The Pie Man Strikes!
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 »
The Pie gets more emphatic!
The Pie Man has the noble duty of delivering this pie chart to those who jeer at homeopathy and CAM because they consider them to be less than evidence-based. In the name of truth and beauty*, the Pie Man attempts to make it clear that most of common conventional medical interventions are far from evidence-based [...] Read more »
Double Strike for the Pie Man
The Pie Man has been alerted to an article in the American Journal of Medicine by the erstwhile Edzard Ernst and Michael Baum, his co-signee of the notorious letter (inappropriately written on NHS note paper) to Patient Care Trusts (PCTs) all over the UK. In the letter – as you can see – they attempt [...] Read more »
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 »
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 »
The Pie Man Cometh!
Welcome to my new column The Pie Man Strikes Again! Now what has a Pie Man got to do with medicine? What has a Pie Man got to do with the holy grail of evidence-based medicine? Allow me to explain… There are some doctors around today so eminent that I’ve dubbed them Physicians of the [...] Read more »
