Are Energy Efficient Boilers Any Good?

I ask because I recently received my energy usage statement from EdF and as a result I’m starting to have …

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

Letting Off Steam

2011 in review

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

Dr Aust's Spleen

(Y)ear-ily quiet

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

Letting Off Steam

A Fourth Year of Steam

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

Letting Off Steam

Detox Footbaths Make A Comeback

In his book “Bad Science”, Ben Goldacre refers to a ‘detox’ footbath in which you put your feet in a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

Letting Off Steam

Professional Councils and the Chilling of Dissent

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

Stuff And Nonsense

Dr Sarah Myhill – Yet More Dangerous Advice?

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

Stuff And Nonsense

GMC Complaint Regarding Dr Sarah Myhill

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

SciencePunk

Luke Jerram’s glass sculptures of microbes

This weekend I visited the Trauma exhibition at London's GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in ...(read more)
by SciencePunk

Stuff And Nonsense

Daily Mail Health Articles

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

Thinking Is Dangerous

What would you do if you were a celebrity Burzynski supporter?

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

Letting Off Steam

Deflecting Criticism 1 – Legal Threats

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

Letting Off Steam

The GMC Owes Stuart Jones An Apology

If anyone ever wondered why ‘Jonas’ chose to make his complaint about Dr. Sarah Myhill to the GMC ‘anonymously’, then ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

Stuff And Nonsense

Burzynski Clinic Threatens Blogger

Someone acting for the Burzynski Clinic, Burzynski Research Institute, and Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, has written to Le Canard Noir of ...(read more)
by jdc325

Letting Off Steam

Reprisal

There has been a complaint made about one Stuart Jones to the Health Professions Council alleging that he “Made disparaging ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

SciencePunk

The Information Diet – five ways to improve your data consumption

Last week I had a visit from a friend of mine, who was on something of a farewell tour. After ...(read more)
by SciencePunk

Thinking Is Dangerous

Bureau of Investigative Journalism – New ideas, old habits?

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

Letting Off Steam

Daily Mail Versus the HPV Vaccine – Again

The Daily Mail appears to be attempting to undermine the HPV vaccine program by means of an anecdote and the ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

Stuff And Nonsense

Daily Mail On HPV Vaccine

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

Letting Off Steam

The Abuses of Chelation Therapy

Chelation therapy is a method of ridding the body of toxic elements such as lead and mercury. It is a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

Stuff And Nonsense

Wakefield and MMR: New Revelations

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

Pyjamas in Bananas

Score one for Sertraline

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

Letting Off Steam

Hair Analysis & Metal Poisoning

In my last post I discussed the CAM contention that metal poisoning is common and the scientific inaccuracies peddled, such ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch

SciencePunk

Falling Walls: Modern chemistry turns lead into gold

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

SciencePunk

Falling Walls: Making a Fine Mess of Things

Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk

consider, evaluate, act

Campaigners to tell Parliament “Now is the time to reform our libel law” as further evidence of the law’s chilling effect emerges

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

SciencePunk

Falling Walls: Storing the Sun on Earth

Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk

SciencePunk

Falling Walls: New war and the need for a global emergency services

Today I'll be writing a series of blogposts from the Falling Walls conference in Berlin. Each speaker is invited ...(read more)
by SciencePunk

Letting Off Steam

Heavy Metal Poisoning

There seems to be a commonly held view in alt-med circles that many ills are due to heavy metal poisoning. ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch