Chekhov, Homeopathy and the Placebo Effect
What can Anton Chekhov tell us about the placebo effect? Chekhov is best known as a great writer of short stories. But he was also a […]
Boots Unconcerned About Nelsons Production Problems.
So, to recap: Nelsons, manufacturers of Bach Flower Remedies and various homeopathic products, had their London factory inspected by the the American regulators as they […]
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 […]
Bupa no longer covers Homeopathy
So, a quick note to mark that the latest changes in T’s & C’s from Bupa simply state that they will no longer provide cover […]
The Dirty Tricks of Alternative Medicine
Last week, I wrote about how German Homeopathy pill manufacturers were paying a writer who was using his blog post to smear and attack academic Edzard Ernst. […]
The Fear of Fukushima Radiation
The website What Doctors Don’t Tell You operates on the premise that there is a body of health knowledge that you are not going to […]
Is Biodynamic Farming Vegan?
Biodynamic farming is seen as the ‘more organic than organic’ method of sustainable farming. It is not. Biodynamics is the method of farming proposed by […]
German Homeopathy Companies Pay Journalist who Smears UK Academic
A consortium of pharmaceutical companies in Germany have been paying a journalist €43,000 to run a set of web sites that denigrates an academic who […]
The Insidious Pervasiveness of the Cult of Rudolf Steiner
This morning, we discovered that pharmaceutical companies in Germany that manufacture homeopathic remedies, had being paying shills to discredit critics of alternative medicine. One of […]
The Bank that likes to say ‘Quack’: Triodos
With the news of banking scandals over the past few days, there are many people reconsidering where they bank. Is it possible to bank with […]