Broccoli for Brains
Last Friday, saw Trevor McDonut’s ‘Tonight with’ programme showcase Patrick Holford’s ‘Food for the Brain’ charity and its involvement with a school. The school apparently […]
Absence of Evidence
The absence of the Bad Science column in yesterday’s Guardian has all the makings of a bigger story than had there actually been a column. […]
Autism: If You Can’t Blame MMR, Let’s Try Wi-Fi
Maybe we are witnessing the death throes of the MMR controversy. The arguments that autism is caused by the triple-jab have been shown to be […]
Chinese Whispers – MMR and the Press
Just a few days before Andrew Wakefield appears before the GMC disciplinary body on charges of misconduct, a front page article in the Observer makes […]
Quack Word #20: ‘Iatrogenic’
Iatrogenesis is not a concept that is confined to quackery, but like most of the words in my Quack Words series it tends to show […]
Lethal Trust
If you were to believe the Society of Homeopaths, the quacks that were handing out lethal advice to Newsnight investigators about malaria prevention, were just […]
Powerwatch is not Scaremongering and Profiteering (anymore)
A few weeks ago, I pointed out that some of the science on the Powerwatch site appeared to be significantly less than convincing about the […]
Homeopathy Don’t Kill People, Homeopaths do.
Right, let’s get serious. It’s the end of Homeopathy Awareness Week and enough of the jokes. You might be surprised, but actually, I don’t have […]
Preview Quackery Web Sites
I have just installed a new tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site. There is […]
Begging the Question for Homeopathy
As my own personal tribute to Homeopathy Awareness Week, and as promised in my last post, I would like to critique a paper that has […]