Critics of NHS homeopathy are livid about the Government’s decision to back NHS homeopathy and will probably regroup and attack again. They cannot understand how democracy has trumped their scientism but democracy is democracy.
Government officially backs the provision of NHS homeopathy
In today’s Daily Telegraph, click in his Doctor’s Diary, ailment Dr James Le Fanu expresses suspicion of the motives of homeopathy’s vociferous...
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.
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
Inane attacks on homeopathy deserve provocative ripostes. The attack on homeopathy is an insult to democracy and liberty.
A brief and provocative chat about medicine, homepathy, science and scientism.
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...
This Vodcast is unedited because I consider edited vodcasts to be slightly less than authentic. See "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...
I guess it was predictable. Despite the strong words of Health Minister, Mike O’Brien in favour of liberty and democracy, the crew of MPs on the...
Today is a red letter for NHS homeopathy, democracy and liberty in the UK. At 10.00 am this morning the MPs of the Science and Technology Committee...
Giving diseases a national identity, an inanely xenophobic practice at best, is now regarded as politically incorrect. Referring to rubella as...
In it’s TV programme Pill Poppers, Horizon has just given BBC2 viewers an unforgettable lesson in pharmacology of unprecedented educational value....
So what can we say about the year that was? There is a curse that says: ‘May you live in interesting times!’ and for those of us who support...
Dec 1, 2009: A wonderful day for British Homeopathy Here follow the immortal words of Health Minister, Mike O'Brien: 'We take the view that it is...
This week the ‘homeopathic question’ was asked by a House of Commons Science & Technology Committee. A mixture of experts and alleged ‘experts’...
This post was first published on Nov 10, 2009 but the Pie Man continues to annoy those who would use evidence based medicine to trash homeopathy...
For many years husbands or partners of women giving birth have been commended for and even expected to be present during the process of labour. It...
In one of the most innovative and enterprising moves to stop the obesity endemic in its tracks ever made by a nanny state, a prescient quango known...
I switched on the radio this morning and immediately heard extremely important news from America. Apparently the President had appointed a very FAT...
This post was first published on July 21, 2009. For a comic sketch of money and Medicine USA see this short cartoon. The suggestion by a 'think...
This post first appeared on July 9, 2009. Having become King Charles III he became patron of the Faculty of Homeopathy. In what was surely the...
In the third of this year's excellent Reith Lectures, Prof. Sandel explored Genetics and Morality. One of his points was that no matter how hard we...