Excellent Science-based Medicine article on the recent Parliament report on homeopathy at http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3961 The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (STC) has released a report, Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy, in which they recommend that the NHS stop funding homeopathy. The report is a rare commodity – a thoroughly science-based political document. The article goes [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
My Sister’s Farmhouse
Over at AnAtheist.Net I came across an article that pointed to a blog from My Sister’s Farmhouse who apologised for being such a shithead for all those years when she was a Christian. Anyway, that got me interested in My Sister’s Farmhouse wondering what had led her (Rechelle) on this path of self-discovery. Well, what [...]
Homeopathy IS a placebo
It’s clear, homeopathy is a placebo. It’s been demonstrated again and again in proper scientific trials. The recent Science & Technology committee report on homeopathy comes to the same conclusion and makes a series of recommendations, and gimpy’s blog has rather good article on this at: http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/the-evidence-check-on-homeopathy-is-released-and-it-is-devastating/ DC’s Improbable Science also has an interesting article [...]
Homeopathy degrees
Apparently there’s an old saying, “Don’t kick a man when he’s trying to apologise”. Or something like that. And so I welcomed the news of several universities dropping “degree” courses in homeopathy. It can’t have been an easy thing to do but I’d like to think that the universities recognised the need to maintain intellectual [...]
Sikh judge Sir Mota Singh and knives
Retired judge Sir Mota Singh, a Sikh, recently made some comments that Sikhs must be allowed to carry Kirpans (a ceremonial dagger or knife) and be exempt from the prohibitions that forbid the carrying of knives to such places as schools. In UK law, there some seem to be some specific exemptions for “religious reasons” [...]
DarkMatter2525 – EPIC GOD FAIL
This video from DarkMatter2525 at http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525#p/u/6/zIwiU7thK54 has been out for a while but I wanted to add it here as it has a lot of synergy with NonStampCollector’s video on “http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Misc%20Photos/Snow%20in%20London%202009/index.html)” which I had linked to only just recently. This is the DarkMatter2525 “EPIC GOD FAIL” video http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525#p/u/6/zIwiU7thK54 Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – [...]
NonStampCollector – Jephthah (Judges 11)
Now and again I may link or embed a video from NonStampCollector. For those that don’t know, NonStampCollector has his own YouTube channel. In this post, I’m linking to NonStampCollector’s video on “Jephthah (Judges 11)”. On a slightly different tack, I’m looking forward to having more lively debates with Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on my [...]
Snake oil, disgust and anger
I recently had a little diatribe in my article at www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/02/04/354.html where I expressed concern at the increasingly worrying practice of Boots and others of handling homeopathic products as medicine contrary to all results from proper scientific trials which show that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo. Well, I just came across this video [...]
Death of homeopathy
Quackery such as homeopathy need to be treated as such; quackery. Endorsement for quackery from the government, NHS or the meddling Royal family need to be challenged. Additionally, silence or inaction can be interpreted as an endorsement for quackery. It is a hard battle fighting nonsense, but we do need to get away from these [...]
Cherie Blair – you are WRONG!
Cherie Blair, or known as Cherie Booth QC, as judge issued a suspended sentence to a man convicted of a violent crime. One of the reasons that Cherie spared the man from being thrown into jail was because he was a “religious man”. Fine. So what Cherie seems to be saying is that those who [...]
