Yes, that’s right, a Life in the Fast Lane doctor seems to suggest that homeopathy might help a patient… Can it be true?
A Potent but Weak Solution to Oil’s Peak
September 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
Known as unscientific, dangerous, potentially deadly, quackery, and other less than flattering but accurate terms, but it seems that science’s attempts to dilute the false positive claims homeopathy makes only seems to make it stronger.
Evidence-based Homeopathy
April 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
World Homeopathy Awareness Week
April 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I just heard from Science-Based Medicine that April 10th is the first day of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW). In keeping with the spirit of raising awareness, I thought it apt to post this from Hell’s New Stand…
UCEM to Save the NHS
February 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Egerton Y. Davis IV, Head of UCEM’s Demographically Impartial Public & Social Health Improvement Taskforce, made an important announcement today. Davis said that his team have been allocated the task of saving Britain’s National Health Service.
UCEM Prepares For Mass Overdose
January 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
Egerton Y. Davis IV has urged UCEM toxicologists to be on stand-by for potentially one of the worst voluntary mass poisonings the world has seen.
Pseudoscience without sense
September 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Poking fun and self-indulgent chuckling aside, there is a serious aspect to all this senseless pseudoscience.
His life-line is too short…
July 4, 2009 By 9 Comments
This video is going to spread like medical blog wild-fire, having already been posted on Better Health and DC’s Improbable Science. But it’s just too good not to post on ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ too. Ever wondered what the ED would be like if it was run by ‘alternative medicine’ practitioners? Well, wonder no [...]
Quackery Without Scruples
April 4, 2009 By 14 Comments
The film also provides an excellent introduction to the “double-blind randomised controlled trial” – the study design generally recognised in medical science as the “gold standard”, because it removes confounding factors and accounts for the placebo effect.
