“Hands-off” Healing of Hedgehogs
Quackery is often accompanied with grand associations with complex science, the harder the better. Usually, quantum theory is the science of choice: it has plenty […]
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The Mineral-Depleted Food Scandal
The news (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) has been full of reports about how our food in Britain is becoming less nutritious and that it […]
UK Hospital HR Manager in ‘Near Death Experience’
Let’s recap – ‘Cellular Memory’ – the alleged ability for every cell to retain some sort of energy memory about us that can get passed […]
‘Cellular Memory’ Fails Memory Test
After having an argument on a message board about whether Cellular Memory could really exist (see last post), I was offered that the following expert […]
Heart Transplants and ‘Cellular Memory’
Once again, the bonkers story of how organ transplant patients aquire the behavioural characteristics of their donors has cropped up in the more gullible papers. […]
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What is Quackery?
Definitions are hard. You could argue that one person’s quack is another’s health professional. I do not want to limit the definition to just those […]
The Science of Quackometrics
So, how does the Quackometer work? The quackometer counts words in web pages that quacks tend to use. The more quack words, the more quackery […]
What is the Quackometer?
The quackometer is an experiment to see if it is easy to spot quack web sites just from the language they use. The idea for […]