What would $34 billion of Quack money buy you?
Today the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has issued a report that shows that Americans spend $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and […]
Homeopaths: Do You Really Want Statutory Regulation?
This is an open letter to all homeopaths in the UK. It has been a bit of a surprise to me to learn that the […]
Beware the Spinal Trap
The following is a reprint of an article by Simon Singh that appeared in the Guardian last year. It is highly critical of significant aspects […]
Tweet your Quack Web Pages to @quackometer
In my continuing quest to make The Quackometer the Internet’s premier resource for all your quackbusting needs, I have now taken it to Twitter. If […]
Hair Transmission Homeopathy
Cut free from the tethers of evidence and reason, homeopathy, as a system of thought, is free to soar into lofty heights of wild fantasy. […]
General Chiropractic Council Hiring Staff to deal with Complaints
I have received a letter this morning from the GCC telling me about how my complaints are going. Unsurprisingly, they are finding the sheer volume […]
What Next for the British Chiropractic Association?
The BMJ has today published an exchange between the British Chiropractic Association and Professor Edzard Ernst examining the claims of the BCA that chiropractic is […]
Skeptics in the Field
So, a few days back from the Glastonbury festival, showered and variously recovered from vicious sun, torrential thunderstorms, lack of sleep and the magical outpourings […]
Government bails out Ofquack as it rewrites old press release
Last March I asked, “Will the government bail out Ofquack?” when it was becoming very clear that the new government backed ‘regulator’ for pseudo-medical […]
Basic Alternative Medicine “Baffles Britons”
Many people in the UK are unable to identify the location of their major chakras, a study warns. A team at the Institute of Magical […]