(de)Romanticising energy
I once heard a careerist biologist opine, in a brief aside whilst delivering a seminar, that the ‘secret of life’ is (cue drum roll…) … the generation of ATP ! […]
Category Archives: Pseudoscience
Worth the effort…?
There is (fair) argument sometimes made that the huge amount of public money expended on often unnecessary and/or ineffective and/or downright dangerous ‘Big Pharma’ products renders objection to that frittered […]
No such thing as ‘Allopathy’
Over at FreethoughtBlogs, an uncharacteristic petit faux pas in the prolifically excellent* ‘A Million Gods‘ motivates me into publicly scratching an irritation. The first time I think I heard/read the […]
Yet further comment…
(I know at least one reader will be interested in this, thus making it a topic theme worth continuing…) I have of late been banging my head at the ongoing […]
Another comment on BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy
Well, I don’t know what bugs are at play in the BMC Cancer system. Almost three weeks since submitting the latest re-worked version of my comment (which I append below […]
Pseudoscience Awareness Week
Today is the last day of ‘World Homeopathy Awareness Week‘, which commences every year with cult-like commemoration of the birthday of its movement’s founder. The site informs us: ‘WHAW (World […]
BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy: ‘new’ comment
It took (me) a month to get a comment posted on a paper on BMC Cancer’s site. My abbreviated version (which appeared five days after re-submitting it) has now sat […]
Further comment on ‘Comment on protracted moderation of a comment: BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy’
Feb 21st (twenty days ago): I posted here a critical review of a paper purporting to research the effects of homeopathy on cancer patients, prompted by its citation in QuackRag […]
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