Simon Wessely and ME/CFS: A blast from the past
Following the joint award to Simon WesselyW of the first John MaddoxW Award for Standing up for Science, by Sense About Science, there has been a brief flame-up on Twitter of the ages-long campaign...
View ArticleA side note on racism
A side note to the Errol Denton business, in the pious hope that he’s finally got some advice he’ll heed and dropped his fatuous crusade. While his clueless spamming on a page carrying the blood libel...
View ArticleHomeopathy: Why It Works
William “Silly Billy” Alderson is a homeopath. In order to be a homeopath, obviously a level of reality denial is required. William, operator of the hilariously mistitled “Homeopathy: Medicine for the...
View ArticleTwitter spammers are skeptics. Who knew?
Watching a keyword rather than a hashtag can bring up some interesting results. The keyword homeopathy for example brings up a steady trickle – several per day – of identical tweets: Just trying arnica...
View ArticleSkeptics – profits before patients?
“Skeptics – profits before patients?” is the latest incoherent rambling wibble from Chris Woo – sorry, Woollams, the self-styled “UK’s number 1 cancer researcher”, founder and driving force behind the...
View ArticleMilitant Skepticism and Homeopathy: what do they have to say?
Steve Scrutton (@SteveScrutton) is a homeopath. He is one of the more egregious homeopaths: he openly defies ASA adjudications requiring his to remove the false and misleading claims from his website,...
View ArticleAntimicrobial resistance
The House of Commons Science And Technology Committee is considering antimicrobial resistance, an otherwise dull but worthy activity enlivened by some pure comedy gold. And then. Reading an amusing dig...
View ArticleThe Homeopathy Rabid Reactionary Farce
Twitter recently changed its blocking behaviour, so that when someone has blocked you, you cannot see their tweets. It’s not totally reliable, since they still show up in hashtag searches when there...
View ArticleWhat Skeptics Should Know about Homeopathy: Undeniable Evidence for...
Homeopathy’s most prolific shill, Dana “Mr Uncredible” Ullman, seems to think that being called “the Leading Proselytizer of Homeopathy” is a good thing. As we already know, his principal tactic in...
View ArticleAnother day, another quack
@StephenBlendell is a newcomer to the Twitter arguments over homeopathy. His Twitter bio is hilariously oxymoronic, and his arguments are oxymoronic without the oxy. A rational scientific medicine...
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