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This morning I noticed a Daily Mail poll for the winner of last night’s leaders’ debate, so I cast my vote The results looked like this Click to enlarge (This picture was recorded after lunch at 14.29, so it says I’d already voted.) At ...
Jump to follow-up There is something very offensive about the idea that a ‘bachelor of science’ degree can be awarded by a university, as a prize for memorising gobbledygook. Once the contents of the ‘degrees’ has been exposed to pu ...
Yet another university has stopped its homeopathy course. The particular interest of this course was that it was being run at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, the vice-chancellor which was Michael Pittilo, until his recent premature death. Pittilo is t ...
Jump to follow-up This post recounts a complicated story that started in January 2009, but has recently come to what looks like a happy ending. The story involves over a year’s writing of letters and meetings, but for those not interested in th ...
Malaria in the news, yet again. Today I had a not-very-friendly letter from Kate Birch From: kate birch <katebhom@hotmail.com> To: david colquhoun <d.colquhoun@ucl.ac.uk> Subject: FW: Abha Light Products: Announcing NEW MalariX In ...
JJump to follow-up Update 12 March. Six more dimwits signed. An‘early day motion1 (EDM 908) has been tabled in parliament which opposes the conclusions of the science and technology committee report on the evidence for homeopathy. After two weeks it ...
Jump to follow-up Balance in reporting | Call You and Yours | Report on regulation | Cancer video In the wake of the report by the Science and Technology Committee (STC) on the lack of evidence for homeopathy, and the Chinese medicine poisoning, th ...
Jump to follow-up Yes, it’s that most boring of non-medicine topics, homeopathy, again. At lunchtime on Thursday I got a call from a Times journallst, Fay Schopen, to ask if I could do 500 words on the Science and Technology Committee’s E ...
Jump to follow-up What follows is mostly from the press release for the report of the Science and Technology Select Committee’s report on homeopathy. Comments on their hearings can be found in Comedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wa ...
Jump to follow-up I had never intended to write about climate. It is too far from the things I know about. But recent events have unleashed a Palin-esque torrent of comments from people who clearly know even less about it than I do. In any case, it pr ...
Jump to follow-up Every single request for information about course materials in quack medicine that I have ever sent has been turned down by universities, It is hardly as important as as refusal of FoI requests to see climate change documents, but it d ...
Jump to follow-up I don’t know about you, but I’m bored stiff with homeopathy. There are a lot more important things. Nevertheless, it remains a gross insult to reason, and there has been such enormous success in combating it over the last five ...
Jump to follow-up The purpose of this post is to reveal a few samples of things that are taught on a homeopathy ‘degree’ course. The course in question was the "BSc Hons homeopathy course at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). En ...
Can’t resist another bit of straight plagiarism. In this week’s Times Higher Education, the inimitable Laurie Taylor wrote this. Rock around the clock Professor Georgina Kunzite, the Head of our Department of Crystal Healing, has reacted ...
There is no topic more widely discussed than what one should eat in order to stay healthy. And there are few topics where there evidence is so lacking in quality. This post isn’t about quackery, but about something much more important. it is about t ...