We would be the Sceptics answer to Jedward, if I had any Hair.
Thanks to Stephen Law at the Centre of Inquiry for posting this video of myself and Simon Singh, just after our talks at Conway […]
10:23. My Personal Homeopathic Overdose
Right now, if the homeopaths are correct, I should have paralysed arms, be in severe pain, have convulsions, delirium, skin itching all over and be […]
10:23, Homeopathy and the Shame of the Pharmacy Profession
This Saturday, hundreds of people, in many cities, will be demonstrating outside Boots the Chemists about their selling of homeopathic remedies. Each volunteer will be […]
The Meaning of the 10:23 Homeopathy Campaign.
In the last few days, a new campaign has been launched with the aim of showing that homeopathy is an ‘absurd pseudoscience’ and that Boots […]
The MHRA and the Labeling of Homeopathic Products
Further documents have been published after the House of Commons held its enquiry into the evidence base for government policy on homeopathy. There are some […]
Trick or Treatment: The Event
Over the next few weeks, I will be taking the Quackometer on tour around the UK and giving talks exploring what factors allow pseudo-medicines to […]
Storm in a Tea Cup
Tim Minchin’s rather brilliant poem Storm is being made into a film. You can see the newly released trailer above. The full poem (available here) […]
James Randi, Global Warming and the Nature of Scepticism
James Randi is a hero to many rational people around the world. He has done more than, perhaps, any person alive to promote rational and […]
To Coffee! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
We have a conflicted relationship with the things that give us pleasure. We fear overindulgence may be harming us, and we desperately seek evidence that […]
Meddling Princes, Medical Regulation and Licenses to Kill
The Eighteenth Century in England was the Golden Age of Quackery, with London being a world capital for mountebanks, charlatans and other practitioners of irregular […]