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	10:23: My Arsenic Overdose ... by Martin
Saturday was a surreal day. First thing in the morning, I was wired up by a fly-on-the-wall documentary team before greeting the press and swallowing an entire bottle of (homeopathic) arsenic. At lunch, still alive but barely awake, I was giving phone interviews to... 8 Comments Read More
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	My Response to the British Homeopathic Association ... by Martin
Over the weekend I received a rare honour, a press release directed at me with the full intellectual might of the British Homeopathic Association behind it. The statement came after I wrote a piece for the Guardian which was published under the title "Homeopathic... 41 Comments Read More
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Society of Homeopaths launch photography rights grab

Sat, 08/21/2010 - 22:51

As a sometimes sort-of almost semi-professional photographer and a freelance mocker of bad marketing (enough plugs - ed), I have stumbled upon and mocked a great many photography rights grabs in recent years.

German Health Care Providers Might Stop Paying for Homeopathy

Mon, 07/12/2010 - 12:53

If something has to be believed in for it to work properly, it doesn't work properly.

Germany's system of mandatory universal healthcare is the oldest in Europe; in fact, we've been commies since the 1880s ...only some 3 decades after Marx and Engels wrote their Communist Manifesto.

Homeopathy and the NHS - update

Tue, 06/29/2010 - 15:47

In May, the British Medical Association's annual conference of junior doctors declared that homeopathy is witchcraft and now the BMA’s conference in Brighton has voted overwhelmingly against commissioning or funding for homeopathic remedies or homeopathic hospitals in the health service. They also want training posts in homeopathic hospitals scrapped.

What’s more, pharmacists should remove homeopathic remedies from their shelves because this strongly suggests to the public they are medicines. Instead they should be put in a section marked ‘placebos’.

Homeopathy is witchcraft Part 2

Sat, 06/26/2010 - 19:03

Tory MP David Treddinick is calling for an Early Day Motion (EDM). He has found a study that apparently shows homeopathy is beneficial in the treatment of breast cancer.

The Abstract of the Texan study begins: 'The use of ultra-diluted natural products in the management of disease and treatment of cancer has generated a lot of interest and controversy'.

In other words, here we go again.

Witchcraft & Homeopathy

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 11:19

“Homeopathy is witchcraft” said Dr Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman of the BMA’s junior doctors committee at their annual conference in May. It seems the rest of the delegates agreed, since they passed a motion denouncing the use of alternative therapies where there was no evidence for their effectiveness.

I’m no expert on medicine or homeopathy. Witchcraft on the other hand …

Is the good doctor right? Or is he recklessly impugning homeopaths? Or witches?

Homeopathy is witchcraft

Tue, 05/18/2010 - 21:44

The British Medical Association's annual conference of junior doctors has declared that homeopathy is witchcraft. They have voted for a blanket ban and an end to all placements for trainee doctors to teach them homeopathic principles.

Dr Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman of the BMA's junior doctors committee in England told the conference: "Homeopathy is witchcraft. It is a disgrace that nestling between the National Hospital for Neurology and Great Ormond Street there is a National Hospital for Homeopathy which is paid for by the NHS".

Response to homeopath's attack on skeptics.

Fri, 04/23/2010 - 13:51

This article, is a response to this article:

http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/africa-the-last-frontier-the-battle-...

I'm also going to try to post this response in their comments, to see what reply I get.

Hey, I've got a great idea to get more homeopathic treatment funded by the WHO, for treatment of AIDS and malaria in Africa.

Prove it works! Do that, and I'm sure you'll get lots of funding.

South Africa has a great reputation with homeopathy does it? If I'm not mistaken, I do believe they have the worst rates of AIDS then any other african nation, even though they are the richest? Directly a result from their AIDS denialist health ministers and head of government? What about Matthias Rath?

The Homeopaths Strike Back (The Times)

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:58

It's fair to say that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year for homeopathy so far. At the end of January, a mass public 'overdose' by critics aiming to demonstrate the fact that homeopathic remedies contain no active ingredients received widespread coverage. Weeks later, the Science & Technology Select Committee released a report that damned not just homeopathy, but the homeopaths themselves, ultimately concluding that homeopathy works no better than placebo, and that NHS funding for the alternative medicine should be scrapped.

Official. Drinking alcohol leads to hangover.

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 21:47

Hangovers offer rich pickings for complementary therapists. It's the perfect fodder for alternative medicine. Give them an affliction almost completely characterised by a progressive recovery and they will be tumbling over themselves to offer 'cures'. Staring bleary-eyed at the Sunday supplements the recommended homeopathic regime of nux vomica suddenly seem like a good idea. Rational individuals try to reason through the fog of hangover and decide to take one pill (sorry pillule – don't want to sound too allopathic) and then wait 24 hours. Hangover cured. Personally, I’d like to see a decent double-blind RCT looking at homeopathic nux vomica versus a bacon butty.

The Pod Delusion #23

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:57

10:23: My Arsenic Overdose

My Response to the British Homeopathic Association