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 […]
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 […]
Far be it from me to pay tribute to the great Albert Einstein, but on the day that another of his predictions is borne out, his brilliant genius recalls some (edited) previous words: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The announcement that the National Secular Society has made Joey Barton a honorary associate doesn’t really grate on my ego, despite several years of paying membership subscriptions and penning the occasional […]