If you’ve read some of my articles or explored the links on this blog, you’re likely to have come across the site What’s The Harm? which details the harm caused seeking medical treatment based on homeopathy, superstitions, faith healing, witchcraft, fairy tales and other pseudosciences. In short, a failure to think critically. There are a [...]
Archive of posts tagged homoeopathy
Homeopaths Attempt to Rubbish Ernst and Singh with Dismal Critique
The Quackometer has an article that describes William Alderson’s (ill-written) response to Ernst & Singh’s book "Trick or Treatment: Medicine on Trial". The article is at http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/04/homeopaths-attempt-to-rubbish-ernst-and.html
Alliance of Registered Homeopaths – more than stupid
gimpy’s blog calls the ARH press release stupid. I would go further. The Addenbrooks Hospital work referenced has nothing to do with homeopathy and for ARH to claim that it does is very clearly a lie. In fact, it has been known for a long time now that homeopathy is based on ideas that are demonstratably false, so [...]
The shaky foundations of Chiropractic
Although I have generally focused on homeopaths, and even though there has been some progress in addressing pseudoscience in some UK universities, Quackometer reminded me that there are a bunch of other pseudosciences out there that appear to be accepted by the public at large. In particular, Quackometer’s article discusses the current status of chiropractic. The [...]
The Society of Homeopaths
I believe that homeopaths are dangerous. And The Society of Homeopaths is not only complicit in their apparent commitment of inaction against their members who make unsubstantiated claims on cures, but they are also immoral in their commitment of action against those who point out the Society’s inaction. The Quackometer article gives further updates of [...]
The New Witch Doctors
I recently received some comments from a reader regarding my articles on homeopathy and my criticism of this pseudoscience. The reader asked if I had ever met anyone who had been treated using homeopathy and that I also should temper my vehemence; the implication being that homeopathy provided a valuable service which delivered positive results [...]
What?! Natural History Museum and pseudo-science!
Just had a shock! From DC’s Improbable Science article on “Quackademics in USA and Canada” I found out that the Natural History Museum in London promotes the pseudo-science and quackery of homeopathy. It’s bad enough with blithering Prince Charles et al doing the wacky talk, but to have an esteemed science institution doing the same is [...]
Dangers of pseudo-science and alternative medicines
A lot of people ask “What’s the harm with homeopathy?” After all, it’s only water. Homeopathy had its uses when it first started in the 18th centuary as the “treatment” generally caused less harm than the more traditional treatments at the time. But things are now different. Science has moved on and our knowledge has increased. Proper [...]
Unsupported claims
Skeptico has a great article on something that I’ve felt strongly about for some time. I’ve tried to introduce critical thinking processes to some people and have tried using various arguments for showing the perilous foundations that homeopathy, astrology, chiropractice, etc are built on. But most people are set in their ways and although I [...]
Homeopathy is a lie
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 [...]
