Posts Tagged ‘Homeopathy’

I’m attending Perth Skeptics in the Park, with about a dozen people sitting around in the shade of a gorgeous Sunday, and I’m telling people about the 10:23 Campaign interview I just did for the Skeptic Zone podcast. If you haven’t checked it out, it features Marsh of the Merseyside Skeptics.
Since I’m keen on Perth Skeptics […]

Mumbai Mirror makes a mess of medicine…

By Richard Hughes

29
Nov. 09

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.

Smug, deceptive, and utterly reprehensible.

By Richard Hughes

25
Aug. 09

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 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.

This article was posted recently by Meryl Dorey on her Australian Vaccination Network blog. Meryl’s post linked to the full-​​​​length version of the article, here.
Autism? Profits for Big Pharma? Oh boy, it turns out that there’s a whole lot more than just autism at stake here.
Here it is. The truth revealed! Remember, Meryl takes this seriously […]

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 […]

I need 30C Nux Vomica, STAT!

By Richard Hughes

11
Jul. 09

Via Joel Birch on Twitter (by way of @SkepticsGuide) comes this hilarious skit from That Mitchell and Webb Look. Check it out, but have a change of underwear nearby because you’re going to piss yourself laughing: