Archive for October, 2008
That debate at UCL
This House would no longer make homeopathic treatment available on the NHS: For: 65 Against: 53 In abstention: 37 The motion was therefore carried. You can see Prof. Colquhoun’s comments and hopefully my reply on the UCL debate website. No count (as is done by Intelligence Squared debates) was taken before the debate but clearly [...] Read more »
Homeopathy on Trial: the debate and the letter
On Monday night, the 20th October 2008, I will attend a debate at University College London at 7.00 pm. The motion is: ‘This House believes homeopathy should not be available on the NHS’ The debate is free and open to all and this is how you get there. Speaking against the motion: Dr Peter Fisher [...] Read more »
The BMJ pie that doth mislead us all
Maybe I should give up talking about how homeopathy has served this country well for nearly 200 years. I thought I presented a convincing expose of the apparent ‘evidence basis’ of orthodox medicine using a pie (chart) published by that well-known supporter of all things alternative, wacky and charlatan – The British Medical Journal’s Handbook [...] Read more »
The BMJ Pie that doth mislead us all
Maybe I should give up talking about how homeopathy has served this country well for nearly 200 years. I thought I presented a convincing expose of the apparent ‘evidence basis’ of orthodox medicine using a pie published by that well-known supporter of all things alternative, wacky and charlatan – The British Medical Journal’s Handbook of [...] Read more »
Lying? Who is lying?
Okay I now withdraw my surrender. I don’t surrender to the ‘logic’ of Ernst and Singh, the noble bearers of truth and light to an apparently ignorant public who are unable to choose for themselves and need the nanny state to prevent them making stupid choices. I now promise to fight them on the beaches [...] Read more »
Doctors and Scientists in Glass Houses
It seems that my last post has made things just a little less than comfortable for stone throwers living in glass houses. (aka as critics of homeopathy who assume that most of conventional medicine is clearly ‘evidence-based’.) Some are even desperately appealing to colleagues for reinforcement. Unfortunately for them it’s not easy to sell houses [...] Read more »
