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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘medicine’
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.
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
Physical exercise is proven to have great effects for the body and mind; everybody should have at least some form of physical exercise each day, and in doing so contribute a great amount of time and thought into the activities workings. Yet there is a point where this physical education can lead into spiritual woo; […]
In brief: the South Australian Medical Board has officially condemned ‘bogus practitioners’ for taking advantage of vulnerable people, after a baby was crushed to death by a massage table at the clinic of an alternative therapist, referred to as an unregistered massage therapist, who claimed the ability to shrink cancerous tumors with massage therapy.
The article quotes […]
It is often claimed by anti-vaccinationists that many, if not all, vaccines contain mercury, and this is a primary reason why vaccines are bad for you and your children. But is this actually true?
Do vaccines really contain mercury? How much mercury? Which vaccines? How does this potential source of mercury exposure compare to other sources of […]
[The following is x-posted from my blog, Homologous Legs]
Spurred by recent activity on a post on the Young Australian Skeptics site about the ingredients in homeopathy, I decided I would search my house for any homeopathic products my parents were sneakily keeping hidden from me. Not long after searching, I found this:
It’s a cream manufactured by a […]
The ‘City of Churches’ is perhaps not the best place for an Atheist to live, a place where one quickly becomes resigned to seeing at least one church every few streets on the way to work or school. However, the topic of this post is not the sheer volume of steepled worship-dens for which my […]
Today, after much prompting from those around me, I finally went to the doctor about some headaches and blurred vision I’d been having. The diagnosis was pretty much what I’d expected — tension headaches caused some combination of factors related to new glasses and irregular sleep patterns (only one of which I can actually do anything about). […]
