Creating your own pseudoscience Part 2
Creating your own pseudoscience Part 2 The Skeptic’s Dictionary
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Creating your own pseudoscience Part 1 The Skeptic’s Dictionary
View ArticleWeasel words
Weasel words “Weasel words give the impression of taking a firm position while avoiding commitment to any specific claim. Advertisements tell us that certain products help or may help (prevent, stop...
View ArticlePseudoscience and AntiScience in Alternative Medicine
Pseudoscience and AntiScience in Alternative MedicineArticle by Jack Raso and Samuel Homola, American Council on Science and Health (March 2001)
View ArticleCancer Quackery Examined
Cancer Quackery Examined Professor Ray Lowenthal's paper examines 'alternative and complementary' treatments for cancer, finding they leave a great deal to be desired. The Skeptic (Autumn 2001)...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of CAM
The rise and rise of CAM"The new vogue for CAM, particularly within the medical profession, seems particularly strange when we consider that scientific medicine progressed and developed by questioning,...
View ArticlePut alternative medicine back in its box
Put alternative medicine back in its box"Just as reason cannot be reconciled with irrationality, so orthodox medicine cannot be integrated with alternative medicine." Dr Michael Fitzpatrick,...
View ArticleWhy integrative medicine?
Why integrative medicine? A critical essay by Thomas Wheeler, Evidence-based Integrative Medicine (2003) [pdf]
View ArticleThe catwalk of CAM — fad and fashion in complementary medicine
The catwalk of CAM — fad and fashion in complementary medicineArticle by Peter Canter, PhD, Associate Editor, Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies [FACT] (June 2003)
View ArticleFreedom of Informed Choice
Freedom of Informed ChoiceAre consumers truly free to make informed choices about complementary and alternative medicine? Article by Paul Lee, Skeptic Report (September 2003)
View ArticleBeing wholistic
Being wholisticArticle by Jeffrey K. Aronson, MA, DPhil, MBCHB, FRCP, (Reader in Clinical Pharmacology), Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies [FACT] (December 2003)
View ArticleGurus and gibberish
Gurus and gibberishFrancis Wheen on the snake-oils and quacks of our age. New Humanist (31st January 2004)
View ArticleAlternative medicine is too silly to regulate
Alternative medicine is too silly to regulateOpinion from Alice Miles. Times Online (3rd March 2004)
View ArticleJunk medicine: Testing 'alternative therapies'
Junk medicine: Testing 'alternative therapies'Article by Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent, Times Online (6th March 2004)
View ArticleScience and Pseudoscience: The differences
Science and Pseudoscience: The differencesA short essay by James Randi. (17th March 2004)
View ArticleThe real health scare
The real health scare"The fact that devotees of alternative therapies have a tendency to die rather more quickly than those who accept conventional treatment goes largely unspoken." Opinion in The...
View ArticleBridging the Chasm between Two Cultures
Bridging the Chasm between Two CulturesA former leader in the New Age culture — author of nine titles on auras, chakras, "energy", and so on — chronicles her difficult and painful transition to...
View ArticleHopi candles for the worried well
Hopi candles for the worried wellBy Theodore Dalrymple (Article originally published in the New Statesman, 18th October 2004)
View ArticleAlternative medicine: a triumph of romance over reason
Alternative medicine: a triumph of romance over reasonDr Brian M. Hughes, Dept. of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway (Irish Medical News 15th November 2004)
View Article'Everybody has won but no-one must have prizes'
'Everybody has won but no-one must have prizes'Article by Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPEd., Clinical Medicine (July/August 2005) [free full text pdf]
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