Reading Time: 2 minutes This is great news and long overdue. From the Humanists UK: In reaction to the news that the board of NHS England has voted to defund homeopathy prescriptions, and recommended that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt blacklist homeopathy from being provided on the NHS at all, Humanists UK Director of Public Affairs and Policy Richy Thompson said: […]
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Quote of the Day: Joe on Homeopathy
Reading Time: < 1 minute I love this, in reply to the news that the NHS is banning homeopathy: The only problem now is how to dispose of the remaining stock of homeopathic remedies. You can’t just pour them down the drain, because they’ll become even stronger when they reach the ocean. Thanks, Joe. Nice one!
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NHS Bans Homeopathy for Lack of Evidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is great news, being reported all over the shop just now. People like Michael Marshall and the Good Thinking Society have been campaigning for this long and hard, and it has paid off. In all honesty, homeopathy has reduced on the NHS over the years and only accounts for a tiny percentage of outgoings. But […]
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Please complete this short survey against homeopathy funding in UK
Reading Time: < 1 minute Please help to put a stop to the NHS/state funding of homeopathy. The Good Thinking Society has launched a long-running campaign to work out the funding across different NHS groups and organisations in the UK, and it turns out that we fund homeopathy to the tune of about £5 million. Pressure from the society has […]
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Debating Homeopathy, and Water Not Remembering Urine and Faeces and Disease
Reading Time: < 1 minute There appears to be a bit of a debate gearing up over at this thread on homeopathy and its effectiveness. Check it out and get involved, in the name of evidence-based rationality. All I can say is that pro-homeopathic people tend to have rather interesting special pleading for the ability of water. Apparently you can […]
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Homeopathy Now Consigned to Dustbin of Ideas. Officially.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, if officially means by anyone with a brain who can use, analyse and reflect on empirical data. An Australian meta-study has looked at 1800 studies, and has concluded that the quackery that is homeopathy is bullsh*t. No surprise. But it’s good to have such robust data to defend even the most obvious of claims. […]
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Homeopathy could be blacklisted in the UK
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on a blacklist of treatments GPs in England are banned from prescribing, the BBC has learned.
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Homeopaths Totally Baffled By Cordial
Reading Time: < 1 minute A spokesperson for Australian Homeopathic Association has released a statement today conceding that they are “baffled” by the concept of cordial.
Homeopathy, an alternative medicine practice dating back to the 18th century, operates under the principle that water holds “memory” and that a substance will increase in efficacy as it is diluted in solution.
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Genius! The humour of skepticism
Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to see local fellow skeptic at Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub the other night. Crispian Jago has a great blog called Reason Stick and is fairly famous for some of the images that he has created, some of which I have tweeted and blogged. Here are a few below:
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Religion is to Science as Homeopathy is to Medicine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Look at the different healing miracles Jesus does in the gospels. Are they any more effective than debunked alternative medicines?