homeopathy

homeopathy — This is a story about homeopathy, or to be a tad more precise, is a story about the deployment of homeopathy that illustrates how the embrace of the idea is not just bizarre but also absurd. Rabid Dogs and Homeopathy The Washington Post reports it as follows … A Canadian […]

Homeopathy: Treating 4 year old with saliva of a rabid dog

This entry was posted in Homeopathy Medicine Skeptic news Skepticism and tagged Anke Zimmermann Health Canada homeopathy Naturopath on April 23, 2018 by Dave

homeopathy — Homeopathy is having a very bad week. Given the observation that there is no credible evidence that verifies that it actually works, then this is not a surprise. This week there have been two Homeopathy items that have popped up in the news cycle. Let’s briefly cover each in turn. The […]

Homeopathy cancer paper withdrawn, lead authors arrested

This entry was posted in consumer Health Homeopathy Skeptic news Skepticism and tagged homeopathy on March 21, 2018 by Dave

homeopathy — Radio Canada Internation reports the reactions being made by many in response to a new course that offers to train you in quackery. They are not alone, other have deployed similar criticism. The course on offer is Homeopathy … Starting this fall, Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, will offer a […]

There is a new college degree in quackery

This entry was posted in Homeopathy Skeptic news Skepticism society and tagged homeopathy quackery on February 10, 2018 by Dave

Homeopathy — The US Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the selling of snake oil. If indeed homeopathy only consisted of a herbal tea or two to help alleviate a cold, then they would not have been too concerned, but unfortunately the landscape has changed and so they have been […]

FDA cracks down on Homeopathy

This entry was posted in Homeopathy Skeptic news Skepticism and tagged FDA homeopathy on December 21, 2017 by Dave

homeopathy — The news is that the UK’s publicly funded National Health Service has blacklisted Homeopathy and also Herbal remedies. Now, you might be tempted to think that they have finally decided to pay attention to the evidence that clearly demonstrates that it simply does not work at all … right? Nope, that […]

UK NHS is blacklisting Homeopathy and Herbal remedies

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking Medicine politics society and tagged blacklist homeopathy NHS on December 2, 2017 by Dave

I’m building up to a point here about the “appeal to an authority” fallacy. What comes next is there to be used to illustrate this, so stick with me for a bit. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is the Nobel prize winning Biologist who won the Nobel prize in 2009 jointly with Thomas A. Steitz […]

Appeal to Authority … is this really a fallacy?

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking and tagged appeal to authority homeopathy Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on May 31, 2017 by Dave