News that the NHS will offer acupuncture to back pain sufferers has delighted some. For a start, as the Guardian reports, the condition costs the UK over £5.1bn annually and leads to 5m lost working days. It affects, we are told, “one in three adults …
You see, you create your own reality, but reality also creates you, via a vacuum that, unlike other vacuums, is “crystalline”. Well done to Echan Deravy and his flagging Earth Pilgrims project for uncovering this genius. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe …
Christian think-tank Theos just released their report “Reclaiming Darwin”, a rallying-cry to religious people everywhere to reject creationist nonsense and enter into a dialogue to think about how science and religion coexist. Which would be an innocuous cause if it weren’t for the fact that …
One of AMI's more subtle ads The ads exhort readers to face up to their crippling erectile dysfunction issues, restore their confidence, and take charge of their lives. Or put more simply: “Bonk Longer”. But this isn’t just standard-issue inbox spam. Instead the ads are …
A worrying trend in the NHS at the moment is to offer “catch-all therapies” that claim to help with numerous different ailments. One such therapy that is gaining momentum within several Primary Care Trusts is Human Givens Therapy. It is also endorsed by the usually …
Exposing counterknowledge is often difficult: some snake oil salesmen are really clever con-artists. Others, however, are quite simply lunatics. Peddlars of “radionics” fall squarely into the latter category. According to “The Radionic Association in Oxford, England”, quoted on altered-states.net, radionics is “a method of healing at …
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” according to Dr Thomas Pollet, a psychologist from Newcastle University who was quoted in a Sunday Times story on January 18. Dr Pollet and his co-author Professor Daniel Nettle had a look at data from the …
The broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough is a recipient of religious hate mail, he has revealed. Speaking about his new documentary on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the 82 year-old said the letters told him “to burn in hell and good riddance”. Sir …
What kind of a person names a miracle cure after themselves? Ádám Kovács Damian Thompson has already dissected the vacuous puff-piece that appeared this week about the so-called miracle cure CellAdam. If one ever needs to find a perfect example of the modus operandi of quackery, …
Uh-huh. Charlie Brooker writes today about a new TV station crammed full of conspiracy theories, Edge Media TV, which broadcasts programmes with titles like Question Everything and Hidden Agenda, and a talkshow called Esoteria, which according to the host is “a SHOW, not a PROGRAMME …