Prince Charles new voluntary register for CAM practitioners is a joke

The new year has brought an interesting development in the relationship between the state and the alternative medicine industry. On Monday the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), a register for practitioners of alternative medicine opened its doors for the first time. At first glance …

Dodgy Originals: Prince Charles launches ‘herbal remedy’ line

Prince Charles’ Duchy Originals is about to add herbal remedies to its line-up of expensive “organic” products. In partnership with Nelsons, a major homeopathic manufacturer, the creams, pills and tinctures will be sold by Boots and Waitrose, with profits going to The Prince’s Foundation. Charles has long been …

Google Trends predicts the demise of homeopathy

Breaking news from the world of alternative medicine: homeopaths are in serious trouble. That, at least, is what current Google Trends statistics seem to suggest. One of Counterknowledge.com’s allies – the excellent Quackometer – has discovered that internet users in the UK are googling homeopathy …

Prince Charles as King: A Regal “No” to GM Crops?

To coincide with his 60th birthday, Prince Charles – a.k.a. the Prince of Counterknowledge – took the opportunity to make an important announcement via his friend and biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby. When Charles is made King, wrote Dimbleby in the Sunday Times, he will continue to …

Prince Charles and India’s ‘GM Genocide’

After his off the wall outburst concerning genetically modified crops – and, in particular, the “widespread environmental damage in India caused by the rush to mass produce GM food” – Prince Charles was rightly labelled “the Prince of Counterknowledge.” Now, his royally bad science is …

AIDS quackery comes to London

Want to find out how Africa’s AIDS can be halted without recourse to antiretroviral drugs? Then come along to the Society’s of Homeopaths’ HIV/AIDS Symposium in London on December 1. Speakers include Dr Harry van der Zee, a Dutch homeopath who runs The Amma Resonance …