QUACKSONEBOWIE
“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 […]
Tag Archives: quackery
A homeopath talks shite
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 […]
Dialogue with a homeopath
In my continuing Twitter distraction phase, I’ve recently bumped into a(nother) homeopath, initially drawn by I don’t recollect what, but whatever it was stimulated a saunter over to her public website (because […]
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 […]
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 […]
A(nother) case for Coleus fornicans
Amidst the mammoth ding-dong going on over at The Telegraph, under an article entitled ‘Homeopathy on the NHS to be reviewed‘, a recent comment and ensuing sub-thread reminded me of something from […]
Lee Turnpenny 