Fish oil to snake oil…the Durham Council Story

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Sep 252008
 

I’ve been following this story for some time now, and it’s got real interesting recently with articles on the current situation over at Bad Science and Holford Watch.Quackery

Basically, this is about the infamous fish oil “trial” and Durham Council’s claims on the positive effects of fish oil. But with no real evidence offered and what appears to be flawed “trials”, questions have to be adequately answered and accountability given. Instead we get smokescreens and other face-saving misdirections from Durham Council.

“Quack Quack!”

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Homeopathy is a lie

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Nov 182007
 

Despite all the evidence from properly conducted experiments and trials which show that homeopathy is a lie, a large numbers of people still think that homeopathy is real and not a placebo effect. Their delusional mindset is something that will be hard to rectify; witness the still quite large numbers who believe in astrology and other woo-woo phenomenon.

What we can do, is continually point these people to the evidence and explain the processes that underlie the scientific process in the hopes that they can use critical thinking techniques to cut-out all the chaff that exists out there and concentrate on the pertinent details and reach their own conclusions. It will be slow and hard process. A good place to start is reading Ben Goldacre’s http://www.badscience.net/ site, and in particular, his latest article The end of homeopathy?

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