“In Defense of Homeopathy”

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One of the automatic links generated by WordPress for a previous blogpost led to this, which turned out to be a cut-and-paste job of Jeanette Winterson’s article “In Defense of Homeopathy” from the 13 November 2007 edition of The Guardian.

Illustrating The Point

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Steven Connor, Science Editor of the Independent, spectacularly missed the point with this opinion piece, not to mention confirming many peoples suspicions as to the state of science journalism today.

Unclean, Unclean!

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The H1N1 pandemic seems to have caused over-reaction in some quarters. A colleague on a training course was greeted with all the enthusiasm one would expect for a leper turning up at a society wedding.

Homeopathy Awareness Week

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I gather that last week was “Homeopathy Awareness Week“. Doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact which is a shame because people really need to be informed about homeopathy and be aware of what it actually is.

A Few More Facts About Homeopathy

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I thought I had finished with Lousie Mcleans “Facts About Homeopathy” but I see from this that the number of facts now stands at 55.  Here are the additional five facts with my comments.

“Popularity of Homeopathy”

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The final tranche of Louise Mclean’s “Facts about Homeopathy” discusses the ‘popularity’ of homeopathy. As I have said previously, scientific reality is not determined by voting – and even if it were, homeopathy would be trumped by evidence based medicine, known to homeopaths as ‘allopathy’.

The UCKG Magazine “Faith In Action”

“Faith in Action” is the name of a magazine published by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Having read the 31 May issue, I think that “Selling Salvation by the Pound” might be a more appropriate title.

“Homeopathic Practitioners”

[BPSDB]More of Louise Mclean’s ‘Facts’ about Homeopathy , this time on homeopathic practitioners.

“Scientific Studies”

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More of Louise Mcleans ‘facts’ about homeopathy , this time about scientific studies of homeopathy. This is an area where the homeopaths want to have their cake and eat it. On the one hand they say, as Mclean does in Fact 36, that homeopathy can never be properly tested in double blind randomised trials because each prescription is individualised to the patient and on the other hand they claim that there have been successful clinical trials.

Approved By Health Canada – Not

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Back in February I did a piece coverning the medical claims made by the distributers of xocai chocolate. The conclusion I came to was that it was a load of bull, which obviously did not go down well in certain quarters as the post was trolled by a horde of marketting trolls, one of whom made claims of approval by Health Canada which turned out to be provably false.