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Several of the people who contributed to, and/or appeared in, the BBC2 series on alternative medicine, have complained that they were treated “like marionettesâ€, and that the programme was sensationalised and uncritical, Read full entry on the ...
The Office of Fair Trading has taken Magno-Pulse Ltd to the High Court after they refused to stop what the OFT regards, quit rightly, as misleading advertising. This is the company whose magnets have just been approved by the PPA for prescription on the N ...
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 P ...
Emails in my possession show that the Chiron Clinic is able to decide that nutritional supplements are needed for leg ulcers on the basis of an email (as well as magnets of course). Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
Nobody knows the cost! But here is some information that I found by use of the Freedom of Information Act 2000… Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
[This post was transferred from the old Improbable Science page] It’s not just homeopathy. The Sunday Times, (26 February, 2006) reports that the National Health Service has fallen for another scam. “IT COULD be called the Cleopatra Effe ...
Jump to Open University course K221 Jump to follow-up BBC2 TV showed a much-advertised series on alternative medicine, in February 2006. The programmes seem to be linked with a dubious Open University course. The programmes are presented by Kathy Sykes ...
This is a slightly modified version of some thoughts from the old improbable science page, where they formed part of the review of a BBC2 series on alternative medicine. It has been moved to the new blog because of the comments posted here. Evolution of p ...
A good chance was missed to convey the facts and the science. Well below the BBC’s usual standard for science programmes. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
This entry has been transferred from the old IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page.. The Open University is a great institution. Its first vice-chancellor was Walter Laing Macdonald Perry . Before he took that job, he was professor of Pharmacology in Edinburgh (and o ...
An article on the death of homeopathy, There has been long enough to get evidence, but it is not there. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. ...
On 21 November, 2005, Dr David Spence appeared on the BBC’s Today Programme. He was being interviewed about a report that, he said, provided evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathy. In fact it does nothing of the sort. Dr Spence’s paper ...
The Daily Telegraph recently published two reports about acupuncture. One said it worked. The other said it didn’t work. Needle cure effect ‘is not all in the mind’ By Catriona Davies, starts Acupuncture has a genuine ability to relieve ...
This letter to The Times points out the folly of making regulations that do not require any demonstration that the product works. Can you imagine a regulation for television sets that required only that they do no harm, but did not specify that they should ...
This is the story of my first incursion in to the fantasy world of alternative medicine. I was asked by the producer of a television programme (QED) to look at a paper that claimed a beneficial effect of homeopathic treatment of fibrositis (Fisher, P., Gr ...