A quickly bashed out manifesto, if I were to have such a thing
Last night, a friend who I have not seen for a little while, asked me an important question. She was well aware of my blogging […]
The Modern Face of Scientific Homeopathy
Tonight, on BBC2, we were treated to Professor Regan’s Medicine Cabinet, where we were walked through the vast amount of quackery that we can find […]
Homeopaths Attempt to Rubbish Ernst and Singh with Dismal Critique
The stillborn homeopathy campaign, Homeopathy Worked for Me, that attempted to collect 250,000 signatures but managed just a few percent of that, has now resorted […]
Nutritional Therapists Fail to Join Ofquack
The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, Ofquack, is having an appalling start to its life. Needing 10,000 people to join its register in the first […]
Homeopathy Does Not Cause Side Effects in Cancer Patients
The Cochrane Library has published a new review of the effects of homeopathy on cancer patients**. Its conclusion is that “there is limited evidence that […]
Quackometer Upgrade
Some of the quackometer functionality has not been working too well over the past few months. The Am I a Quack or Not? function was […]
Fraud In Chinese Medicine
Chinese Herbal Medicine could be seen as the acceptable side of alternative medicine. It does not suffer from the utter implausibility of homeopathy, nor does […]
The Failure of Openness at Ofquack
I was going to call this post “The Failure of IT at Ofquack”, but I think the failure is a little deeper than computers. The […]
Samuel Hahnemann and his Frankenstein Experiments
My automated scans of the internet for all things about quackery have thrown up some interesting news today. The German newspaper Bild is reporting that […]
Top Ten Tips For Creating Your Own New Alternative Medicine
The economic downturn may mean that you are thinking of retraining as an alternative healer. You might be tempted to invest your redundancy money or […]