In the wake of Jett Travolta’s death from a seizure, it is timely to present this audio recording of L. Ron Hubbard speaking about epilepsy: And then people who have epilepsy, which is a type of disease which gives them seizures, are almost always …
Jett Travolta (Picture: AP) This week, we learned that 16-year-old Jett Travolta died after hitting his head during a seizure. His parents have always denied his autism, claiming instead that he suffered from an obscure condition known as Kawasaki syndrome, contracted from “carpet-cleaning chemicals”. According …
The UK leads the way in festive boozing, various surveys have shown. Even more than the French, it is the British who drink most (per capita) during the Christmas season. But what follows, we all know, is not so much fun. On the first day …
A drug rehabilitation facility run by the “Church” of Scientology front group Narconon in Alberquerque, New Mexico, had its lease agreement terminated for violating its terms. Second Chance was only intended to house non-violent criminals from the local county jail. However, the facility housed violent …
A 75-year-old hypnotherapist was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment last Tuesday after being convicted of a series of sex assaults on young women and girls. Peter Knight is the second British hypnotherapist jailed since September, when Stephen Dyer was sentenced to five years for similar …
E equals Mariah Carey “times two”, according to Ms Carey Sense About Science, a charitable trust set up to promote to promote good science and evidence-based thinking to the public, has just published its Celebrities and Science 2008 report, naming and shaming those in the public eye …
This is the first in a series of posts by R.P. McMurphy, a team manager in a busy community mental health team, about the spread of counterknowledge in Britain’s National Health Service. The Mental Health Trust that I work for recently gained Foundation status. For …
Simon Singh One of the most vivid examples of a lack of intellectual accountability in broadcasting is the now-notorious “Alternative Medicine: The Evidence.” Broadcast on BBC2 in 2006, it suggested that patients could undergo heart surgery with no anaesthetic other than acupuncture. Thanks to the …
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 …
From the New York Times: This year […] Dr. Aaron Carroll and Dr. Rachel Vreeman of the Indiana University School of Medicine, offer six new medical myths for the holiday season. The latest set of myths, published this month in BMJ, are commonly believed by the general …