A little sip and you can join the Mile High Club and Solve the Credit Crunch
One of the themes of Ben Goldacre’s new book, Bad Science, is the ‘medicalisation of everyday life’. (read and except here). Everyday experiences are turned […]
energy healing
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 […]
Quack Word #40: ‘Energy’
Or ‘How to be debunked by a nine year old schoolgirl’ In the special world of the quack, the crank and the pseudo-scientist the word […]
“Once Dismissed as Hokum…” A Guide to Writing About Quackery in the Mail
“Once Dismissed as Hokum” is how Dr Danny Penman begins with a less-than-half-truth in his quacktasticly exceptional article about Spiritual Healing in the Daily Mail, […]
Do Hedgehogs Give My Cat Acupuncture?
I thought my post on Reiki Healing for Hedgehogs was going to be a one-off. But a recent trip to the garden centre has opened […]
“Hands-off” Healing of Hedgehogs
Quackery is often accompanied with grand associations with complex science, the harder the better. Usually, quantum theory is the science of choice: it has plenty […]