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The BMJ published yet another inconclusive paper on acupuncture, but misrepresented it in their press release. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of FASEB journal, talks straight. It seems that our letter to NHS chiefs has crossed the Atlantic. In a gloriously scholarly and funny editorial, Gerald Weissmann MD, of New York University, puts the knife into homeopathy ...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) (an executive agency of the Department of Health) states that “We enhance and safeguard the health of the public by ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably sa ...
The prince’s unconstitutional interventions in public policy continue as he launchs an organisation called Integrated Health Associates (IHA). Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
An even more than usually crackpot idea from homeopath Carol Franske is that shaking the bottle splits atomic nuclei. And a discussion on recent work which suggests that the real memory of water is even less than a millionth of a millionth of a second. Re ...
The Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ACAI) has issued a superbly reasoned analysis of about 30 allergy-related tests and treatments that “have been promoted in the absence of any scientific rationale.” [Mullins RJ. Unort ...
The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has had $842 million of taxpayers’ money and has wasted most of it. Why the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Should Be Defunded This article b ...
Unbelievably, this prime piece of postmodernist bollocks is even worse than Barry’s paper! Download the full paper here (if you can bear it). Dave Holmes RN PhD, Stuart J Murray PhD, Amelie Perron RN PhD(cand) and Genevieve Rail PhD, Int J Evi ...
The Independent has a good medical column br Dr Fred Kavalier. The column has an insert for readers’ letters. On 1st August 2006 the ‘readers write’ section had this letter “I know homeopathy has taken a bit of a bashing recently b ...
Brain Deer has produced a very detailed account of the MMR scandal. It shows the corrupting influence of money on research, and the harm done, bath by Dr Wakefield, and by the Royal Free Hospital which sought to profit from him. Read full entry on the ori ...
The Independent recommended the Helios Homeopathy Travel kit as one of its Ten Best. They made amends by publishing a letter pointing out that the pills contained nothing whatsoever. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
Dr Gleason, a Maryland psychiatrist was led away in handcuffs after taking $100 000 from a drug company. His activities in promoting ‘off-label’ uses for their drug are, of course, entirely unrelated to the money he received. Read full entry ...
The Institute of Science in Society purports to be about promoting a socially responsible approach to science. It combines some reasonable stuff about global warming with a lot of utter rubbish about homeopathy (mainly written by the Institute’s dire ...
It is often said that, although homeopathy does no good,at least it does no harm. But that is not true if using homeopathy delays diagnosis of serious disease like cancer. It is not true if homeopaths persuade you not to be vaccinated, and as a consequen ...
The Newsnight TV programme did an undercover investigation. Ten out of ten homeopaths, including two big companies Nelsons and Helios, told patients that malaria could be prevented by homeopathic pills alone. So much for the idea that homeopathy is harml ...