Jeremy Sherr’s clinics promoting homeopathy in Africa is, as Quackometer puts it, murderous. Homeopathy has been shown to be a placebo and, as a placebo, can have certain benefits for a narrow range of ailments through use of psychological effects. And there are probably better ways to harness this placebo effect. But to use homeopathy [...]
Now that Matthias Rath has pulled out of his libel case against Ben Goldacre and The Guardian, further background information on the death and misery wrought on South Africa has now been made available by Ben Goldacre at the following links: http://www.badscience.net/2008/09/matthias-rath-pulls-out-forced-to-pay-the-guardians-costs-i-think-this-means-i-win/ http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/ What is well known, and needs repeating, is that former President Thabo [...]
