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Archive of entries posted on July 2009

Beware the spinal trap

reprinted from Sense About Science Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This is an edited version of an article published in The Guardian for which Singh is being personally sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association. Beware the [...]

In the sack!

Fantastic! This has already been posted at a number of other blogs recently, and I think that this was originally on the BBC. Dara O’Briain explains, with humour, what he really thinks of pseudo-scientists, preachers of woo woo and other modern witch-doctors. Great line "homeopath horseshit peddler". And "psychics, astrologers and priests" all get the [...]

Homeopathy – the pain, the pain!

Another cracker of a post from The Quackometer http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/07/hair-transmission-homeopathy.html. Using hair to transmit homeopathic "treatments". I can’t take it anymore more! The stupid, it burns!!! Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009 Image credit: Ahren Paulson, aka Plognark

Doctor Jonathan Miller socks it to the Blairs

Over at http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/50683,news,jonathan-miller-on-the-money-hungry-blairs-the-grinning-twat-and-his-frightful-wife, Doctor Jonathan Miller gives his opinion on Tony Blair and Cherie Blair. Too true, Miller, too true. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009 Image credit: Russ Cook