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Tag Archives: New Age

Are nonsense ‘cures’ for cancer a ‘soft target’?

May 31, 2016by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

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, […]

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Free expression, Politics, Quackery

Homeopathy – could be some trip

March 12, 2016by Lee Turnpenny 2 Comments

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 […]

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Pseudoscience, Quackery

Detox? What a load of old goop!

January 6, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

I’ve occasionally heard people state an intention to abstain from alcohol for a month. I’ve done so myself more than once, though usually selecting February, for temporally obvious reasons. I mean, […]

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Politics, Pseudoscience, Quackery

Sally’s road

October 30, 2014by Lee Turnpenny 2 Comments

“Keep an open mind.” Ever heard that before? The  nugget of sagacity frequently proffered up by apologists/excusers/devotees of (practitioners of) activities which tend to provoke quizzical attitude in those not […]

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Free expression

WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery

November 20, 2013by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

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 […]

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WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery

November 20, 2013by Lee Turnpenny 4 Comments

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 […]

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Free expression, Pseudoscience, Quackery, Science

(de)Romanticising energy

August 9, 2013by Lee Turnpenny 2 Comments

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 ! […]

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Pseudoscience, Quackery, Science

(de)Romanticising energy

August 9, 2013by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

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 ! […]

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