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Alternative Medicine

Don’t believe what you think!

Edzard Ernst -
What follows is a slightly modified and abbreviated version of the introduction to Professor Edzard Ernst's recently published book, Don't Believe What You Think. Why...
Alternative Medicine

NHS Lincolnshire Reiki-d over the coals for ‘Spiritual Healer’ job ad

Brian Eggo -
NHS Lincoln's ad for a Spiritual Healer rightly deserved criticism, but do these alternative health charities expose a more worrying gap in our care for cancer patients?
Skepticism

Coronavirus, conspiracy, challenges and compassion

Michael Marshall -
Our new editor Michael Marshall talks about the challenge of countering coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theory, and why compassion is such an important aspect of skepticism.
Alternative Medicine

Dying to believe: how Gerson therapy claims jeopardise cancer patients

Michael Marshall -
Michael Marshall reports from a "cancer cure" seminar where patients were explicitly told to give up their chemotherapy in favour of disproven treatments.
Alternative Medicine

Diluting Homeopathy, even further: the campaign to end NHS homeopathy

Michael Marshall -
The NHS has been funding homeopathy for years, but a campaign by the Good Thinking Society has been slowly pushing that back
Alternative Medicine

Homeopathy & Witchcraft

Deborah Hyde -
“Homeopathy is witchcraft” said Dr Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman of the BMA’s junior doctors committee at their annual conference in May. It seems the...
Alternative Medicine

A Quorum of Quacks

Deborah Hyde -
For those of you who have never been festooned with so may needles that you looked like a archery target in fairyland, or else...
Alternative Medicine

The Changing Face of Anti-Vax

Deborah Hyde -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a very well-travelled eighteenth century aristocrat whose husband was appointed ambassador to Istanbul. Fortunately for us, she was also...
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