Homeopathy is building an empire. A registered charity based in the UK, called Frontline Homeopathy, exports this alternative “medicine” to the poorest parts of the world to “promote homeopathy as an effective, low cost primary health care system in communities disadvantaged by social, economic and …
The CIA created Facebook and is using it to spy on students. This claim is made by a Facebook group with 776 members worldwide. There are 84 others with similar claims – a combined membership of 7,656. But, says the group’s founder, a US student: …
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries two extracts from Counterknowledge. Here is the link, and here is how the first piece starts… George Bush planned the September 11 attacks. The MMR injection triggers autism in children. The ancient Greeks stole their ideas from Africa. “Creation science” disproves …
Congratulations to Ben Goldacre for a terrific onslaught on homeopathy in the Guardian. There must be tens of thousands of Guardian readers who dabble in this 200-year-old witchcraft; perhaps Ben will finally succeed in penetrating what the Catholic Church (itself no stranger to counterknowledge) used …
Here’s a gem of a quote from a master of medical counterknowledge. “I’m not sure how much credibility these pointy-heads have,” says Dr Michael Dixon, trustee of The Prince of Wales’s Foundation for Integrated Medicine, quoted in today’s Daily Telegraph guide to “top health gurus”. …