Cross-posted from Divisible By Pi. Poor Rachel Roberts has had rather a tough time of it. Passionate about science from a young age, she went to university and managed to land a position in a neuroscience PhD program — rather on track for a promising career in research, one might assume. But then she threw it all away. […]
Archive for the ‘Homeopathy’ Category
Cross Posted at Friend of Reason I was in a local pharmacy the other day when, as I normally do I sought out the “natural” alternatives that were made available. I guess I do this in the hope that once, just once the pharmacy won’t be selling utter nonsense to an unsuspecting and trusting public. That […]
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, […]
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.
Write your complaint to 9am at Channel 10 here. Write your complaint to the Victorian Health Services Commissioner here. 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 […]
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
If you’re a new parent, beware. Homeopaths are looking to take advantage of your inexperience.
