Charlatanism: fantasy or dishonesty?
In his Homeopathy: The Undiluted Facts Edzard Ernst delineates between two types of charlatan: the dishonest and the fantasist. I don’t know and have never met Sally Lloyd, a homeopath who charges for […]
In his Homeopathy: The Undiluted Facts Edzard Ernst delineates between two types of charlatan: the dishonest and the fantasist. I don’t know and have never met Sally Lloyd, a homeopath who charges for […]
Though of a reasonable, easy-going disposition, I do, like most, have my bugbears. Chief among which is people who lie for a living. Chief among whom are quacks. And those […]
So, the one who tweets under the handle, @HomeoReikiDogs; who variously ‘practices’/promotes/advocates/endorses (e.g.) Reiki, chakras, auras, prana, homeopathy, MMS, ‘energy methods’, ‘Moon healing’, Venkatesh, etc.; the one who claims to […]
I don’t know whether ‘Sir’ Simon Jenkins has acquired the clout to by-pass sub-editors and supply the (sub-)headlines to his own articles. If he has, then he palpably lacks the […]
I confess to wondering whether Edzard Ernst’s recent increased activity at The Spectator website has arisen due to the latter’s cynical recognition (following the lengthy reaction to Tarek Arab’s naïve, […]
My god, it’s full of pills! The more you look at homeopathy, the dafter it becomes. Seriously! I’ve been partaking in a (as I write, still ongoing) ding-dong comment thread […]
“How many people lie instead of talking tall” (David Bowie, ‘Blackstar’) So, Bowie is dead. And all and sundry have been airing their favourite anecdotal bits and eulogistic pieces all over […]
What with time engaged in circumstantial re-arrangement and embarking on a period of semi-nomadism, I’ve written little of late. I have, however, still been prodding and irking my oft-naïve sensibility […]