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 […]
Sue the Blogger: Homeopathic Thinking
Sue Young, homeopath, writer, historian, mother and a daughter, had a bit of a shock last week when a ‘murder’ of quack-busters descended on what […]
Self-Awareness in Homeopathy Awareness Week
Originally posted for World Homeopathy Awareness Week, I thought this would be worth bumping up for Homeopathy Awareness Week 2007 (14-21st June), organised by the […]
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As promised, the first of a number of small improvements to the site. If you are one of those few people that actually read my […]
Dr Ann Walker and Her Neanderthal Theories
In this story, a supplement industry spokesperson resorts to Creationist ‘Science’ for their evidence to support the ‘crucial’ nature of supplement pills, shows how we […]
Welcome to the New Look Quackometer
As you can see, the Quackometer has had a makeover. This is the first in a series of improvements I hope to make in the […]
More Quackometer Products…
Le Canard Noir is currently working on a site revamp and this will now include a shopping area for all your favourite quackometer products. You […]
Exradia: Big City Corporate Quackery?
I’ve been writing rather a lot recently about the quackery that surrounds the whole question of whether electromagnetic emissions are harming our health. Apologies. But […]
Stapling the Stomachs of Anorexics
Yes, a deliberately provocative title for this blog entry. The distressing and puzzling illness of anorexia is very real. We see people convinced that their […]
How to Turn your Whole House into a Big Bad Wi-Fi Aerial.
So, with all this hot air blowing around about the inevitability of our imminent deaths due to mobiles and Wi-Fi, it is no surprise that […]