nelsons, UK manufacturers of such products as Bach Rescue Remedies, and a range of Homeopathic sugar pills, such as Teetha, have been inspected by the […]
MHRA accused of “clothing naked quackery”
Last Wednesday, I gave a talk at the newly formed Coventry Skeptics in the Pub on the ‘Persistence of Delusion’ – why some alternative medicines […]
Margaret Coats to join Zombie Regulator, Ofquack.
I first wrote about Ofquack, or the Complementary and Natural Health Council, during its formation in early 2008. I predicted it would not survive – […]
Quacks Denounce ASA as Incompetent and Threatening
Last week I reported that a top quack delegation was visiting the Advertising Standards Authority to tell them that they were being very mean to […]