Just in case you haven’t seen it, Counterknowledge.com is reproducing a blog post about the Society of Homeopaths by Quackometer that has been banned by the Net Authority. Since then, it has spread as fast as, well, a virus treated by homeopathic methods. Here it …
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 …
No. Of course they didn’t. How can I be so sure? Because no respected historian has ever written anything to suggest that they did. Good enough? Not for some. Worryingly – amazingly – one of those who thinks Muslims did discover America before Columbus works …
An interesting proverb from the world of spying on Monday night’s Cult of the Suicide Bomber on Channel 4. The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet explained that the Wall forced suicide bombers to find accomplaces to help them into Israel, who tells his best …
In 2001, the Journal of Reproductive Medicine published a paper in which researchers at Columbia medical school claimed that long-distance prayer doubled the success of in-vitro fertilisation. Here’s the abstract: Does Prayer Influence the Success of in Vitro Fertilization–Embryo Transfer: Report of a Masked, Randomized Trial Kwang …
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 …