Netcetera are Recreant Milquetoasts and Poltroons. Positive Internet Stand Tall.
So, the Quackometer has been up and running for 24 hours now and most systems have been restored. A bit more to go though. For […]
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You are Taking Part in a Randomised Controlled Trial Right Now
Double Blind Randomised Controlled Trials (DBRCTs) are not the preserve of medical science. Increasingly, corporations are using them to enter into a new world of […]
Triamazon Cancer Pill Scam Busted
You know, I do not believe that most of the people that feature on this site are fraudsters. No, the truth is far worse than […]
Joseph and Andrew Obi: International Men of Mystery
So, another vague and preposterous legal threat and my web hosts have caved like bullied ginger children. Pages have been taken down and then immediately […]
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Professor Joan Higgins, Chair of the Federal Working Group on Complementary Therapies, is in charge of setting up the Natural Healthcare Council (Ofquack). From April, […]
Prince Charles’ Ofquack is a Dead Duck
Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health and its new regulatory quango, the Natural Healthcare Council (or Ofquack, as it is bound to become known), is […]
Gold, Frankincense and Mirazid
I do find the Bible disappointing in one or two areas. For a work supposedly divinely inspired, it is remarkably lacking in handy life enhancing […]
Extending the ‘Simple Challenge’
Homeopaths claim that their pills can induce predictable and distinct sets of symptoms in healthy people. That is how they prove their powerful medicine. This […]
On the Muppet Show Tonight…
In his Guardian article, Ben Goldacre wrote about how homeopaths respond to criticism: With alternative therapists, when you point out a problem with the evidence, […]
The Two Most Dangerous Words in Medicine are “Studies Show.”
Jerry Addler has published his New Year’s resolution in Newsweek, I will not report on any amazing new treatments for anything, unless they were tested […]