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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Finishing up Homeopathy Awareness Week: It’s not just homeopathy, it’s quantum homeopathy!

Homeopathy Awareness Week is almost over, alas. I hope I’ve done a good job at making my readers even more “aware” of just how silly the principles of homeopathy are. To finish up, I thought I’d repost a bit of “classic insolence” from three years ago, because it’s dedicated to one of the most amazing […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: What’s better than homeopathic plutonium? Homeopathic antimatter, of course!

With Homeopathy Awareness Week rapidly approaching its end, I wondered just what I could do to bring further “awareness” of just how bogus and full of woo the concepts of homeopathy are. True, discussing homeopathic plutonium as a remedy and how homeopaths did “provings” of it the other day was fun, but surely there’s more. […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Who knew? There are actual medicines in those “homeopathic” remedies

Will wonders never cease? A recent story about how “homeopathic” Zicam managed to slide through a loophole in which the FDA doesn’t require evidence of efficacy or safety for medicines labeled as homeopathic has been percolating through the blogosphere based on a recent warning that the FDA issued. It turns out that the zinc in […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Homeopathic plutonium? Now there’s a hot time in the old town tonight!

In keeping with Homeopathy Awareness Week (which still runs until June 21), I can’t resist commenting on this gem of a story that was sent to me the other day. I mean, we’re talking super duper heaving shopping in the very heart of London. It turns out that the Helios Homeopathy Shop right in Covent […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

The Onion says: Vaccine rejectors put kids at risk

When it comes to antivaccinationists, The Onion, as for most things, nails it. Don’t vaccinate not because science shows no link between vaccines and autism but rather because, you know, Jenny McCarthy has some really convincing anecdotes. When antivaccine loons are the butt of jokes on The Onion saying that they’re endangering children, they should […]