Junking ‘Junk Science?’
I’ve become aware of David Colquhoun’s apology, posted on his DC’s Improbable Science, to Chris Woollams, founder of CANCERactive. I am not up to speed with the detailed history of […]
Category Archives: Quackery
Haled comment
Traipsing to a(nother branch of that) supermarket just before Christmas, I passed an independent bookshop in the throes of its closing down sale, as is the way of this world. […]
Medicine: evidence-based versus complementary and alternative
(A variation on some words proffered, but unlikely to see the light of day elsewhere…) . Science is disingenuously misrepresented by those whose agenda rely on contra-scientific promotional tactics, such […]
Finger Auricular Therapy
Further to my previous on the absurdity that is the administering and receiving of the practice of ear candling, I wondered whether a self-assigned ‘medical device’ classification would be of […]
Ear candling? – don’t be an ass!
If you’ve ever publicly aired a contrary opinion on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, its products, practices and practitioners, and (cough) philosophy, then, not uncoupled from the probability of encountering adherence […]
Ever for Never
Just come back from the middle class’s likely favourite supermarket, having got up at six in order to get there for a 7 am opening so as to avoid as […]
Libel reform and the public interest
Further to my passing on of the Libel Reform Campaign’s e-mail flagging up the Second Reading of the Defamation Bill in the House of Lords last Tuesday, a further LRC […]
Lee Turnpenny 