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Chinese medicine chain, Herbmedic, is insolvent

April 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Jump to follow-up It seems that bits of good news don’t come singly. First honours degrees in acupuncture vanish, Now a big chain of shops selling Chinese herbs and acupuncture has gone into administration. It seems that, at last, people are getting fed up with being conned out of their hard-earned money Herbmedic Barking A [...]

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Tags: ASA · Adrian White · Anti-science · CAM · Dangerous advice · Detox · Fair trading · Michael Cummings · Michael McIntyre · Traditional Chinese medicine · acupuncture · badscience · cancer · herbalism · herbmedic

The Prince of Wales joins the “Detox” fraud

January 26th, 2009 · 18 Comments

Jump to follow-up It’s only a matter of weeks since a lot of young scientists produced a rather fine pamphlet pointing out that the “detox” industry is simply fraud.  They concluded “There is little or no proof that these products work, except to part people from their cash.” With impeccable timing, Duchy Originals has just [...]

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Tags: Boots · CAM · Duchy Originals · HRH · Michael McIntyre · Nelsons · Politicians · Prince Charles · Prince of Wales · Prince's Foundation · advertisements · antiscience · badscience · herbalism