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“First do no harm” is a laudable principle when it is applied by people with a functioning brain. It is a highly dangerous fallacy when it is not.
When I have an acute appendicitis, I want my doctor to harm me. He/she is to take out her/his scalpel, cut me open and rip the darn [...]

Homoeopaths and other alternologists often dismiss randomized controlled trials outright and frown upon evidence. That is quite understandable, since much of alternology and certainly homoeopathy has been shown to be just as useful as sugar pills. After all, counterfeiters don’t like objective tests of the products of their labour either.
Yet, alternologists usually love outcome studies. [...]

This month is homoeopathic awareness month. A number of articles about homoeopathy have been published, but there is also such a thing as homoeopathic humour. In an episode of “That Mitchell and Webb Look” we get to see a homoeopathic emergency room.

Homoeopathy is a system of healing that was created by Samuel Hahnemann, an eighteenth [...]

April is homoeopathy awareness month. For the occasion, a test of homoeopathy by the BBC’s Horizon has been made available on YouTube. The test failed. Utterly. However, the video contains information that is not widely known. A must-see.

Twitter is a fast and easy way to unleash short blurbs of one’s wisdom on fans, but that does not make the contents true, and this may come back to haunt the author. I look at what one celebrity has to say about science.

Homoeopathy, long thought to be a harmless indulgence for middle class people of the hippy era is increasingly under fire, because it is becoming more and more apparent that it is costing lives.

Homoeopathy is in the news again. Most of us know of homoeopathy, often touted to be a safe and holistic way to treat illnesses. But what is homoeopathy, really?

Homoeopathy is on the rise. People perceive it as a safe and natural alternative to the evils of modern medicine and pharmacology. What they usually ignore, is that homoeopathy is no better than a placebo, and Gloria Sam has paid the ultimate price.

Someone recently asked a question about a homeopathic product: what does 200X mean?