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Hi again Andy

I still want to know why my website, http://www.keyhypnotherapy.co.uk , is scoring 10 on the quackometer. I have responded to your questions but you have not yet let me know what is unacceptable.

It is important to me that I do not mislead people and therefore I am asking for your help and advice. If you cannot, in all honesty, find real flaws in the information on my website, then it is incumbent upon you as a scientist to acknowledge that the quackometer is not always a reliable measure of quackery.

If you can find anything that is truly objectionable I will review it and change it as appropriate.

I really do applaud what you are trying to do but it distresses me that I still seem to fall into the 10 canard category.

Please do respond to this email.

Yours, with bated breath,

Jenny

So the British medical journal did a study on the Alexander technique and showed that it was effective for back pain in the majority of cases. Your website bases its concusion on the terms presented on one specific website, as they are used “out of place”.

Do you see the hypocrisy in your methodology?

Anyway, I will take the peer reviewed journal’s opinion over your own.

Im sure the big pharmaceutical companies love you!

People like you are always so quick to judge others. Why anyone should EVER hold any stock in what YOU have to say? I will pray for you. I’m sorry… I forgot. You probably don’t believe in that either. I will pary anyway.

Myles

Myles, you made my day. 😀

Your FIRST comment is accusing Andy about “being quick to judge others”? Hilarious.

OK, go on praying.
For me too, if you will.

Daniel

To wonder a little from the path of quackery for people it would be interesting if you would take a look at BARF, a growing trend in pet nutritien, see http://www.barfworld.com/html/barf_diet/barfdiet_reallysaybarf.shtml

Dear Andy

I claim that hypnotherapy can be immensely helpful in dealing with the underlying emotional issues that may exacerbate physical symptoms. Presumably you will agree that an asthma attack can be triggered by anxiety and distress? If clients learn techniques to lessen their anxiety and calm their breathing and also to deal with the underlying triggers for fearful feelings, they empower themselves to manage their condition alongside treatment from GP or hospital doctors.

I also said that it is a shame there has not been any quality research to back up my claims and that I would be more than willing to enter into a research programme should the opportunity present itself. I have begun asking clients to complete the NHS HPQ9 form before, after and 6 months down the line to audit the efficacy of my work. As a single handed practitioner it will take some time to collate sufficient information though I am encouraging other hypnotherapists to do this as well.

I make no unreasonable claims and clients understand that I am a facilitator who can enable them to work toward the changes they desire. I feel a real responsibility to clients and could not continue if I failed to see a high response rate. All I can do is work with the evidence my experience has supplied and this is undeniably anecdotal until some serious research has been done.

Perhaps I just have to bite on the bullet and accept my 10 canards until someone is willing to fund some good research and hypnotherapy is fully integrated into the NHS.

I will stop hassling you now as I really do admire what you are doing.

Yours just a tiny bit miffed but resigned

Jenny

More of same, a critical site of self importance with little intent beyond suppression of opinions it disagrees with. Read the results of Quackwatch.com in the US, it didn’t end well for the proponent of that site.

Disagreeing with Homeopathy is neither here nor there in the scheme of things. Most of allopathic medicine, in counterpoint, merely ameliorates symptoms in chronic conditions. Cures for cancer are the exceptions rather than the rule. Much vaunted “cures” in medicine are found, over time, to be less than helpful in so many cases. The number of drugs withdrawn after gross side effects were “discovered” by “scientists” tends to suggest not all is in order in the world of medicine. Most who practice medicine are aware of the art of being a physician, it isn’t all science…. far from it.

The Quackometer clearly doesn’t fare well, inter alia, for hypnotists, this isn’t surprising. Those hypnotists who submit their sites to assessment by quackometer won’t be satisfied with the results. Any clinical method that doesn’t pass muster with the authority of the quackometer will be most unlikely to be approved. Just accept it for what it is. The author of Quackometer has his opinion and that is that. The method is opinion not science. Ironic really! Trust your patients and clients, if your results are good why worry about approval of petty authorities.

Keeping libel laws out of science…why? If science is so packed full of truth why worry about libel laws? The truth here is that proponents of sites, such as this one, fear that they may one day be called to defend what isn’t so easy in truth to defend. One, fortunately, doesn’t need to fear keeping libel laws out of science, none of those who propose such an idea have much chance of the law changing; however they may wish it.

My displeasure with this site is its mean spiritedness and self-righteousness. My wife died from a severe case of breast cancer, I saw firsthand the positive effects of hypnosis in ameliorating severe pain. For me those who set themselves up as an “authority” should be careful not to close doors to alternatives however distasteful to their palate.

Out of alternatives come new ways to understand and treat disease. Suppression of other opinions by ridicule isn’t beneficial.

Defunding alternative healing from the NHS will in the long run have unintended consequences, such as collapse of the whole system already creaking at the seams. Attacking alternative methods might seem a good idea, though politically naïve, such defunding may create a constituency of opponents you don’t need if you wish the NHS to survive.

Anger is the motivation behind this site, beware anger can and does lead to pathology for those who live by it and indulge in it. My wife’s passing made me angry and I was duly punished with IBS, later controlled not by allopathic medicine but by natural healing.

Wonderfully well said Mr Gray. I’m so sorry about your wife – I wish you good things in the future, you seem a kind and thoughtful man.

Mr. Lewis,
I haven’t read enough of your personal quackery to see how much research or personal experience you’ve had with alternative, complementary, or holistic medicine. As a published neuroscientist (my work was funded by the almighty NIH) I am sick and tired of ignoramouses (don’t care if it’s not a word) such as yourself taking up precious webspace. Let people do their own research and educate themselves. Unfortunately some of your previous respondents are correct! Big Pharma loves you and you are probably employed by them, maybe you could tell us more about why you are so sure of big pharma because I’m stuck at Children’s Hospital watching my daughter suffer due to a poison filled vaccine that gave her a disease that I had to diagnose as her physician had no idea and was too busy catering to his “drug dealers” to even refer her. Also, if you need to read up on Einstein and Newton as I don’t believe you understand what “psudoscience” is. Adele

Dear Mr Andy Lewis:

1. Please answer Jenny Lineham.

2. The fact that no one has taken the Quackery Test is proof that no “quacks” exist. Listen to this COURT PROOF:

In 1963 the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) formed its Committee on Quackery (“Committee”). The Committee worked diligently to eliminate chiropractic. A primary method to achieve this goal was to make it unethical for American medical physicians to professionally associate with American chiropractors. Under former Principle 3, it was unethical for American medical physicians to associate with “unscientific practitioners.” In 1966, the AMA’s House of Delegates passed a resolution labelling chiropractic an unscientific cult.

On September 25, 1987, U.S. Federal Judge Getzendanner issued AN opinion that the AMA violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and that it had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade “to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession.” (Wilk v. American Medical Ass’n, 671 F. Supp. 1465, N.D. Ill. 1987). The Court issued a permanent injunction against the AMA.

Both sides cross-appealed, and the district court’s decision was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on February 7, 1990 (Wilk v. American Medical Ass’n, 895 F.2d 352, 7th Cir. 1990). http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/895/895.F2d.352.87-2777.87-2672.html

The AMA petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court three times, but each time the Court denied certiorari (on June 11, August 13, and November 26, 1990).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk_v._American_Medical_Association

The AMA, to this day, remains under the 1987 permanent injunction.

Please feel free to contact me here: [email protected]
http://www.emccray.com; http://www.twitter.com/emanuelmccray; and
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1392371216

Keep up the good work Andy. Hopefully one day Governments will do something about all this homeopathy rubbish. Strict controls need to be put into place and only certain treatments should be approved. Herbal treatments at least have a basis in reality but ground up stones and fossils should be outlawed along with the bad, biased medical advice these Homeopaths seem to provide along with their potions.

See the thought police in evidence. Dr. Peverley will clearly have never seen any adverse reactions to “drugs” then. Never had cases where they did not work. Comments like this from doctors who are supposedly open minded make me angry. If you looked, and Lindy Williams too, you would see positive outcomes, but they would require you to take off your blinkers. Oliver Dowding, organic farmer Shepton Farms

Re: Jenny Lineham

Dear Mr Lewis,
I read this thread whilst searching for the link to Ms Linehams website, Key Hypnotherapy.

I went to see Jenny last year, as an absolute last resort, for some problems that I’d been having. My problems were serious enough to be a very real threat to my health and wellbeing. Doctors and endless specialists had been unable to help me and I was at the end of my tether. Hence, I decided to try hypnosis.
It is no exaggeration to state that Jenny Lineham was able to sort out for me what many other medical professionals had tried but failed to do.
I can’t claim to begin to understand how hypnotherapy helped me. I’m just glad that is did!

Wow, I just discovered that the UK has its own little Stephen Barrett (the quackwatch.com clown).

Clearly some wounded scared chap who is now dedicating his energy to fighting against things he opposes rather than growing or supporting something he believes in.

It’s so easy to criticise and attack Andy, but so much more challenging to promote something you actually believe in.

All you are doing if feeding fear and promoting it. Notice that your entire website is based upon fear. Do you see that? Probably not. I notice that you don’t advise your readers on a recommended alternative to the alternative methods you are labelling as quackery. So all you are doing is pointing and criticising from a hidden distance. This is fear in action.

Is this really what you want to be remembered for?

I recommend some EFT/NLP/hypnotherapy sessions to release that underlying anger/fear/sadness in you and then find some peace in your life. (I’m guessing you were badly bullied at school or by your guardians, and that this website is some form of emotional ‘retribution’ for all that pain)

There is hope for your heart to open and forgive, everything is possible as there are some excellent therapies now available.

wishing you peace,

Gerry

Andy, you may want to have a peek at John Benneth latest blog, I seem to have rattled him, so much so that he is now moderating replies.
Its tedious I know but I have time on my hands and don’t mind poking Mr Benneth.

Hey your site was named yesterday on blogtalkradio about quackery.

Is it true that you still get financed by: http://www.lilly.com/ ?

Can you explain why you receice money from them for your activities?

Sincerly

Steven A.

Andy, I thought this might interest you:
French Nobelist Escapes “Intellectual Terror” to Pursue Radical Ideas in China http://bit.ly/fhdyEw
Needs subscription access to Science to reach the bit where Montagnier talks about electromagnetic radiation from DNA, and supports homoeopathy…

Robert

Hi, I heard about this site on the Newsnight piece regarding homoeopathy last night – typed “quackometer.com” into address bar and got redirected to this: http://www.drfostersessentials.com/store/index.php

Cheeky monkeys!

Incidentally then ran that site through here and it scored 9, so they are clearly very reputable.

Hi,

I’d like to know if you’ve had the (mis)fortune to visit the VortexHealing site (http://vortexhealing.org/). I’m sure the site will score very high in your scale. They have all the stuff: chakras, meridians, karma, past lives, divine energy, you name it. Here’s a nugget:

quote:
At just the Basic level, the student receives transmissions that enable the channeling of 49 forms of Vortex energy and the consciousness of a divine healing realm. With these, the meridian system can be cleared and harmonized, ‘karma knots’—which are a core support for karmic & emotional issues—can be cleared, and deep clearings can be done through the various energetic bodies, chakras and physical tissues, and the system as a whole can be deeply energized. After the second class, the healer is able to bridge deeply enough into physicality to transform, for example, the sound of musical instruments, improving their sound quality—in less than a minute. At the deeper levels of VortexHealing, the very roots of emotional conditioning and identity, including genetic conditioning, can be transformed.

endquote

Looking forward to your comment on this “healing” method!

Korben

The link “pertinent questions” is a 404.

It would seem osteopaths have failed to learn anything from the BCA/Simon Singh episode.

I found this following links from the Dr Le Fanu column in the Sunday Telegraph.

http://www.naturaltherapyadvice.co.uk/news.detail.inc.php?NID=15

I see people coming here, trying to get this shoddilly coded quackometer to remove them or ‘IMPROVE’ the rating the second rate software and author has given them, my advice to those people would be, do not worry about it, because if you are legitimate or not this site will never be able to discern as much because ALL it does is some very simple and flawed tests for keywords/phrases and perhaps a review by an author who knows less than he would like to admit.

BTW
I actually agree about getting rid/pointing em out quacks and i think homeopathy aswell as a few other choice ‘treatments’ are total BS too, but this site is causing a bit too much collateral damage IMO, and attemtping to assert itself as some sort of online authority with strawman software redefining what a quack is … i.e mentioning ‘Healing’ and ‘energy’ etc = quack? REALLY?

it seems to me you want to wage war against any and every treatment that might be in the ‘Alternative’ category, EVEN if they actually do any good to the patients physically, EVEN if you have ANY or NO clue about it what-so-ever

that’s basically why this site is BS and the code is useless but worse the author seems to try to hold some power over it and the people it goes after without looking at his own site quackery first

OH AND … Richard Dawkins gets a 3 cannard rating, which points out how unscientific this whole piece of crap QUACKOMETER is.

This site NEEDS to be a scalpel going after quacks not a f-kin shotgun, and a BIT of real balance to both sides would actually give more credibility to this site rather than a total smackdown attempt at whomever lands in your sites that day, it makes you look as bad as the creationists, homeopathists, astrologers etc …it’s all just YOUR word

‘Healing’ and ‘energy’ etc = quack? REALLY?

Looks like you’ve just identified one of the defining characteristics of quacky thinking. 

it seems to me you want to wage war against any and every treatment that might be in the ‘Alternative’ category, EVEN if they actually do any good to the patients physically,

Name one example of an “Alternative” therapy that does “any good.”

