I forgot to put up the first detox press release of this Christmas season. I know I shouldn’t laugh, but I can’t help it. Sense about Science on detox remains good. ” Please see attached some information on Chris James’s brand new 12 Day Mind & Body Cleanse. I’ve also attached his biography so you […]
Continue Reading →..and on Dr Sam Everington, at the Bromley by Bow Centre….
Dr Everington is a doctor at the politicians’ favourite, the Bromley by Bow Centre, as well as being a ‘professional member’ of the College of Medicine. It’s interesting to note the links with his practice, which is noted on their website as covering a very deprived area of London, and the ‘Inside Out Health and […]
Continue Reading →The Crisis in Caring and dangerous inference
I note with gratitude DC’s digging of the College of Medicine arising from Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health. The College website, if looked at superficially and uncritically, may seem like a good thing – caring! sharing information with patients! recognising that targets can interfere with good clinical care! – in fact, all the same kind […]
Continue Reading →Modern quackery
..is rife, and I am so pleased that the Daily Mail have had a hand in upholding a GMC complaint against one doctor offering expensive unproven treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. Shall the GMC now going to reach further and wider and root out some more examples of non evidence based treatments being offered by their […]
Continue Reading →NHS cash for homeopathy
With all the cutbacks to NHS services, it’s worrying to note this job for a homoeopath in Dundee. Thanks to DC for drawing my attention to it – and applying …
Continue Reading →Chiropractic ‘checks’ for children
I am aware of several clinics offering these with the promise of easing colic, even asthma: or preventing problems allegedly caused by birth……so well played, to the journal of Chiropractic and Osteopathy, which concludes, after reviewing the evidence, that a lack of evidence for chiropractic in children has been noted since the 1940s, and almost […]
Continue Reading →and while on the GMC website
a practitioner of ‘live-blood analysis’ is to attend a Fitness to Practice enquiry this week. A quick google reveals quite a few other medical practitioners offering this non evidence based test in the UK; for example “Every person should have this test because it is the ultimate preventative medicine tool available today”; it costs about 150 pounds. […]
Continue Reading →The end of the Prince’s Health charity. Three cheers
You couldn’t make it up. The Princes Foundation for Integrated Health is closing as a result of fraud investigation. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud. Rather amusingly, the trustees are claiming that the aims of the Foundation (integration of what we might term non evidence into versus evidence based treatments) have been […]
Continue Reading →What do Jo Brand, Martin Amis and Lord Rees have in common?
They are all signatories to an open letter (as are FT Science Editor Clive Cookson and myself), condemning the use of English libel law to silence the critical discussion of medical practice and scientific evidence. This is in response to the Simon Singh case, where the British Chiropractic Association has sued him for libel: he has announced that he is to appeal.
Continue Reading →Getting to the point
Unfortunately, last week’s column of acupuncture seems to have upset a few people. On the one hand, those who believe in acupuncture have accused me of being unfair to complementary medicine. At the other end of the scale, alternative medicine sceptics have said I am too interested in what acupuncture has to offer. In order to solve this long-running debate once and for all, I’d like […]
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