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Dara O’Briain biles far better than I could

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:45:40 +0000

The awesomely funny Dara O’Briain has a pop at some of our favourite subjects here, nutritionists and homeopathy:

And that elusive old feller, God:

These cheered me up no end.

Homeopathic Accident and Emergency

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:01:37 +0000

Priceless:

Annabel Croft pushes homeopathy

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:19:13 +0000

Great news! Sugar pills cure everything! Annabel Croft says so! You know her, she used to hit balls round a bit. Won a couple of trophies and went on to her greatest triumph: Treasure Hunt.

I really hope the Telegraph are pushing this waffle ironically. Too much to ask for?

Homeopathy warning – Rogue Medic

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:19:33 +0000

Rogue Medic is my new favourite blog.

First he gives a super s3kr1t internal memo from the homeopathy cabal.

Then some fun and games with homeopathy week including the gem “remember to pay your homeopath a penny since it retains the memory of all the other money it’s been in contact with”. Teehee.

Then also in wooville, the hospital offering reiki “massage” for trauma patients.

Apologies for the lack of cock. I’m baking my ass off in Lisbon. How’s the weather in London?

Luls and yuks all round.

Turns out homeopathy isn’t harmless

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:08:40 +0000

Especially when you spike your water/sugar pills with Zinc.

Fuckwits.

Homeopathy exploiting poor countries

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:49:03 +0000

DC’s Science has an excellent and thorough demolition of the current state of homeopathy.

I don’t really have much to add to this. There’s much to be happy about on this front. All the university degrees in the UK have disappeared and Neal’s Yard got a pasting.

And this made I chuckle.

Keep calm and carry on.

Go Australia! Homeopaths guilty of manslaughter.

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:15:55 +0000

DC Science reports that the Australian homeopaths are guilty of manslaughter in the death of their child.

Result.

It shouldn’t have been necessary if people didn’t believe their delusions.

A thoughful coda on the Neal’s Yard thingy

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:06:28 +0000

Far better balanced and thoughtful than I could manage in the face of such naive stupidity, Herr Doktor Professor Cross sums up the situation nicely. Well done that man.

Neal’s Yard Remedies in customer engagement failure

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:11:30 +0000

Ooops. Be very careful when attempting to purvey quackery and engage with an enlightened, educated, skeptical audicence. Much hilarity ensues in the comments.

But before we get too smug at those fluffy unicorns in Covent Garden, take a moment to remember that counterknowledge also carries harm. The trial for manslaughter of the daughter of an Australian homeopath continues. The death penalty is a little stiff, but should one of them get a serious illness, maybe they should eat their own dogfood and be treated homeopathically?

On a lighter note, Counterknowledge reports of homeopathy believers that “…most thought that homeopathic remedies were either moderately or very concentrated.“

More woo than a WW2 siren: quantum healing

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:04:15 +0000

A bonus cockbucket for you today. Before I was exposed to the lovely Ben Goldacre, not like that you smutty people, I confess I had some vague feeling that there might be something in some of this alternative medicine stuff. Turns out, it was crap. Simple proposition: if there was anything in any of it, it wouldn’t be alternative would it? There’s no conspiracy. If it worked, your GP and the fine upstanding drugs companies, possibly even NICE, would be all over it.

It doesn’t fucking work.

It doesn’t stop stupidity like “The Secret”, or anything with “quantum” in the title roping in a bunch of suckers and making the perpetrators at the top of the pyramid a fuckload of money.

Then I came across this absolute beauty. It has everything: DNA, resonance, quantum, chakras, sacred geometry and much, much more! All you need to do is watch a video and listen to some special music.

Tell you what, I’ll listen to some trip hop and watch my screensaver for a bit. We can even get a bunch of people to do and and collate the results?