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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
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    Steiner Schools and Risk Factors for Child Abuse

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Desperate Remedies

Homeopathy on the NHS has nearly vanished. We see prescriptions have halved in the past…

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Andy L
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29th July, 2008
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Qu-Chi Coup at the Telegraph

In a shocking move the Daily Telegraph has got rid of its Business Editor, and…

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Andy L
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29th July, 2008
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That’s It for Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital

Reported today in Pulse,Campaigners look to have lost their fight to save a leading homeopathic…

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Andy L
26 Comments
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28th July, 2008
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Healing the Wounds of Alternative Medicine

It has not been a good few weeks to be a supporter of alternative medicine.…

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Andy L
7 Comments
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11th July, 2008
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Vanessa Feltz and Other Mangy Foxes

This morning on Vanessa Feltz's BBC Radio London show, the discussion was about London's urban…

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Andy L
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7th July, 2008
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Alleged Victim of Oxford Nutritionist ‘Detox Diet’ wins £810,000

Barbara Nash is a nutritionist based near Oxford. Dawn Page was overweight and sought the…

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Andy L
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5th July, 2008
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The “New Fundamentalism”: Why Lionel Milgrom is Plain Wrong (Again)

Bafflegab - the multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other…

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Andy L
48 Comments
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30th June, 2008
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What’s Behind the Green Door? More Unorthodox Thoughts from Glastonbury

It's Sunday, day three at Glastonbury, the world's greatest rap music festival, and the seagulls…

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Andy L
5 Comments
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28th June, 2008
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Dispatches from the Sceptic Fields

It's Shakin' Stevens o'clock here at Glastonbury. Lunchtime. Saturday, as we emerge from the first…

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Andy L
8 Comments
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18th June, 2008
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£10,000 if you can show homeopathy works

Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh have issued a challenge to homeopaths: show the world your…

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Andy L
29 Comments
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