I heard this on the TV while making a cup of tea. Press play, close your eyes and imagine Avon’s brave new world of alpha-grade beauty products.

“When one considers that Wagner’s father died of typhoid just six months after the future composer’s birth, it is no exaggeration to say that it is likely that Richard Wagner’s contribution to music would not have occurred without the homeopathic treatment he received.” Dana Ullman – 19th century geniuses who loved homeopathy This is an [...]

The Infinite Monkey Cage tackled astrology this week, amongst other things. Ben Miller visited to Jonathan Cainer, astrologer extraordinaire, to see how astrology works. This seems to have come as a shock to Prof. Brian Cox who doesn’t think that it works. Ben Miller, who was ABD in Physics, argued it did work. For Ben [...]

I don’t know about you but I’ve been absolutely riveted by the recent release of records from a break-in at the White Star line. No really, it’s not just a stream of bilge from people who may not be experts but reckon something. Frankly I can’t get enough of hearing about the same claim that [...]

I sent an email to the British Chiropractic Association’s enquiries email account recently. Dear BCA, I read with interest that the use of manipulation is documented ‘as far back as 2700-1500 BC in China and Greece.‘ Could you point me to the documentation for Greece? I’m researching the use of ancient history in justifications for [...]

I’m entirely serious when I say her posts are of historic importance. It’s the only place I know of where the extra-terrestrial hunting pseudoarchaeologists have been given carte blanche on a site of archaeological importance.

I’m busy till the end of the month, so I won’t be blogging about these results yet. The irony is that the Aztec calendar was far, far more accurate than the classical Greek calendar which would only be accurate to plus or minus a month or two.

‘Christians’ showing the love. Photo (cc) Jordan Thevenow-Harrison Ed Darrell has set a tough problem. How do you solve the Texan education crisis? If you haven’t been following this, the Texas Education Authority has forced an employee to resign because she sent round details of a talk debunking Intelligent Design. The TEA has stated it’s [...]

Oscillococcinum is a remarkable substance. It’s a homeopathic remedy which fights the Oscillococcus bacterium. Now some sceptics will balk at that and ask how a homeopathic medicine can fight anything. That’s not a problem in this case as Oscillococcus probably doesn’t exist. That’s a distraction. What’s interesting is Oscillococcinum itself. Oscillococcinum is made from the [...]

It’s on Bad Science. On the plus side the SoH have got in contact and asked about the claimed cancer curing chemical conman. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. In the meantime there’s LOLHomeopathicRemedies and the world’s unluckiest LOLcat.