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Cancer Quack Colleen Huber Sues Britt Hermes for Libel

Cancer quackery is about as low as you can go. Telling people you can cure cancer with baking powder and vitamin C is irresponsible, unethical and lethal. But these are staple claims of the Naturopathic health care trade. In the UK, naturopathy is not a prominent mode of alternative medicine, but in the United States, students can spend tens of thousands of dollars being told they are getting meaningful medical qualifications in naturopathic medicine that are somehow equivalent to a real medical training. Britt Hermes has been exposing this exploitative trade for a number of years now. She knows about [read more...]

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Animal Acupuncture is Animal Cruelty

This morning, the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, tweeted that it was ‘nurturing their precious penguins’ by giving them a range of quack treatments including ‘laser therapy, acupuncture and magnetic pulses’. The linked article [read more...]

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Dame Shirley Porter Funded Prince Charles’ Political Report on NHS Alternative Medicine

by Andy Lewis in Bad Charity 26

After writing about how Prince Charles’ charity, the Foundation for Integrated Health, is now under police investigation for possible fraud, it has become clear how I have missed one of the most shocking aspects of the Smallwood Report. The report has proved to be very controversial because it was commissioned [read more...]

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The British Chiropractic Association Humiliated.

by Andy Lewis in chiropractic 17

People who work in public healthcare, or are involved with the promotion of health practitioners or techniques, do not have an absolute right to a reputation. It is most important that the claims, behaviours and results achieved are subject to the highest levels of public scrutiny. It is only in [read more...]