http://xkcd.com/765/ Unfortunately stupidity can be richly reward by society especially when the skills of critical thinking are not widely taught. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
Archive of posts tagged homeopathy
Talking Tom Cat and Healing Crystals
Well, well, well. Why do I say that? Now here’s a tale… There’s a very popular free iPhone app called “Talking Tom Cat” by Outfit 7. It’s an interactive cat and the kids love it (and a few adults too!). As a free app I was not in the least bit surprised to see that [...]
Homeopathy, simple but deadly.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates has recently posted a comic strip on homeopathy. Awesome! Homeopathy http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.com/2010/06/homeopathy.html …and don’t forget 1023’s brief article: Homeopathy; what’s the harm? http://www.1023.org.uk/whats-the-harm-in-homeopathy.php Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
David Tredinnick- they voted for this guy?
It’s been brought to my attention that MP David Tredinnick has recently tabled some Early Day Motions (EDMs) supporting the pseudoscience known as “homeopathy”. Intrigued, I looked further. This is what I found: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tredinnick_(politician) He was once a Parliamentary Private Secretary, but was forced to resign and was suspended for 20 days after he [...]
The h-bomb in terrorist hands
Be careful out there! New Age terrorists develop homeopathic bomb http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/04/20/new-age-terrorists-develop-homeopathic-bomb/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
British MPs displaying ignorance?
DC’s Improbable Science has an article http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2829 titled “A handy list of dimwitted members of parliament” which starts: An‘early day motion1 (EDM 908) has been tabled in parliament which opposes the conclusions of the science and technology committee report on the evidence for homeopathy. After two weeks it has been signed by an amazing 55 [...]
Homeopathy Gets a Reality Check in the UK
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
