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Dying to believe: how Gerson therapy claims jeopardise cancer patients

Michael Marshall -
Michael Marshall reports from a "cancer cure" seminar where patients were explicitly told to give up their chemotherapy in favour of disproven treatments.
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Diluting Homeopathy, even further: the campaign to end NHS homeopathy

Michael Marshall -
The NHS has been funding homeopathy for years, but a campaign by the Good Thinking Society has been slowly pushing that back
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Homeopathy & Witchcraft

Deborah Hyde -
“Homeopathy is witchcraft” said Dr Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman of the BMA’s junior doctors committee at their annual conference in May. It seems the...
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A Quorum of Quacks

Deborah Hyde -
For those of you who have never been festooned with so may needles that you looked like a archery target in fairyland, or else...
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The Changing Face of Anti-Vax

Deborah Hyde -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a very well-travelled eighteenth century aristocrat whose husband was appointed ambassador to Istanbul. Fortunately for us, she was also...
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From the archives: Homeopathy and the 10:23 campaign

Mark Williams -
From the archives in 2012, Mark Williams corresponds with professional homeopathy organisations in the wake of the 10:23 campaign's mass 'overdose' stunt
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The First Quackbusters? The early battles between quacks and skeptics

Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst -
From the archives, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst reflect on the early history of the continuing battle between quacks and sceptics
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Therapeutic Touch: another health scam from America

Mahlon W Wagner -
From the archives, Mahlon W Wagner calls on the nursing profession to distance itself from New Age mysticism and anti-scientific philosophies
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