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I don’t really have much to add. Seriously, if you think that anything of what she said makes any sort of sense, you need to read some science textbooks. Hat-tip to Godless Business and, begrudgingly, Pharyngula (Dammit, PZ, why do you have to link to everything good before everyone else? You make the rest of us feel like such copycats.) Spurred by recent activity on a post on the Young Australian Skeptics site about the ingredients in homeopathy, I decided I would search my house for any homeopathic products my parents were sneakily keeping hidden from me. Not long after searching, I found this:
It’s a cream manufactured by a company called ‘Brauer Natural Medicines’, and claims to be a topical cream for the “temporary relief of strains, sprains, bruising and sore, aching muscles”, with a homeopathic active ingredient: 1X Arnica montana. This [...] » Continue reading ““Homeopathic” Arnica Cream?” This is not usually a blog that focuses on alternative medicine and the pseudoscience surrounding quack medical treatments, but I thought I’d make an exception just this one time. If you’re an active skeptic on the Internet, you’ll probably already know about this, but for those who aren’t, I’ll explain what this is about. On the 7th of January, a British radio presenter named Jeni Barnett went off on a massive rant about vaccines on her LBC radio show, which was listened to by quite a substantial number of people. [...] » Continue reading “Livetweeting Jeni Barnett” Have you ever visited this website? ‘Monkeybiz’ is a non-profit organisation that helps disadvantaged people in South Africa by selling artwork created from small beads that are made by the women themselves that need the financial aid. It’s a good organisation: the women don’t have to leave home, they can do traditional artwork and get paid for it, and there’s no big corporate boss leaning over them and telling them to work faster. Basically, if you want some artwork made by these women, you send in your [...] » Continue reading “Beads, AIDS and Homeopathy” |
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