People keep telling me that quackery is harmless. It’s all a bit of fun, they aren’t harming anyone. However this could not be further from the truth, purveyors of Woo are not only defrauding vulnerable people but they can also contributing to serious health issues and even death. The worst offenders are the Alternative Medicine scams.
Archive for the ‘Alternative Medicine’ Category
In a shocking turn of events, Meryl Dorey, President of the Australian Vaccination Network for almost 17 years, has stepped down from her position leading the prominent vaccine-awareness group.
Citing reasons such as a lack of funds behind the AVN and the fact that her children have likely suffered due to her activism, Dorey broke the news via […]
What’s popular on the internet? Disliking things. Also, lists of things. So in that spirit, here is my list of those who earned the largest amount of dislike from me as a skeptic in 2009. The frauds, the true believers, the complete and utter manic anti-science spazmos.
It’s been an interesting and eventful year. Simon Singh’s […]
A few days ago I went to the “Mind , body , wallet” festival. Those of you who followed the YAS twitter updates would have known I saw quite a few interesting things, but now I will elaborate on my journey. I went with one of my sceptical minded friends and his partner. All three […]
Here’s something recent from those bastions of intellectual excellence over at the Australian Vaccination Network mailing list. (Spelling and grammar mistakes are quoted verbatim, they’re not mine. :)
Over at Natural News (your number one site for premier manure) the staff are flipping out over this study that has suggested a connection between the XMRV virus and chronic fatigue syndrome. The paranoia starts in early, with the claim that…
“What you need to know is that this disinformation is laying the groundwork for a future […]
In a recent episode of National Interest on ABC Radio National, host Peter Mares interviewed Mark Butler, the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health, and Dr Ken Harvey, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at La Trobe University, on the topic of the marketing of medicines in Australia.
Ever noticed how the “proofs” offered up for positions of belief such as religion or pseudoscience always seem to rely heavily on the weight of personal anecdote? Funny that.
Ok so I have been reading far too many blogs lately and its getting to the point where my eyeballs stay fixed in one spot and it hurts to look further than the computer screen. What I need is a remedy for the eye ills that be ailing me. But where to research? Where to […]
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Many of you won’t know who Issac Golden is. Indeed, I hadn’t heard of him until he came up at a talk by Peter Bowditch, named as a minor player in the Australian Anti-vaccination movement. I was planning […]