Andy Prof Colquhoun wrote about this guy some time ago, his name Cliff Andrews, at the time he called his work Quantum Shiatsu, now its evolved to New Energy , web site here.http://cliffordandrews.com/
The first article links to a video here of one of his seminars. I’m afraid its long but fruitful.
The video here.
http://blip.tv/luis-palacios/energ%C3%ADa-cuántica-cliff-andrews-zenit-shiatsu-parte-1-2-5283326
Worth a look I think.

Montagnier appears to have “published” another article on “electromagnetic reproduction of DNA”: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DNA_sequence_reconstituted_from_Water_Memory.php

It’s a pity that ISIS publicise this stuff on their web site: some of their other articles are useful (agriculture, renewable energy etc.). They don’t allow critical comments on their articles at all, even very polite ones (I’ve tried).

Wondered if you might spread this link around? Twitter, blogs etc…
It’s an e-petition to stop NHS funding of Homeopathy. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/2159

Keep up the good work.

You state on your website that many quacks are guilty of being careless with the truth. In the interests of critical thinking, would you please define truth?

Ahhh. Truth seeker. Why do you ask? Do you have a problem with the concept – despite your handle?

Ahh. My feathered friend.
Why do you ask why I ask? Obviously, I ask because I wish to receive a definition of truth.
I do not understand your question “Do you have a problem with the concept…?”. I have no problem understanding that there is a concept that many people label as truth. The concept that truth is a concept does not cause me any problems.
But what is truth?

I am not a dictionary. That is why i ask why you are asking me. Nor am I into word games. So unless you wish to enlighten me as to the nature of your enquiry then I would politely ask you to seek elsewhere for your truth questions.

I am not a dictionary. That is why i ask why you are asking me. Nor am I into word games. So unless you wish to enlighten me as to the nature of your enquiry then I would politely ask you to seek elsewhere for your truth questions. If you wish to ask me about why I think quacks have a problem with truth that might be a more fruitful path.

Like you, I am a devotee of logical thought and its logical expression. When I read or hear an argument being put forward, I examine its logical structure, in order better to appreciate it.

You state, on your “About” page: “What most quacks are guilty off (sic), if anything, is a certain carelessness with the truth.” However, because I do not know what you mean by “the truth”, I cannot appreciate your line of reasoning.

I will therefore rephrase my question. What is “the truth” with which most quacks – if they are guilty of anything – are guilty of treating with a certain carelessness?

That is a better question.

After a long drive, I do not want to go into to much detail, but.

A carelessness with the truth stems from what I see in how many quacks treat evidence. Evidence is used to defend prior beliefs. It is never used to challenge beliefs. Evidence that contradicts prior beliefs is ignored. Can you think of any alternative medicine that has been dropped because the evidence showed it was infective?

I would also say that rhetoric is more important than truth. This can be seen in the way that certain arguments are used by quacks for their rhetorical quality long after they have been show to be faulty. Such as “RCTs cannot be performed on homeopathy because it needs to be individualised”, “Animals cannot respond to a placebo effect therefore the fact that I have seen animals get better after XXX proves it is not a placebo.”, “Quantum physics explains XXX… ” and so on…

If you want a full exposition of what I mean by this, I suggest ‘Believing Bullshit’ By Stephen Law for an excellent discussion.

http://universalmedicine.com.au/home
I am curious about this spiritualistic healing group who seem to believe that cancer is the result of someone not living “properly”.
They are big in the UK and are based in Byron Bay, Australia.

I am not sure how you judge people as to just reading their site. I have
studied for 14 years and worked on some very ill people with amazing
results. WHAT I DO IS NON HARMFUL.

I have top doctors coming to see me who certainly understand what I do and
love it. They also send their patients to me. As they believe as well as
I do that it all works very well together.

The remedy I have designed and now sell has been tested by hundreds of
people over three years before launching it. It is also non harmful and
has had amazing results.

Please take me off your site as it is unkind and simply not true. If you
would like me to send you more references then please tell me. I have
dedicated my life to helping other people and its not about money for me.
Its about bringing people into health and awareness. I work hard and
sometimes to the detriment to my health to help people.

Best Wishes

Tina Cutler

@Tina Cutler:

after correctly guessing what your actual website is (you missed out an “l”), I think you’re going to be, ahem, “busy” in the near future.

Your website makes lots of claims that would be easy to prove if they’re really efficacious. Are you ready to do so ?

I find it hard to comprehend why someone with any intelligence would set up a site like this, unless they were heavily conditioned into a particular narrow viewpoint. The site is well designed, but the use of the word ‘Quack’ gives away the narrowness of vision. What is more quack-like than the millions of doctors who get away with pushing pills that either don’t work or have dangerous side-effects? Clearly, I can only imagine that dear Andy Lewis (if he exists …. let us admit, there is not much evidence that he does!), is funded by good old Big Pharma. Otherwise, why such a closed view?

