Tiny Magnets, Tiny Minds
Just when I thought the Daily Mail was reducing the number of stupid health stories that it was publishing, it comes up with a classic. […]
Beauty and the Quack
Quackery is not just found in ‘alternative’ medicine and the high street homeopathic practice. Quackery exists wherever claims for health benefits are made that do […]
Hideous Quackery?
It pains me to write this, but I have a nasty feeling that Kate Winslet might have been to visit a quack. I guess I […]
The Dilemma of Finding Reliable Health Advice Online
A press release today from the Economic and Social Research Council talks about recent research on how the public evaluates the information on health websites. […]
Holfords and Halfords
I’m going to stick my neck out here. I could be horribly wrong. But that is science; come up with a hypothesis, see if it […]
Go on, you deserve it. Slap yourself with a Healing Broom
Following on from my last post about whether the people that run quack web sites are deeply deluded or just plain old frauds, I had […]
Step Aside, I’m a Homeopath!
It is difficult to know when looking at the claims of many alternative medicine web sites, whether the people involved are a) deluded or b) […]
We the undersigned…
In the past I have been critical of the exaggerated claims made by the promoters of salvestrols as the new super-food-supplement. There is no evidence […]
The Depths of Ms McKeith’s Anti-Science
It’s been a bad week for Gillian. The anti-quackery blogging brigade have been partaking in bouts of the great British pastime of uncontrolled Schadenfreude (why […]
Luv a Duck – it’s Magnetic Holisitic Slippers!
It’s that time of year again when a young male duck’s thoughts turn to the browner sex. Yes, its St Valentine’s Day, and gift buying […]