Last night I found myself talking to a very senior Oxford academic about Creationism. To my dismay – but not to my surprise – she seemed to imagine that this noxious pseudoscience is largely confined to American fundamentalist Christian circles. Not true. In the 21st …
The news that acupuncture works better than non-needle therapies for the relief of back pain might seem to be good news for acupuncturists. Not so. Take another look at the figures. What the German survey of 1,200 sufferers actually shows is that traditional acupuncture is …
So Boris Johnson thinks that degrees in aromatherapy are a good thing. Please, tell me you’re joking, Boris. Aromatherapy may be “vocational” but in addition to being a Mickey Mouse subject it is pseudoscience. You might as well use taxpayers’ money to teach Scientology. The …