Dear Andy and readers,

Want a laugh? Well check out: http://www.ekenpowerbands.co.nz/testimonials/

The first video had me in stitches. These bands apparently are big in NZ and Aus, but I can’t find any trace of them in the UK.

Right – it’s time to check the next six videos to see if there’s a testimonial from a tight-rope walker.

Big Pharma and oncology research has not made much progress in the last 30 – 40 years with their cut, poison, burn standard of care. Whereas, Dr. Burzynski has indeed had a lot of very impressive results.30 – 50% cure rates for childhood brain tumors (survival is best if their brain has not first been fried by radiaton standard of care treatment – which has a less than 1% cure rate and usually they die anyway from the radaiation). Don’t you get it? Big Pharma owns the FDA because they imposed “user fees” in order to get drugs approved quickly – some in as little as 4-6 months without any proof of efficacy. They pay off the FDA to approve new poisons (which is really an alternative treatment if you think about it) so they can keep their trillion dollar cancer treatment industry going. There is way too much to lose by supporting a single doctor with a cure that would put an end to that whole industry. The FDA has been pressuring the Texas Medical Board for many years to try to find some way to put Dr.B. in jail or put him out of business but they can’t seem to find him guilty of
anything. He has been brought to 5 grand juries with no indictments. The NCI tried to steal his patent and didn’t follow the protocols that he has developed and perfected over many years of
research and so they botched the trials they ran and didn’t get good results.The FDA has approved
phase II trials which means the drugs have been shown to be safe and effective. At one of his trials
the prosecution was quoted as saying “the safety and efficacy of antineoplastons is not of issue”.
They were trying to get him on interstate commerce laws and anything they can think
of to put him away. He has been fighting for 20 years. Do you really think he would keep this up for
this long if he wasn’t on the right track. This is a bit elaborate for a scoundrel just trying to swindle
some poor cancer victims. Check out some websites. Burzynskipatientgroup.org and Burzynskiclinic.com. Try to see the documentary “Dr.Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business”. Maybe
it will shed some light. It’s hard to explain so much in a short message.

Initially, as you can tell if you read my earlier messages, I was rather hacked off that my website scores 10 on the Quackometer. Now, however, I periodically put myself into the Top Ten and my website is visited by more than a few people who find it there.

I like to think of them studying it to find the non-existent flaws and I occasionally get a new client from this exposure.

So… Thanks canard noir for your free publicity! I love the irony.

If anyone really has any beef with anything on my site I am more than happy to be challenged.

P.S. I know that there are some ‘therapists’ out there that are less than effective and even, in some cases, dangerous but beware of throwing out babies in bath water.

Has anyone ever accused the homeopathic crowd of having too much DHMO contamination in their products?

More about it at http://www.dhmo.org/

Sadly Quackery is alive and well in NZ
http://sciblogs.co.nz/molecular-matters/2012/03/27/a-netful-of-health-related-pseudoscience-in-canterbury

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fct.2012.17.issue-1/issuetoc
is the URL for the March 2012 issue of Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, a science based CAM journal.

Quite a few articles on a broad range of CAM components.

Science based? Are you effin’ kidding me?

What a load of crap: homeopathy, chiropractic, aromatherapy and laser therapy?!!!!

Where’s the article on magiv fairy dust?

Tried to email some feedback just now only to be turned away as probable spam!

I said…

I don’t really understand your pedigree or mission, but if you’re about debunking pseudoscience then why on earth are you including a blog-stream from Holford Myths. They seem to be a straightforward peddler of just the sort of thing you’re trying to debunk – mindless dietary supplements, no evidence-base etc…

Cheers — Richard Rodd

(I have no axe to grind – I jiust stumbled across you and Holford in passing…)

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event%20name,14816,en.html

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event name,14816,en.html

One of these should work.

I don’t know what Jenny Lineham is complaining about. My site scored 0 and I’ve put a lot of effort into being as loopy as possible. The quackometer needs recalibrating obviously.

Love your site! Good work. Lot of quacks, and charlatans out there peddling their “cures”, crying BIG PHARMA at every doubt that is brought forward about their supposed alternatives. Just like Jenny McCarthy and her anti vaccine crusade. She claims that vaccines caused her child to develop autism. She also claims to have “cured” her child of autism through alternative therapies. Her credentials? She is a multiple time Playboy nude model, and was married to some celebrity. Yet she has influenced countless thousands of parents in the USA to not vaccinate their children. This has endangered, sickened, and even caused the deaths of children, because they were sickened by diseases that they should not have had. And, has caused outbreaks of diseases that were well controlled. I worked in the medical profession for 30 years as an RN. I had a great, and rewarding career. There is no place for “alternative medicine”.

http://henrywronger.blogspot.co.uk/ and Envita Immunotherapy Cancer Treatments

henrywronger is based in Mumbai, India according to some of his forum profiles (found by checking some of the extensive trace of him on the internet) and IP trace suggests this is likely to be accurate. He is listed on the StopForumSpam website.

