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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
November 28, 2011
I read the good news on the ABC that parents are being encouraged to vaccinate by only getting the government child bonus payment if they’ve had their vaccinations. The following morning I read The Advertiser over breakfast (having been lulled into a sense of science security by Clare Peddie’s return from holidays) and read this… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
October 23, 2011
This deodorant is like an episode of the Gruen Transfer – it’s like they held a competition to see how much marketing nonsense they could fit onto the packaging to convince you to spend money on it. I unfortunately ended up with a free sample of this heinous gobbledygook. It makes you “CALM after shaving”.… [Read more…]
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… [Read more…]
April 21, 2011
For a spot of entertainment after the last long & heavy post! My only complaint about this sketch is that the hippy is an Australian woman, but I guess ridiculing a hippy Englishman wouldn’t be anywhere near as fun. I won’t take it personally – I don’t have any fairy tattoos. Tim Minchin’s Storm the Animated… [Read more…]
February 5, 2012
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