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Dead baby’s parents ignored advice: QC
THE parents of a nine-month-old girl who died from septicemia were responsible for their baby’s death because they shunned conventional medical treatment for her eczema in favour of homeopathic...
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Quack remedies spread by virtue of being useless
Eating a vulture won’t clear a bad case of syphilis nor will a drink made of rotting snakes treat leprosy, but these and other bogus medical treatments spread precisely because they don’t work. That’s...
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Quacking Like a Duck
One of the oft heard complaints about modern medicine is that it’s dominated by “big pharma,” that is greedy, soulless corporations who lie to us and suppress less expensive and more effective...
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Chiropocalypse
READ THE FULL ENTRY AT “BAD ASTRONOMY” The first panicky retreat in the war on free speech in the UK has begun. As I wrote last week, the British Chiropractic Association is suing science journalist...
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FDA Warns Web Sites against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims
READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY AT “FDA.GOV” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is enforcing the laws that protect consumers from illegal products marketed through the Internet that claim to diagnose,...
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Quack Clinics
READ THE FULL ENTRY AT SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE Reuters recently reported on the raid of a stem-cell clinic in Hungary. This is welcome news, if the allegations are correct, but really is only scratching...
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Skepquote of the day
Homeopathic “remedies” are licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority. But Professor Michael Baum, of University College London, says: “This is like licensing a witches’...
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Psychic Detectives Allow Murderer to Escape Death Penalty
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT LIVESCIENCE Last month I pointed out how a self-proclaimed psychic detective failed to help find a young girl,Jaycee Dugard, who had been abducted and held captive for...
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Homeopathy by the (mind-boggling) numbers
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT TIMESONLINE I have just purchased a packet of Boots-brand 84 arnica homeopathic 30C Pills for £5.09, which Boots proudly claim is only 6.1p per pill. Their in-store advice...
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Head of ATSC ‘bomb detector’ company arrested on suspicion of fraud
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT TIMESONLINE The boss of a British company that has sold million of dollars worth of “bomb detectors” to Iraq’s security forces has been arrested on suspicion of fraud....
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