Homeopathy has taken a bit of a bashing recently with the Parliamentary Evidence Check recommending that homeopathy no longer be funded by the NHS as there’s no evidence that it actually works.

Of course, many people like and use homeopathy for other non-evidence-based reasons and they think it should be made available on the NHS because they like it – never mind whether it works or not.

Unsurprisingly, a proponent and user of homeopathy is no less an intellect than ex-GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips who wrote a piece for The Mirror:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/27/nature-s-tonic-115875-22072960/

It contains a few gems! (more…)

Remember the headlines last week about the man who had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative coma for 23 years only for tests to be done showing that he’s actually conscious but paralysed? (more…)

Back in 2006 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the government agency for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe, was slated by scientists, skeptics and other rationalists after they changed guidelines regarding the over-the-counter sale of homeopathic products. (more…)