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George Lewith, who is an advocate of CAM research, appears to have rather different standards in his private clinic. Some interesting emails have come into my possession recently. They concern the Centre for Complementary and Integrated Medicine, which giv ...
A lovely article by Dominic Lawson, in The Independent. [moved from the old IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page.] Can you tell the difference between homeopaths and witch doctors? The answer is: witch doctors are not publicly funded within the NHS. Not so far, anyway ...
This an essay by Alan Sokal, published in Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, edited by Garrett G. Fagan (Routledge, 2006), pp. 286-361. It is available on-line. This is a wonderful essay. It cou ...
The Prince of Wales addressed the World Health Organisation in Geneva. Some bits were excellent, but in the end it was irresponsible, dishonest, and perhaps unconstitutional too. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
This letter was sent to the chief executives of 476 NHS Trusts (acute and primary care trusts). It was the main headline in The Times, and the lead item on the BBC’s Today Programme. From Professor Michael Baum and others 19th May 2006 Dear Re U ...
This is a follow-up of the poat on BBC2 and the Open University on Alternative Medicine. Following the article by Simon Singh in the Guardian (25 March 2006), two letters appeared on April 1, 2006. The first, from Prof. Edzard Ernst, confirmed that he felt ...
There’s no remedy for the Prince of Quacks This is the title of a piece by Francis Wheen in the London Evening Standard, 16 May 2006. Francis Wheen is the author of the Top ten delusions. “Prince Charles travels to Geneva next week to deliv ...
This is a topic that I have kept well away from, because I have an obvious vested interest: “no pipe, no algebra”. But the topic does make an interesting example of the effect of political correctness on people who are otherwise impeccable i ...
A bizarre organisation called the NHS Trusts Association promotes not only homeopathy, but even wackier things like ‘crystal therapy’. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
An Edinburgh hospital is to supply aromatherapy on the NHS. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
The Amsterdam Medical Disciplinary Tribunal has struck off one doctor and suspended two others for their exclusive use of complementary treatments, resulting in the death of a woman. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
Trust Boots Boots the Chemists (now Alliance Boots) is a very big business in the UK. There have 1,450 pharmacies in the UK and employ over 100,000 people. I posted the item below a while ago, on the old Improbable Science page. I thought it deserved a b ...
Here is a link to a fascinating collection of essays that discuss “disease mongering”. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
Well this beats everything. Following the advice of the PPA, I re-submitted my request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Health (DoH), which is where the PPA claimed to to have sent very single bit of information concerning their d ...
In the discussion of magnets on the Badscience site, a Michael King says that 4ulcercare will be included in Part IX of the Drug Tariff because it meets the criteria of the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA). I presume this Michael King is Director of Pl ...