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Archive of posts tagged snake oil

College of Medicine

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fish oil to snake oil…the Durham Council Story

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. 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 [...]

Pear Cables and Audioholics article

Following my post regarding challenging the great James Randi, Audioholics has a great article summarising the Pear Cables fiasco, with a reference to Yahoo’s Worst Tech Products of 2007. It’s good to see that the industry itself knows how to recognise snake oil. Copyright © 2008 Kulvinder Singh Matharu – All Rights Reserved