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I was a bit curious about this ‘Energy Medicine’ that the Friends of Science in Medicine said was being taught at Australian universities. So I tried the same trick as last time with homeopathy – Googled “energy medicine” site:.edu.au. Since then I’ve had this hanging around, but it’s too good not to post. So RMIT […]
February 5, 2012
Wow! Friends of Science in Medicine certainly got lots of people Googling for more information. FSM really should get their own website explaining their principles, so everyone who’s looking for information isn’t getting it from second-hand sources, such as the news, blogs, and their opponents. Plus then the public could go there to vent their […]
January 29, 2012
In response to the kerfuffle over the Friends of Science in Medicine, The Conversation responded with an article from the alternative therapists’ point of view: “Alternative medicine can be scientific, say besieged academics“. The article’s uncritical he-said-she-said reporting – normal practice for ‘unbiased’ journalism and a site which is trying to provoke a ‘conversation’ – is […]
January 24, 2012
I previously posted examples of the horrific proliferation of Australian universities teaching accredited and Federally funded science degrees in mumbo-jumbo and hogwash. Around Christmas there was a letter to the editor in The Advertiser from Rob Morrison saying that a group calling themselves “Friends of Science in Medicine” were starting up to combat exactly this sort […]
November 10, 2011
I was reading about problems with universities endorsing ‘science’ degrees in homeopathy and other complementary medicine “gobbledygook“. I briefly thought that this was in the UK and hopefully it wasn’t happening here in Australia. Then the niggling voice of cynicism said I was probably being far too optimistic. So I Googled “homeopathy site:.edu.au” hoping that I wouldn’t […]
October 15, 2011
An article in this morning’s paper has raised the issue of alternative therapies being covered by private health insurance, such as iridology, homeopathy etc. Alternative therapies are those that have either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work. If anyone needs reminding that alternative therapies that have been demonstrated to work […]
February 12, 2012
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