The ‘truth’ of a story?
I’ve recently picked up on the (to these eyes) highly dubious writings of Laura Bond, via the editorial to the November issue of QuackRag, to which she contributes several articles […]
Category Archives: Quackery
WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery
Over at QuackRag.com there is a blog post entitled ‘The inconvenient truth’. From what I can gather, this article is the reproduced editorial of the latest print edition, which, though […]
George and Pete go to Parliament
Four years ago, during the House of Commons Science and Technology Sub-Committee’s Evidence Check on Homeopathy, Dr. Peter Fisher of the (then named) Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, in response to […]
The pseudoscience of the creator of pseudoscience’s petty petition
My recent frowning response to what is, in effect, a defensive CAM-promoting petition brought informative comment on its creator. Hence, I’ve learned that the ‘M’ in ‘Jessica Braid (formerly M. […]
Pseudoscience’s petty petition
Avaaz (according to its own website) is: ‘… a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.’ It does, by and large, apparently conduct itself reasonably, raising awareness […]
Kinesiology as (not is) CAM
Some time back I discovered, amongst the piles of leaflets advertisers are permitted to display in the foyer of my favourite local cinema, material promoting the services of one or […]
(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 ! […]
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 […]
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