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Sceptics, skeptics, Homeopathy and ‘soft targets’

An article in the latest edition of that very non-treehugging journal Scientfic American by a self-confessed skeptic (spelled with a 'k' because he's American and with an 's' very deliberately in lower case for reasons he makes clear), John Horgan, shows how self-styled 'sceptics' specifically attack 'soft targets' such as homeopathy (which he mentions specifically) while [...]

By |2016-05-18T14:36:33+01:00May 18th, 2016|Current Affairs, Homeopathy|Comments Off on Sceptics, skeptics, Homeopathy and ‘soft targets’

Anti-Depressives: Some rather depressing news

I've never liked the word 'depression'. The Victorians referred more accurately to chronic sadness as 'melancholia'. Psychiatry has struggled for decades to find a chemical solution by which to 'treat the brain' in order to alleviate this awful problem.  Success has been hard to come by and both the psychoanalytic school of thought and the anti-psychiatry [...]

By |2016-02-04T16:21:44+00:00February 4th, 2016|Current Affairs, Health, Psychotherapy|Comments Off on Anti-Depressives: Some rather depressing news