I have serious concerns about the “Immunotherapy” claims in the blogspot and elsewhere, particularly as it is publishing and advertising/promoting Cancer treatments “in the UK”.

I am intrigued by the statement “A string of published findings have illustrated the effects of adoptive immune therapy in cancer patients.” which are carefully not quoted or otherwise referred to in this blogspot anywhere.

I have been impressed by the high level of wibble and woo in this blogspot (and elsewhere in various forum postings), including this particular gem, which rates highly (IMO) in using Medical Terms That Sound Good with woo:
“Envita Natural Medical Center established in Mexico is utilizing NK cells and CTLs in real time as immunotherapy treatment for colon cancer and stage 4 cancer patients. Envita’s proprietary immune therapy vaccine is appropriately labeled AAIT (for autologous adoptive immune therapy,) and there are 4 major cell types involved – the significant majority being natural killer cells and T cells. The types of cells that make up Envita’s treatment include Natural Killer cells, Natural killer T cells, Cytokine-induced killer cells, and Cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

The vaccine(s) is created by expanding a patient’s own antitumor immune cells into mega amounts. These cells are then analyzed for activation markers and highlighted for their ability to destroy colon cancer and other stage 4 cancer cells under controlled lab conditions, then re-infused into the patient.”

Envita’s own website: http://www.envita.com/conditions-we-treat/cancer/immunotherapy and http://www.envita.com/about-envita
“The only clinic of its kind, Envita offers an extensive array of advanced natural treatments from all over the world under one roof. We combine these treatment options with the best of conventional medicine to offer our patients comprehensive and complete treatment programs. By bridging the best of what’s available in both natural and conventional medicine, we provide a cutting-edge approach to care that gives our patients the advantage.” and so on

I would be grateful if you could cast your informed and learned eye on this organisation and the efficacy (or otherwise) of this “Autologous Adoptive Immune Therapy” as part of your ongoing campaign to help prevent desparate people being separated from their cash or worse

Best Regards

Andy – the quackometer does not seem to be working at the moment. Sign of ducking out?

Has the evidence changed recently regarding Kaloba as a ‘cure’ for colds? Read your article from 2008, but I’ve been seeing it in the newspapers now saying that it has been found to be anti-viral, approved for use in Australia etc.

While you are writing about quackery write an article about yourself – you are the biggest quack I’ve read anything from in ages. Guys like you are exactly what is wrong with the internet…misinformed on so many levels yet feeling the need to stand up and spread the word! It’s the old cliche of giving a moron a microphone and an audience. You’re life is sadly boiling down to little more than propagating half truths and ludicrous malicious attacks without becoming informed regarding the research on the topics you chirp about.

Looks like quackometer is down or too heavy loaded, because analysis of pages is endlessly long.

Andy, [email protected] is bouncing my emails:
“Remote host said: 550 High probability of spam”

Please could you allow the email address on this message. I have some news that may be of interest (but which cannot yet be published) – and, I promise you, it isn’t spam!

Something you and your readers might be interested in:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3801081.htm

Hi Andy, I just saw a quote from osteopathy’s Dr. Still. Trying to quote it.. “The “Primary Respiratory Mechanism” is an expression of all life, manifested in motion and energy – motion as described as intelligent and persistent in living organisms. “God manifests Himself in matter, motion and mind.” THEN, his fellow osteopath, Dr. W.G. Sutherland, states: “the cerbrospinal fluid bears and transmits the “breath of life”. These teachers maintain that the brain and the spinal cord squirm around – on their own – and these movements can be “detected” by osteopaths who have “skilled perception” (sensing things that cannot be detected by scientific instrumentation!).. and that their “thinking, seeing, feeling, knowing fingers” can then mold the shape of the patient’s head. !! Et cetera.

Legit???

http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/legal-bid-to-save-homeopathy-on-the-nhs-1-3159793

British Homeopathic Association tweet asking all followers up and down
Uk and World Wide to vote in NHS Lothian survey.

The legal case outlined above is potentially dishonest and a farce –

The British Homeopathic Association backed the survey until it did not
go their way –

See cut and paste of tweet – where is the integrity or trust.

