Calling out misleading information? It SHOULD happen…
Quackery abounds. And quacks abide. And their devotees stick their deluded noggins in the oblivious sand. A few days ago I came across a retained news clipping in my cuttings […]
Category Archives: Pseudoscience
‘Rt. Hon.’ David Tredinnick MP, ‘Minister for Quackery’
As I understand it, parliamentary privilege means an MP can say whatever he/she likes in The House, without fear of libel – excepting calling another MP a liar in The House. Because […]
Detox? What a load of old goop!
I’ve occasionally heard people state an intention to abstain from alcohol for a month. I’ve done so myself more than once, though usually selecting February, for temporally obvious reasons. I mean, […]
Promoting quackery in Parliament: debating Tredinnick
When Dennis Skinner made the news bulletins last Friday for his apposite swipe at the Tory-UKIP curs Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell, what wasn’t made so apparent was the context in […]
Comment on cult commenting
‘I love comments and encourage you to leave one, two or more.’ So declareth Sandra Hermann-Courtney on the Home page of her petty paranoid blog project, ‘fighting-for-homeopathy‘. What, do we […]
Misguided misguidance?
Back in the sceptic saddle… and, during my world catch-up last weekend, appalled by a story in The Sunday Times, headlined ‘Patients misled on alternative cancer care‘. Unless you’re a […]
Questioning Tredinnick
Recently (10th June) in Parliament, during an Oral Answers to Questions — Health session, the bumbling humbugger, considering discussion of Accident and Emergency Units prime opportunity to interject some pseudoscience […]
Act to prevent Tredinnick becoming Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee for Health
I note with interest the news of the resignation of Stephen Dorrell as Chair of the Commons Select Committee for Health. I am concerned to read that one of the primary contenders for […]
Lee Turnpenny 