Letting Off Steam
Deflecting Criticism 2 – Ad Hom Attacks
A favoured tactic of people who are finding the evidence against them a little overwhelming and difficult to refute is ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Aggregating the best of the blogs on science and pseudoscience
A favoured tactic of people who are finding the evidence against them a little overwhelming and difficult to refute is ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
It’s been a considerable while since I posted here (even by my laggard-ly standards), so I thought I would use ...(read more)
by draust
It’s New Year’s Eve and time for my review of the year. As usual, the dominant theme was health quackery ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
In his book “Bad Science”, Ben Goldacre refers to a ‘detox’ footbath in which you put your feet in a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
It is hard not to take the verdict of the Health Professions Council’s case against Stuart Jones as a warning ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
I’ve written about Dr Myhill several times now. Previously, I’ve pointed out various incorrect assertions and unsubstantiated claims relating specifically ...(read more)
by jdc325
Having originally written about Dr Sarah Myhill’s views on vaccination in April last year, detailing some of the most obviously ...(read more)
by jdc325
This weekend I visited the Trauma exhibition at London's GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
The Daily Mail is known to some as The People’s Medical Journal for its love of health stories. Particularly health ...(read more)
by jdc325
Setting forth to compare life insurance, there are a number of indemnity options available. Life insurance Australia shoppers should look ...(read more)
by admin
Science plays an interesting role in the world of life insurance, both for insurance companies and potential clients. Due to ...(read more)
by admin
Firstly, a quick redux.Stanislaw Burzynski runs a clinic in the US which claims to be able to cure people of ...(read more)
by Dr* T
So you’ve got some sweet deal going – might be alternative medicine, might be hi-fi tweaks. Whatever it is, some ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
If anyone ever wondered why ‘Jonas’ chose to make his complaint about Dr. Sarah Myhill to the GMC ‘anonymously’, then ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Someone acting for the Burzynski Clinic, Burzynski Research Institute, and Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, has written to Le Canard Noir of ...(read more)
by jdc325
There has been a complaint made about one Stuart Jones to the Health Professions Council alleging that he “Made disparaging ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Last week I had a visit from a friend of mine, who was on something of a farewell tour. After ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
This post is a venture away from the usual (and more recently intermittent) blogposts about dodgy quacks, silly products and ...(read more)
by Dr* T
The Daily Mail appears to be attempting to undermine the HPV vaccine program by means of an anecdote and the ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
The Daily Mail have published an article about the HPV vaccine. You won’t be surprised to learn that the tone ...(read more)
by jdc325
Chelation therapy is a method of ridding the body of toxic elements such as lead and mercury. It is a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
A guest blog post from a UK Doctor New revelations and implications about Andrew Wakefield’s research work. For anyone who ...(read more)
by jdc325
On the basis of some accumulating evidence of dose dependent QT prolongation with citalopram the manufacturer Lundbeck has issued new guidance on ...(read more)
by pj
In my last post I discussed the CAM contention that metal poisoning is common and the scientific inaccuracies peddled, such ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited to ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
Campaigners seeking to refine the Government's Defamation Bill will tell MPs and Peers why English and Welsh libel laws are ...(read more)
by teekblog
Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk
Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk