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 [...]
I was going to post something about the recent BBC Horizon episode “Science Under Attack” but I held off as I needed to calm down after witnessing, in my humble opinion, the bizarre behaviour of Daily Telegraph journalist James Delingpole. Well, I’ve calmed down now and have seen that richarddawkins.net has some commentary on this [...]
DC’s Improbable Science provides an update on the so-called “College of Medicine”: Don’t be deceived. The new “College of Medicine” is a fraud and delusion http://www.dcscience.net/?p=3632 I share DC’s despair; the “College of Medicine” is really nothing more than a reincarnation of the decrepitude and morally bankrupt Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Integrated Health. I [...]
Article by Harriet Hall on the failed experiment in bringing real science and critical thinking to “O, The Oprah Magazine”: Write for Oprah? Wrong for Me http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6721 Ben Goldacre’s book “Bad Science” and website www.badscience.net details the misuse and abuse of science by the media; Harriet Hall’s experience would seem to validate a lot of [...]
Further to my recent article Chiropractor’s back off! at http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2010/04/15/384.html regarding the British Chiropractic Association on their dropping the libel case against Simon Singh, I’ve came across an article from the excellent Ben Goldacre at http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/british-chiropractic-association-drops-shameful-libel-case-against-science-writer-who-criticised-them/ which goes into a bit more depth. Well worth a read. There is another excellent article from Stuff and [...]
