Feature Articles
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 »
How to Achieve Happiness: The Evidence
For many years the high ground on happiness has been held by the gurus of positive affirmations and mantras. Books and films by the thousands extolled the value of ‘postive thinking’. But has there been any evidence that these bestsellers actually made anyone any happier – apart from their authors and publishers of course? Now [...] Read more »
First Strike for the Pie Man
In my last post, I warned that anybody using ‘lack of evidence’ as a club with which to bash homeopathy or other well-established complementary medical approaches exclusively – will be visited by the Pie Man. The Pie Man exists purely to bring closer to the attention of these critics that a mere 13% of commonly [...] Read more »
How to embarrass your GP
Wow – Talk about empowering patients! Now there is going to be an NHS website where you can rate your GP. This fantastic and innovative idea should certainly keep doctors on their toes. They should introduce this in cricket too. The crowd, rather than the TV umpire/referees sitting in their ivory towers sipping sherry, should [...] Read more »
