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May 27, 2009

You ask, they answer: Neals Yard Remedies

Neals Yard, purveyors of finest homeopathic placebos and quackery, offer to take questions from the Grauniad blog readers. The Bad Science crowd descends, and 24 hours later, no answers are forthcoming.

“I’ve been soaking a £20 note in a bathfull of water for the last few days, is it ok to pay for an order using my new homeopathic money? I now seem to have rather a lot of it.”

April 2, 2009

Jenny Mccarthy Body Count

Counting the illnesses and deaths that could have been prevented by the MMR vaccines that Jenny McCarthy (and others) advise parents not to give their children.

November 22, 2007

What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian

Excellent article on homeopathy by Ben Goldacre — not too ranty in an “all homeopathy is evil” way, rather a “homeopathy should be part of a discussion, if only for the benefits on the placebo effect, but we can’t get the homeopaths to talk”. Hopefully a rational-enough read to convince “believers”.

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