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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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    Andy L 5th November, 2012
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Rudolf Steiner

Frome Steiner Free School in Financial Trouble

The first Free School approved in the UK run under the occult teachings of Rudolf…

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Andy L
128 Comments
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23rd March, 2016
Saatchi Bill

The Saatchi Bill: When Only the Fig Leaf Remains

The Quackometer has been raising concerns for nearly two years that Lord Saatchi has been…

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Andy L
4 Comments
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10th March, 2016
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Ten Things You Need To Know About Acupuncture

This week is Acupuncture Awareness Week. This is probably a good thing as, of all the…

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Andy L
28 Comments
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4th February, 2016
Bad Charity homeopathy

HIV Homeopathy Charity Facing Financial Crunch

The charity Homeopathy Action Trust represents pretty much everything that is wrong with homeopathy in…

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Andy L
14 Comments
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31st January, 2016
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Indian Homeopaths come to UK to Lecture on Treating Cancer

This blog has been continuously critical of UK homeopaths who fund and set up clinics…

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Andy L
16 Comments
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23rd January, 2016
homeopathy

Quack Is The New Black

The UK homeopathy bodies are continuing their use of PR to try to raise the…

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Andy L
91 Comments
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16th November, 2015
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4Homeopathy – The Homeopaths Strike Back

Before you begin, if your irony meter is switched on, then to avoid damage, please…

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Andy L
30 Comments
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12th October, 2015
Saatchi Bill

Write to Your MP Today about the Quack Saatchi Bill.

The Stop the Saatchi Bill Alliance are making an urgent call to action for people…

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Andy L
0 Comments
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16th September, 2015
Saatchi Bill

Chris Heaton-Harris MP Resurrects Lord Saatchi’s Zombie Quacks’ Charter.

Lord Saatchi has been trying for a number of years now to introduce a law…

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Andy L
6 Comments
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30th August, 2015
Bad Charity homeopathy regulation

Disaster for British Homeopathic Association after Judicial Review fails over Provision of Homeopathy on NHS

Like many parts of the NHS, Lothian Health Board had recently made the sensible decision to…

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Andy L
40 Comments
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