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Science or Snake Oil: Will the NHS Puberty Blocker Trial Harm More Than It Helps?
The Illusion of Proof: Confirmation bias and the Lucy Letby Case
What would an ethical clinical trial into puberty blockers look like?
Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 2
Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1
Brighton Sceptics and the Reece’s Pieces
Getting AI to write a Thesis on Transgender and Non-binary Archaeology.
The Muddling of the American Mind – Part II
Science or Snake Oil: Will the NHS Puberty Blocker Trial Harm More Than It Helps?
The Illusion of Proof: Confirmation bias and the Lucy Letby Case
What would an ethical clinical trial into puberty blockers look like?
Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 2
Breaking Down Cass Review Myths and Misconceptions: What You Need to Know: Part 1
Brighton Sceptics and the Reece’s Pieces
Getting AI to write a Thesis on Transgender and Non-binary Archaeology.
The Muddling of the American Mind – Part II
  • Science or Snake Oil: Will the NHS Puberty Blocker Trial Harm More Than It Helps?

  • The Illusion of Proof: Confirmation bias and the Lucy Letby Case

  • Sex and Gender

    Tribal Scepticism

    Andy L 3rd January, 2020
  • Sex and Gender

    On the existence of females

    Andy L 8th June, 2020
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    Have Homeopaths Reached Peak Stupid?

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    Andy L 21st November, 2014
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    What the Steiner Waldorf School Movement did not want you to read.

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    Andy L 14th June, 2013
    featured regulation Rudolf Steiner steiner, Steiner Schools

    Steiner Schools and Risk Factors for Child Abuse

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NHS “Any Qualified Provider” Initiative is a Bonanza for Quacks

As we were all watching the Tiswas Select Committee questioning the Murdochs, the government were…

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Andy L
22 Comments
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8th July, 2011
Bad Charity College of Medicine

Quack Aid – The Sunflower Jam

This evening, a gathering of aging rockers, are performing for a fundraising event aimed at…

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Andy L
13 Comments
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5th July, 2011
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Proposed ASA “allowed wording” for advertising homeopaths’ services.

Further, to my last blog post's report on a leaked email from the homeopaths showing…

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Andy L
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1st July, 2011
ASA regulation Uncategorized

Desperate Homeopaths

Look what just appeared in my inbox. It a communication that appears to have gone…

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Andy L
12 Comments
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18th June, 2011
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Any Willing Quack. Liverpool PCT look to Commission Homeopathic Services

I do not have a crystal ball. And I have no idea how the current…

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Andy L
57 Comments
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15th June, 2011
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Debating Homeopathy on BBC Oxford Radio

This morning I took part in a debate on the Phil Gayle show on BBC…

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Andy L
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14th June, 2011
College of Medicine Uncategorized

Homeopathic Study of Cancer Treatment Fails. Homeopaths Conclude It Works.

Given that it is Homeopathy Awareness Week again, I thought it would be worth exploring…

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Andy L
39 Comments
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3rd June, 2011
College of Medicine historical quackery

Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body

The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at Exeter and Plymouth Universities have issued an…

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Andy L
9 Comments
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2nd June, 2011
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Chris Ruane MP, ex deputy head, has doubts about germ theory

One of the readers of my blog wrote to his constituency MP about his concern…

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Andy L
4 Comments
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1st June, 2011
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Homeopaths discussing treatment for HIV

I thought I would share with you this little conversation I saw on a homeopathic…

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Andy L
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