Archive for May, 2009
The Pieman Strikes!
The third person to be visited by The Pieman can come as no surprise to anyone. It is fellow doctor, Prof. David Colquhoun, a man who won’t mind me saying has devoted huge amounts of time and effort to attempt to debunk various forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). His website, is as fine [...] Read more »
Acupuncture works! But still they whine about ‘theatrical placebo’…
In a strangely incoherent article in The Mail yesterday, the journalist, Daniel Martin, epitomises the current confusion about alternative medicine that reigns in the UK and its NHS. This time it’s acupuncture that gets it in the neck – or perhaps in the back as the article speaks a lot about back pain.
Calling acupuncture (a [...] Read more »
Today is Duck Day!
The Daily Telegraph, Front page 21.05.2009
Scanning through the front pages of the newspapers today, I came across something refreshing and extraordinary – a gorgeous picture of a duck’s head on the front page of The Daily Telegraph.
Now apparently this is all about the ‘revelation’ that an MP claimed expenses concerning a ‘duck [...] Read more »
Why eminent doctors accuse CAM practitioners of lying to their patients.
In my last post I promised to give my view of why eminent physicians have grossly insulted practitioners of CAM by accusing them of lying to their patients.
For example:
Prof. David Colquhoun: Under the heading The Lying Dilemma “To maximise the benefit of alternative medicine, it is necessary to lie to the patient [...] Read more »
Smoke more for a Healthy Economy!
Oh no! I thought I was the only one provoking smokers to quit by ordering them to Smoke More!
Of course this was in the context of a session of Provocative Therapy, where I always obtain specific permission to satirise, make absurd suggestions and advise people to do more of their aberrant behaviour. Only then do [...] Read more »
