Boiron is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of homoeopathic products. They had consolidated sales of 526.09 million euros in 2009 and a consolidated net income after tax of 59.889 million euros, or about 11.4% of its sales.
In spite of its size and high profitability, Boiron does surprisingly little research, namely 4.277 million euros worth [...]

Dutch: natuurlijk
English: natural
Definition: existing in or produced by nature as opposed to artificial (produced by humans), often implying that natural is good and artificial is bad.
Dutch: kunstmatig, artificieel, synthetisch
English: artificial, synthetic
Definition: not occurring in or produced by nature, but produced by humans, often implying that artificial is bad and natural is good.
Dutch: biologisch
English: organic
Definition: produced [...]

BCA is the abbreviation of:
British Chiropractic Association
The BCA says that it is the largest and longest-established association for chiropractors in the UK.
The association does have an official website.
Author Simon Singh said about them that:
The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma [...]

Bryce Wylde is an Ontario businessman who claims to be a homoeopathic doctor. He has a practice in Vaughan, near Toronto and is the presenter of “Wylde on Health”, a television programme promoting alternology on CP24, Toronto’s largest local television station. The programme is sponsored by his company.
According to his website, he has a degree [...]

Madeleine Ennis is a professor of pharmacology at Queen’s University in Belfast. She has caused quite a stir because of her experiments that seemed to show that homoeopathic products may have an effect in spite of what science has found so far.
Her experiments triggered an investigation by the BBC programme Horizon, assisted by the James [...]

Jacques Benveniste, born 2 March 1935, deceased 3 October 2004, was a French immunologist who specialised in the study of immunology, allergy and inflammation. Once considered a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize, his reputation was completely destroyed after he claimed to have found proof of homoeopathy. He published his results in the prestigious scientific [...]

This is a contraction of quackery and academia. It is used to refer to the disgraceful practice of teaching quackery (alternology) such as homoeopathy, acupuncture or chiropractic at universities as if they were legitimate medical professions.
Hungry for money, many universities started courses like this but, probably as a result of lack of evidence and the [...]

Scientology is a church founded in 1952 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard as the successor to his self-help system Dianetics.
The church is highly controversial because of its many shady practices. As such, it is laudable that people are suspicious, but I’d like to see this highly selective scepticism to all religions and magical [...]

Chip Coffey is an American psychic, born on 21 August 1954 in ELmira New York.
He appears on several television programmes, most notably Paranormal State and Psychic Kids.
According to his website, he is:
a clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient psychic, as well as a fully-conscious medium.  He is the great-grandson of famed Native American medicine woman, Minnie Sue [...]

Suzanne Somers was born on 16 October 1946 as Suzanne Marie Mahoney. She is an American actress, author, businessperson and singer.
As an author and businessperson she is highly controversial for her promotion of alternology regarding weightloss, the Wiley protocol, alternative cancer treatments.
She has received support from Oprah Winfrey who has invited her on the Oprah [...]