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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.
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Too Much Medicine?

Michael Heap -
  Back in 1990 I wrote a paper for this magazine entitled Surely there is something in it: The social psychology of healing in which...
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More on the Here & Now

Michael Heap -
APART FROM A MORE RECENT CONTRACT with a local mental health service, the last post I held as a psychologist in the NHS was...
Archive

Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t

Mark Williams -
From the archives in 2011, Mark Williams looks at media scaremongering around technology being to blame for social ills
Health

Autism, MMR and the consequences of misguided science.

Wendy M. Grossman -
The news this week that The Lancet has retracted Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper claiming to have found a link between autism and the MMR...
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Why We Need Science

Phil -
Harriet Hall examines the reliability and explanatory power of anecdotal reports, and biases in human perception in her article Why We Need Science: “I saw it with my own eyes” Is Not Enough
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eHealth: Skeptic at Large

Wendy M. Grossman -
Wendy Grossman examines how technology and treatment combine in the modern healthcare system.
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