Homeopathy Rewritten

| September 2nd, 2010

Its, safe, natural and side effect free. That's because it is just water. Homeopathy is based on the "law of similars" which is "like cures like". So if you're sick, you take what would cause those symptoms and it cures it? Not quite; you have to dilute it. You take a glass of water and [...]

Why do people demonize what has given them so much?

| May 14th, 2008

Ben Stein said in a resent interview that is was scientists sending people to the gas chamber in the holocaust[1] and in his movie Expelled he says science (specifically the Theory of Evolution) leads to atheism and genocide. Anti vaccinations nuts claim the vaccines lead to Autism despite an overwhelming amount of evidence that says [...]

PhD student died of liver failure cause of alternative medicine

| March 27th, 2008

Hidden danger of herbal remedies We told last night how PhD student Ling Wang died from liver failure after she used a herbal remedy to tackle a skin rash and stomach upset. An inquest heard the 25-year-old, of Spital Tongues, Newcastle, fell into a coma after taking an unknown Chinese medicine. Pathologists said Jin Bu [...]

Two men get prostate cancer after taking a supplement bought of the internet

| March 25th, 2008

Death by supplements In 1996, my colleagues and I published a study on selenium in prostate cancer prevention. In brief, we found an unprecedented 60% reduction of prostate cancer in men who received dietary supplements of selenium. Our study was imperfect and while it produced an interesting hypothesis - selenium reduces prostate cancer incidence - [...]

Whats the harm

| February 13th, 2008

I found this at Bad Astronomy.com and it bears repeating. When it comes CAM (complementary and alternative medicine), astrology or psychics people some times say "whats the harm? Even if its not real/ doesn't do anything, whats the harm? It makes people feel better" well there is, there is grate harm in them. Here are [...]

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