Author Archive
Baum, Ernst, me and the American Journal of Medicine
Post about a correspondence between me, Ernst and Baum about an article, highly critical of homeopathy and including a misleading reference to me, published in the American Journal of Medicine. Read more »
The Pie Man is Corrected!
According to the BMJ’s Clinical Evidence, the proportion of medical interventions that are evidence-based has fallen from 13% to 11% while those of ‘Unknown Benefit’ have increased from 4 Read more »
AUTOGENIC THERAPY The one form of CAM that everybody loves! (Vodcast)
Autogenic Therapy (AT) a powerful stress-releasing and stress-proofing technique is introduced. It is helpful in many stress-related medical conditions. Read more »
“Homeopathy is Witchcraft.” Should Homeopaths now be burnt at the stake?
Inane attacks on homeopathy deserve provocative ripostes. The attack on homeopathy is an insult to democracy and liberty. Read more »
‘LAUGHERCISE’: More evidence for the Health Benefits of Laughter.
More evidence for the therapeutic benefits of laughter. Read more »
On Science and Scientism (Vodcast: Evidence based Medicine)
A brief and provocative chat about medicine, homepathy, science and scientism. Read more »
Vodcast: What exactly is Homeopathy?
This Sunday at 10am I’ll be giving a lecture called Defending Homeopathy in the 21st Century for the Homeopathic Medical Association. There is no doubt that homeopathy needs defending in the UK at the moment as the attacks on it, while lacking innovation, have been relentless and vicious with little space granted to us in [...] Read more »
Reverse Psychology in Advertising Campaign
One of the central tenets of Provocative Therapy is that people don’t like being told what to do. This is probably due to the fact that we often perceive advice (even when well meant) to be patronising and condescending. Thus Provocative Therapists utilise a variety of specially designed tools that use clinical reverse psychology to [...] Read more »
Vodcast: Homeopathy Defended
This Vodcast is unedited because I consider edited vodcasts to be slightly less than authentic. See “Why that parliamentary report was disingenuous” for related content. Read more »
Why that parliamentary report was disingenuous
I have gone on record as saying two things about the Science and Technology Committee’s report on Homeopathy: It is one of the least impressive documents to emerge from the House of Commons for some time. It is in at least one part deeply disingenuous. Yes, yes I know you want evidence. Well my first [...] Read more »