British Homeopathic @bhahomeopathy 5 Dec
Don’t forget to partake in #NHS Lothian survey on whether it should
continue to pay for #homeopathy ends 10th December.
http://goo.gl/1ZkZd
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Hi Andy,
This isn’t about Waldorf, but it’s less than a day old and I think it may be of interest to you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements-are-often-not-what-they-seem.html?_r=0

All the best… Pete

Dear Andy,

Wondering why I don’t get updates anymore. Have you crossed me off your list? Could you please advise me on this? if you don’t like this sort of thing going up on this page, kindly let me know by email. Meanwhile I know you like anecdotal evidence about the effects of Steiner education, and I thought you might be interested in this bit: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/why-north-korea-hates-frank-feinstein-20131219-2zly3.html

You may have heard of the pseudo-scientist Joseph Mangano who for years has been publishing “studies” showing alleged horrors of nuclear energy. This is a recent piece covering his quackery here:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/what-can-we-do-about-junk-science-16674140

So we contacted the California Department of Public Health to chase down the same data he used in a recent “study” and found major problems with his alleged findings:

http://youtu.be/DOreFp9983I

Dear Andy

Can you please come clean about your relationship to Steiner Education? You clearly have an axe to grind.

Anthroposophy is NEVER taught in Steiner Schools. Steiner was writing in 1930s Germany, a world away from today. I recently read a manual from a singer sewing machine circa 1950 which said that before I started to sew, I should ensure that all the beds were made and that I was wearing a clean dress, powder and lipstick just incase my husband might come home early. According to your logic I had better avoid sewing incase I turn into my grandmother!

Religion is not pushed in any way at Steiner Schools. My children’s teachers were 1 Muslim, 1 Buddhist, 1 Christian, 3 of no religion (one very spiritual the other two pretty much heathen). None of my children have turned religious despite going to a Steiner school and worse than that being brought up Roman Catholic. Have you got a page about catholics too? We are a bit quackers. What about the muslims, do you rubbish their beliefs too?

And by the way, my second daughter is an anatomist and doing very well BECAUSE of her Steiner education not in spite of it.

PLEASE give us a break and live and let live x

Of course you’ve lost Tracey, Pete. That’s because she lost you right at the start. You don’t have to be an anthroposophist to decide whether the practices of Steiner education are appropriate for your kids, just like you don’t have to be a Catholic to send your kids to a Catholic school. So please don’t go on and on. You’ve done enough of that already.

“You don’t have to be an anthroposophist to decide whether the practices of Steiner education are appropriate for your kids, just like you don’t have to be a Catholic to send your kids to a Catholic school.”

Any chance a parent might not know what they’re signing up for with a Catholic school Dave?

“You’ve done enough of that already.”

Waldorf can get me off their backs EASILY. They could easily do my job for me by being HONEST with parents. They’ve chosen the dishonest path instead. I find that disgusting.

As a history of medicine scholar, I am really interested in this site. I love to research quack doctory – especially of the 18th century. You may want to add Roy Porter’s book, “The Quack Doctor”.

If you ever need help deciphering why incorrect sciences were taught in the 18th century, please look me up. Not all of their medicine was ‘quackery’. In fact, most of it was based off of thousands of years of research; they just had not gotten to the point that we’re at now.

Thank you!

I’m just glad there there are only 3236 people who are naive enough to follow your every word on Facebook. There is hope yet for humanity 🙂

I am making a documentary about homeopathy and invite you to express your case against homeopathy to a camera
Colin

Your message offers no other option but to click on REPLY which takes me to this page! You will need to provide your email address!

I read elsewhere about the problems with truly informed ethical consent. Can you really have ethical approval for a homeopathic clinical trial when you know full well you are wasting time, money and possibly trust?

I think not.

You are clearly uninformed, biased and unqualified to offer any opinion of alternative treatments. Clearly you are unaware of how many people are killed by drugs every year and those that have hope that the drugs will cure their cancer, will die a worse death. Shame on you for trying to intimidate anyone who has something else to offer than doesn’t line the pockets of the drug companies.

In light of the polio outbreak in Ukraine, I wonder what Sondra’s view of the Anti-Vax movement is. Or do I?

Colin Farley -I only just saw your April posts. As I said some time ago, one utterly, utterly amazing thing that the Woo people do is to suggest, that intelligent people watch this or that Youtube film-e.g ‘The Truth About Cancer’-or check out some idiotic Woosite, safe-they think-in their woodentop belief that nobody will.actually do it. But I did. I watched ‘The Truth About Cancer’, having wondered why Andy didn’t get back to you. Now I know.
Basically, I think it’s because it’s not worth trying to argue with someone of your intellectual level.There’s no point. There’s no gain. Are you seriously proposing ‘The Truth About Cancer’ as your strongest argument?

