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”. …
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 …
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 …