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Entries Tagged as 'Ver. tegen de Kwaksalverij'

The original Dutch anti-quackery society: vice-chancellor narrowly misses prize

October 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments

It was a great delight to visit Amsterdam on 25 October to speak at a meeting off the Vereniging tegen de Kwaksalverij (Society against quackery).  Unfortunately their excellent web site is in Dutch, so the best you can do at the moment is to use the Google translation, with its frequently hilarious renderings.  Better translations [...]

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