A tribute to Prince Charles, champion of anti-science, on his 65th birthday
Today, Prince Charles celebrates his 65th birthday. He is one of the world’s most tenacious, outspoken and influential proponent of alternative medicine and attacker of science - sufficient reason, I...
View ArticleA treasure trove of fallacies, falsehoods and deceptions
Several sceptics including myself have previously commented on this GP’s bizarre promotion of bogus therapies, his use of disproven treatments, and his advocacy for quackery. An interview with Dr...
View ArticleHow Prince Charles disrespects his constitutional role
Yesterday, BBC NEWS published the following interesting text about a BBC4 broadcast entitled ‘THE ROYAL ACTIVIST’ aired on the same day: Prince Charles has been a well-known supporter of complementary...
View ArticleBeware of the ‘new-born holists’
There are few concepts in medicine which are more often abused than that of ‘holistic medicine’. Professor Baum and many other well-reasoned observers have pointed out that true “holism in medicine is...
View ArticleSeven things to remember when you are tempted to try homeopathy
THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO HRH, THE PRINCE OF WALES WHO CELEBRATES HIS 66TH BIRTHDAY TODAY AND HAS SUPPORTED HOMEOPATHY ALL HIS LIFE Like Charles, many people are fond of homeopathy; it is particularly...
View Article10 things that would improve alternative medicine in 2015
I know, it’s not really original to come up with the 10000th article on “10 things…” – but you will have to forgive me, I read so many of these articles over the holiday period that I can’t help but...
View ArticleA Scientist in Wonderland: a thoughtful comment on my new book
Guest post by Louise Lubetkin (A SCIENTIST IN WONDERLAND: A MEMOIRE OF SEARCHING FOR TRUTH AND FINDING TROUBLE has now been published. An apt opportunity perhaps to post a letter and comment from the...
View ArticleWonderland (5): a ‘moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of...
Chapter 5 of my memoir is entitled ‘OFF WITH HIS HEAD’. It describes the role that Prince Charles played in promoting what he now likes to call ‘integrated medicine’. The weird thing is that he was...
View ArticleWonderland (6): attempts to sabotage my scientific, moral and ethical standards
My memoir ‘A SCIENTIST IN WONDERLAND’ continues to get rather splendid reviews. On 23 March, it will be published also in a German edition. Probably a good time to post another short excerpt from it....
View ArticleOnce again: the regulation of nonsense will generate nonsense – the case of...
The Telegraph today reports that, despite relentless lobbying from the Prince of Wales, UK herbalists will not, after all, be regulated by statute. Here are the most important statements from this...
View ArticleThe ‘spider memo’ which the press forgot
Prince Charles’ meddling beyond his constitutional role is yet again in the press today. I was sent the 2nd batch of ‘spider memos’ yesterday, studied them and commented as follows: The letters...
View ArticlePrince Charles and the basic laws of stupidity
All this recent attention to Charles’ amazing letters and unconstitutional meddling made me think quite a lot about STUPIDITY. Thus I came across the writings of Carlo Maria Cipolla who seemed to have...
View ArticleA ‘ferociously frank’ book
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed: I recently published a ‘memoir‘. Of all the books I have written, this one was by far the hardest. It covers ground that I felt quite uncomfortable with....
View Article‘What happened to your research unit at Exeter?’
One of the questions that I hear regularly is: ‘What happened to your research unit at Exeter?’ Therefore it might be a good idea to put the full, shameful story on this blog. After the complaint by...
View ArticleINTEGRATED MEDICINE: a disservice to patients?
We used to call it ‘alternative medicine’ (on this blog, I still do so, because I believe it is a term as good or bad as any other and it is the one that is easily recognised); later some opted for...
View ArticleTHE JOHN MADDOX PRIZE 2015: first reactions
Yes, I got an award – and a very prestigious one at that! Thanks to everyone who supported me in often difficult times and made this possible. Here are some details from the website of Nature: Edzard...
View ArticleShould homeopathy be blacklisted in general practice? Dr Michael Dixon’s...
We could have expected it, couldn’t we? With so much homeopathy in the press lately, Dr Dixon (we have seen him on this blog before, for instance here, here and here) had to comment. His article in...
View ArticleVeterinary homeopathy? No thanks…(sorry Charles)!
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, gave a lecture on the subject of veterinary homeopathy in the mid-1810s. Ever since, homeopathy has been used for treating animals. Von Boennighausen, a...
View ArticlePRINCE CHARLES: the ‘immense value’ of alternative diagnostic methods
Non-validated diagnostic methods, like those in abundant use in alternative medicine, run an unacceptably high risk of producing false positive or false negative diagnoses. The former would be a...
View ArticleCharles, our considerate prince*
It has been reported in most newspapers that Prince Charles has proposed a solution to the problem of antibiotic over-use in animals and humans. He told an international gathering of scientists and...
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