Comedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wales: editorial in...
Jump to follow-up The Yuletide edition of the BMJ carries a lovely article by Jeffrey Aronson, Patent medicines and secret remedies. (BMJ 2009;339:b5415). I was delighted to be asked to write an...
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University of Buckingham does the right thing. The Faculty of Integrated...
Jump to follow-up This post recounts a complicated story that started in January 2009, but has recently come to what looks like a happy ending. The story involves over a year’s writing of letters and...
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Buckinghamgate: the new “College of Medicine” arising from the ashes of the...
Jump to follow-up Suggested twitter tag: #buckgate Number 19 Buckingham Street, London WC2N 6EF.is to be the home of the proposed "College of Medicine" that has arisen from the ashes of the late...
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Don’t be deceived. The new “College of Medicine” is a fraud and delusion
Jump to follow-up The Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Integrated Health shut down amidst scandal in April 2010. In July, we heard that a new “College of Medicine” was to arise from its ashes. It seemed...
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Despite the spin, Lewith’s paper surely signals the end of homeopathy (again)
Jump to follow-up I’m bored stiff with that barmiest of all the widespread forms of alternative medicine, homeopathy. It is clearly heading back to where it was in 1960, a small lunatic fringe of...
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George Lewith’s private practice. Another case study.
Jump to follow-up Professor George Lewith is perhaps the most prominent advocate of alternative medicine within quackademia, at least in Russell Group University. He claims to be a member of “The...
View ArticleA thoroughly dangerous charity: YesToLife promotes nonsense cancer treatments
Jump to follow-up An email yesterday alerted me to YesToLife. This outfit seemed to me to be so dangerous that a word of warning is in the public interest. Their own description says “YES TO LIFE is a...
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The diary: June 2011 – May 2012
Jump to latest diary entries Jump to comments This is a story of everyday researchers and teachers, struggling to do their job in a world pervaded by management bollocks. This page is a continuation...
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Apologists for Andrew Wakefield at Southampton University: a Russell group...
Jump to follow-up Almost all the revelations about what’s taught on university courses in alternative medicine have come from post-1992 universities. (For readers not in the UK, post-1992 universities...
View ArticleDr Elizabeth Thompson of Bristol Homeopathic Hospital finds that pills that...
It is a good thing that clinical trials have to be registered, but is not good that there is no obligation to reveal the outcome. Many are never published. Nobody knows quite why they are not published...
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University of Westminster shuts down naturopathy, nutritional therapy, but...
There’s been no official announcement, but four more of Westminster’s courses in junk medicine have quietly closed. For entry in 2011 they offer University of Westminster (W50) qualification Chinese...
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The demise of quackademia. Progress in the last 5 years leaves Michael...
Jump to follow-up Since writing about anti-scientific degrees in Nature (March 2007), much has been revealed about the nonsense that is taught on these degrees. New Year’s day seems like a good time to...
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The College of Medicine is in the pocket of Crapita Capita. Is Graeme Catto...
Jump to follow-up The College of Medicine is well known to be the reincarnation of the late unlamented Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health. I labelled it as a Fraud and Delusion, but that...
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Policy-based evidence. Department of Health and Prince’s Foundation censor...
Jump to follow-up “In causing NHS Choices to publish content that is less than completely frank about the evidence on homeopathy, the DH have compromised the editorial standards of a website that they...
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If your baby is crying, what do you do? Stick pins in it
Jump to follow-up This piece is almost identical with today’s Spectator Health article. This week there has been enormously wide coverage in the press for one of the worst papers on acupuncture that...
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