Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… again
Dear [MP], Thank you for your e-mail of 20 February 2013, as provided by your Caseworker, XXX, in response to mine of 12 February. May I commence by stating that […]
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Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… today!
The Defamation Bill receives its Third reading in the House Of Lords today. Those who might have assumed that its passage has been progressing all tickety-boo would do well to […]
‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ cites paper that demonstrates there is no such thing as homeopathy
Back in that supermarket a few days ago, I again found myself driven to taking a thumb through the latest edition of QuackRag What Doctors Don’t Tell You, whose unscrupulously […]
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 […]
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. […]
A few (unoriginal) words on evidence-based versus complementary and alternative medicine
(A variation on some accommodating words proffered elsewhere, though unlikely to make the cut…) . Science is disingenuously misrepresented by those whose agenda rely on contra-scientific promotional tactics, such as […]
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 […]
One day in 2012
Good afternoon. Here is the news. Her Majesty the Queen has recovered from the slight sniffle that prevented her usual attendance at church on Sunday, and is thus well enough […]
Lee Turnpenny 