Pulling My Hair Out
or, The Role of Mineral Hair Analysis in the Sale of Food Supplements initially posted on Holford Watch. Patrick Holford has set up a charity. […]
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Teachers’ Union Demand Meteorite Shields For Schools
Quackery thrives on fear. Cancer, infection and injury are rightly things to be concerned about. Despite the near doubling of our expected life span in […]
Google ‘Sees no Evil’
Once upon a time, back in the olden days, that is, before 1996 or thereabouts, your typical quack was faced with a big problem. Just […]
Watch Holford Watch
Just to let you know that I am proud to be able to contibute a little to a new blog, “Holford Watch”, a site about […]
Homoeopathic Clothing Range
Le Canard Noir is in development with a new range of complementary and alternative clothing. A sneak peak is now available for a new ‘homoeopathic […]
Tiny Magnets, Tiny Minds
Just when I thought the Daily Mail was reducing the number of stupid health stories that it was publishing, it comes up with a classic. […]
Beauty and the Quack
Quackery is not just found in ‘alternative’ medicine and the high street homeopathic practice. Quackery exists wherever claims for health benefits are made that do […]
Hideous Quackery?
It pains me to write this, but I have a nasty feeling that Kate Winslet might have been to visit a quack. I guess I […]
The Dilemma of Finding Reliable Health Advice Online
A press release today from the Economic and Social Research Council talks about recent research on how the public evaluates the information on health websites. […]
Holfords and Halfords
I’m going to stick my neck out here. I could be horribly wrong. But that is science; come up with a hypothesis, see if it […]