First, I simply don’t believe the James Randi story for one second. It’s completely made up.Evidence please. Not that I will waste time waiting. He didn’t pull out of any before. Why this time?
As to the money -as is well known, it’s been lodged with lawyers and has been validated as genuine.
What’s an eminent homeopath? Is that like a magnificent unicorn?
I equally wouldn’t advise any homeopath to go to such an effort. But for different reasons.
As to whether or not I am an expert on cancer -will you people ever get it into your skulls that one does not need to be an expert on that or anything else to perceive dodgy logic, twisted and cherry-picked data, or what Steve Martin call;s ‘lies and made-up facts’?
Finally -why on Earth quote a film which you imply is going to be an argument clincher, and then admit you’ve never even seen it yoursellf? Have you looked into the background of the people in it, especially the Polish crackpot?

Clearly the possibility of a mature communication with you is impossible. I leave you to believe what you like!

Mad. Mad as fruit.

I’m rather afraid that Andrew was taken to Court a little later and persuaded to stop touting his ‘cancer’ quackery. His threats seemed to have been but bluster. But disturbing nevertheless.

Dear Andy

I always read your blog during my lunch break. However, having cleared my
browsing history, I had to do a search to find it. I was shocked to find that
when I searched for ‘Quackometer’, or ‘Quackometer blog’, the site did not
appear, though I hunted through several pages of listings. There seem to be a
number of sites calling themselves ‘Quackometer’ which claim to be for those
‘falsely accused of being a quack’. Other links led to sites which were blocked
by my security program, or to irrelevant sites, or to references to your blog on
other sites. I finally found you by looking on Twitter.

Can you do anything about this? I am posting at as a comment as the email address above didn’t work.

It’s Bing, which has newly become our default search engine at work. Firefox and Google are fine. I’m in the UK. I don’t know what an indication notice would look like.
Charlotte

This site should be eliminated from the internet.

http://qualifiednaturopath.com/ – needs measurement by Quackometer!

Dear Mr Lewis. I recently made comment on your Steiner thread. While I note that you regrettably elected to not reply and discontinued the discussion, I thought hit you might find this (related) data interesting. Context: it formed part of a lecture I delivered over the weekend relating to the global trend towards convergent thinking and collective cognitive dissonance in society. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/355271/education-spending-soars-test-scores-stagnate-deroy-murdock. While these stats relate to the USA specifically, the trend is fairly ubiquitous across the globe..for those who care to look it up. Whatever this sites views on Steiner model, it is evident that faith in compulsory state schooling is deeply misplaced. Regards

I was wondering if you have heard of any attempts to replicate Luc Montagnier’s controversial study of electromagnetism and DNA. I haven’t found anything myself, and I’m a bit surprised since it doesn’t look like he used especially expensive equipment in his research. I thought the whole thing would have been quickly killed off by failure of replication (as in the table-top-cold-fusion-debacle) but instead it looks like interest in the study just withered away without anyone dealing it an empirical death-blow.

This site definitley needs to be removed from the internet. Anything standing in the way of the truth about the Gerson Therapy is contributing to the sufferening of millions of cancer patients as well as other unfortunate disease sufferer’s around the world.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH PEOPLE. THIS SITE IS NOTHING BUT MISINFORMED IGNORANCE AND THE OWNERS WILL SOON BE FEELING VERY SILLY IN THE COMING YEARS AS THE TRUTHS ABOUT COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE THERPAIES CONTINUE TO EMERGE INTO COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND BECOME ACCEPTED

You can’t stop us Andy!

I was just checking out your website, and was very impressed with the quality, look and feel.

I’m sure you have seen a lot of companies are starting to add animated videos to their websites, social media and YouTube pages to help explain their services in a fun, clear and engaging way. I think a 60-90 second animated video would be a perfect way for you to get your companies message across to more potential clients.

My team, located in Israel, helps businesses create quality customized Character Animation, Motion Graphics & Whiteboard videos at affordable rates.

I would be happy to set up a call for a consultation and price quote.

We are eager to hear back from you!

Greetings from Jerusalem
Lisa Kent

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Ofsted are in the Steiner Academy Frome this week, keep your eyes peeled.

Have listened to two of your books – very interesting indeed to hear someone talking about the details at a clearly explained technical leve.

I have a comment – I agree that alternative therapies are often no better than placebo in trials. If Placebo effects can be beneficial in some cases, even if it is limited, would it be useful to have such treatments available. The problem is that there are no NHS provided placebo treatments as far as I know.

A related observation is how can you know the effects of a Placebo in trials since the control group would be….what?

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