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The media reports on the alleged advantages of drinking purple grape juice were uniformly misleading. The study by Alan Crozier did not measure health benefits but was a chemical analysis. Its interpretation in terms of health were arguably over-optimist ...
A TV company funded a rather uninformative study of omega-3 fish oil by Prof Basant Puri if Imperial College and the Hammersmith Hospital. The media reports on the study were totally misleading It was not revealed that Prof Puri is named as “inven ...
This is reposted from the old IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page The British Medical Journal (2007, 337, 508 – 509) held a debate on whether or not CAM should be referred for evaluation to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) [see it here]. T ...
Channel 4 TV, Monday 12th March. This is the title of the Channel 4 TV documentary, Dispatches. Lord Wedderburn, QC, a life peer and Emeritus Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, tells the programme: “If, in fact, nothing changed and he b ...
Two interesting papers. One shows popular anti-oxidant ‘supplements’, beta carotene, and vitamins A and D, far from making you live longer, have the opposite effect. Another shows that garlic does not lower cholesterol. And some publicity for ...
Last night I saw a magnificent ENO production of La Bohème at the London Coliseum. During the tear-wrenching death of Mimi in the last act, it occurred to me that if we had taken advice from homeopaths and the like, people would still be dying young fr ...
Another purveyor of nutribollocks who has been dissected and exposed by Ben Goldacre. His views on AIDS are a menace to humanity. And, incredibly his course has been accredited by the University of Bedfordshire (formerly known as the University of Luton). ...
Using potassium dichromate to treat patients in intensive care (rather than to clean the glassware)? No, that isn’t a joke. The respectable journal, Chest, official journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, published an article that purp ...
This week’s abusive email For a bit of light amusement, I decided to publish the occasional bit ot email correspondence. This one arrived on 9th Feb 2007. From: “Stephanie Ginn”To: d.colquhoun@ucl.ac.uk Subject: homoeopathic medicine ...
On Monday 5 Feb 2007, the BBC ran a piece entirled Alternative therapy put on trial. It started “An experiment in allowing NHS patients easier access to alternative and complementary therapies has been launched by NI Secretary Peter Hain.” ...
BBC’s You and Yours programme (a lunchtime consumer programme) ran a good piece on “Helps Stop Snoring”, a dubious herbal “remedy” for snoring. They picked up the story from my site. Listen to the programme [mp3 file] “ ...
BBC’s Panorama programme broadcast the content of secret emails. They show that GSK was aware of evidence the Seroxat increased risk of suicide in young patients, and suppressed it. They also showed that Prof Martin Keller’s paper on the topic ...
Misleading advertising of magnets. Office of Fair Trading acts A major problem in stopping CAM fraud is the generally toothless attitude of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Office of Fair Trading. Not this time though. The OFT Press Release ...
Les Rose debates with homeopath Katherine Armitage on the Vanessa Feltz show on BBC Radio London. Listen to the clip to hear some of the best pseudo-scientific gobbeldygook on record. Read full entry on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. Share this:Pri ...
In the course of a long correspondence with the MHRA about their endorsement of a dishonest label for a herbal preparation, arnica gel, I eventually got an admission from them that the stuff doesn’t work. For earlier episodes in this saga, see part 1 ...