Acupuncture
Dragons’ Den has a quackery problem that goes far beyond ear seeds
While recent attention has understandably been on Dragons' Den's promotion of ME/cfs quackery, the BBC show's flirtation with pseudoscience runs much deeper
Dragons’ Den’s uncritical promotion of ear seeds is an insult to ME/cfs patients like me
The Dragons' Den Acu Seeds debacle shows how understandably desperate ME/cfs are - and how vulnerable to misinformation from authoritative sources
Auriculotherapy: why poking needles into your earlobe is, essentially, pointless
Auriculotherapy - ear acupuncture - is a popular alternative therapy, even though proponents can't even agree which part of the ear does what
The World Health Organisation is misguided in its handling of ‘traditional’ medicine
The WHO is right to say we should respect indigenous, 'traditional' medical knowledge - but proper respect means applying scrutiny and rigour
Acupuncture remains one of the most enduring pseudo-therapies – even though it does not work
Given there's no reliable evidence acupuncture works, and it has been associated with significant harm, its risks outweigh its benefits.
The erroneous assumptions of so-called alternative medicine: Root causes
So-called alternative medicine practitioners are always keen to tell their patients they treat the root cause of disease - in reality, nothing could be further from the truth
When it comes to research, so-called alternative medicine is hostile to progress
Researchers who demonstrate alt-med to be ineffective are routinely, personally attacked - because practitioners are looking for vindication, not truth
As a skeptic and a dentist, I jumped at the chance to take a dental acupuncturist course
If we want to appreciate what makes pseudoscience practitioners tick, we need to know how they’re taught to think - which is why I took an acupuncture course.
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