Time, presently, is rather short for me; what with the million and one things I’m currently trying to organize since uni has finished for the year. As such, I’ve been hard pressed to write articles, and with the biggest news of the past few weeks being the revelation that Sarah Palin is a creationist (seriously, […]
Archive for the ‘Homeopathy’ Category
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 […]
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.
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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 […]
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
If you’re a new parent, beware. Homeopaths are looking to take advantage of your inexperience.
On an episode of Dr Karl on Triple J recently, and a lady called in (lets call her B) to say homeopathy works for her. She said her children were never vaccinated, and only receives homeopathy treatments, just like all her friend’s children, and that they are all healthy. B thus concluded that homeopathy works, […]
It started after the second “Sunday Night” program dealing with Meryl Dorey and the AVN. I was appalled. How could anyone sit there and say that? How could anyone, in good conscience, sit there and tell a grieving mother whose child had died at the age of four weeks from whooping cough that her daughter’s […]
We laugh a lot at homeopathic remedies and homeopathy in general on this site. Why? Well, it does make claims which would contravene all the known laws of physics if true, while simultaneously ignoring all the implications of its founding principles, such as your 30C solution of Belladonna is also at least 30C of human […]
What is acceptable for our future university students to learn? – It makes sense that all subjects taught at universities or other tertiary education institutions need to have a strong logical base – and all in all must follow the rules of reality (i.e. science). Yet, when I was strolling throughout the TS Expo at the RNA showgrounds this […]
