I live in Stratford in east London a ten minute walk from what used to be the Olympic village of the London 2012 games. As someone with almost zero interest in sport the games meant little to me other than a miserable commute that August, but there were some interesting points to note. One such… Read More Olympic Silliness: Cupping Harms, Not Enhances, Performance
Good news! There is another nail in the coffin of publicly funded witchcraft in the NHS. The clinical commissioning group for NHS Liverpool has decided to decommission their homeopathy service. Admittedly, they were only spending about £30,000 on the service but even one penny would have been a complete waste of scarce public money and… Read More Homeopathy Watered Down
It’s my birthday today and so I’m taking a week off. I was going to do a post on a disappointing Cochrane review of acupuncture but whilst I was researching I found that Dr Steven Novella, a personal hero of mine and someone anyone that is interested in sceptical thinking and science based medicine should… Read More Birthday Lethargy
Brace yourselves. I’ve written a post about something close to my heart: pseudoscience in healthcare. In this particular instance it is chiropractic; if I have the energy at some point I will cover other types of nonsense like homeopathy, iridology, acupuncture (yes, acupuncture doesn’t work, get over it) and other such ‘complimentary’ therapies in future… Read More Chiropractic: A Dangerous, Unethical Waste of Time
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