Is the media complicit in promoting quackery?
Having read Edzard Ernst’s recently published memoir, A Scientist in Wonderland, in which he describes at length the real trouble he has encountered beyond mere repeated (and ongoing) attempts to […]
Tag Archives: health
Calling out (in)Clement information
Avoiding cancer is a doddle! So declareth the esteemed oncologist, George Dryden, on her authoritative medical blog, ‘it shouldn’t happen to a vegan™’. Sorry, wait, strike that; so pontificateth, the […]
Act to prevent Tredinnick becoming Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee for Health – again
It is now a year since the resignation of Stephen Dorrell as Chair of the Commons Select Committee for Health. I was concerned to read then that one of the ‘primary contenders‘ as his replacement was […]
A(nother) Twitter on homeopathy: shameless propaganda and ‘trolling’
Though I might have previously been aware of her activity here and there without taking much notice, I think I first ‘directly’ encountered arch homeopathy propagandist Sandra (Hermann-)Courtney when she […]
Tweeting Tredinnick’s testimonies
A compendium of (the unedited version of) recently tweeted quotes of David Tredinnick, MP for Bosworth, with links to sources (and correction of one or two date typos, which are […]
A Twitter on homeopathy
At the tail end of this last World Homeopathy Awareness Week, during which I at last got myself onto Twitter, and been having my fish-‘n’-chips’-wrapping-paper’s worth of input here and […]
The Tredinnick Files
The Tredinnick Files
Calling out more misleading information
What is it about conspiracy of circumstance that may engender vulnerability to the perceived charisma of charlatans? That might increase susceptibility to assimilation of the bogus teachings of some self-proclaimed […]
Lee Turnpenny 