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 […]
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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 […]
Floating Fenzian in the Dragons’ Den
Just a day after I write about Dr James Colthurst and the Fenzian device (see Turning A Pint of Tea Leaves into Pure Gold), The […]
Welcome to the Placebo Store.
The advert begins… I’m Jen. I am a mommy. It’s what I love. It’s my job to make owies go away. Whether it’s a kiss […]
Turning A Pint of Tea Leaves into Pure Gold
Dr James Colthurst and the Fenzian Machine No, I haven’t gone all Daily Express on you. There is a genuine Lady Di connection here. But […]