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 …
Via Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury: Obama has an Egg of Power in the Oval Office You think I’m kidding. It’s allegedly based on some “ancient African proverb,” which means that (a) the proverb was made up by some white dude 20 years ago and (b) it …
Pope Benedict XVI seems to be on a one-man mission to wreck the credibility of the Catholic Church. On 21st January, the Vatican announced that it had lifted the excommunication of four bishops belonging to the traditionalist sect, the Society of St Pius X (SSPX). …
Further to – and probably in response to – our earlier coverage, ZENIT, the Catholic news agency who published Edward Pentin’s puff piece about CellAdam, has distanced itself from the article: CELLADAM CANCER DRUG ROME, JAN. 26, 2009 (Zenit.org).- ZENIT would like to inform readers interested …
The new year has brought an interesting development in the relationship between the state and the alternative medicine industry. On Monday the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), a register for practitioners of alternative medicine opened its doors for the first time. At first glance …
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 …
Let's hope she's got a big enough wand This article by “holistic healer” Phylameana lila Desy [sic] needs such little commentary that I’m simply going to reprint it in full. Former President George W. Bush and wife Laura evacuated the White House yesterday, making room for President Barack Obama, his …
Are Coca-Cola guilty of dodgy marketing practices? A group of law firms and pressure groups in California think they are. Led by CSPI, the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, they have attacked Coke subsidiary company Glaceau, who produce the health-marketed range ‘VitaminWater’, for …
“Imagine a medicine that has a staggering 75 per cent success rate in treating cancer, and yet is a natural and ethical product, owned by a nonprofit company headed by devout Catholics.” Well, yes, it does take a bit of imagining, not least because the …