For decades, European health systems have maintained an uneasy coexistence between evidence-based medicine and a range of so-called alternative medicines (SCAMs). Among the most prominent has been ...

Violence and abuse are no longer confined to the margins of society; they have permeated workplaces, public services, streets, homes, schools, online forums, places of worship, and even political ...

Dame Shirley Porter died on May 2. She passed away in Herzliya, Israel, where she had spent much of her time since the early 2000s. Dame Shirley had been the former leader of Westminster City Council ...

Despite overwhelming evidence proving that homeopathics are pure placebos, a faction of German healthcare professionals – predominantly people who profit from homeopathy - continues to argue against ...

Recent excesses of antisemitism in the UK and elsewhere prompt me to occasionally deviate from the core subject of this blog. I hope you share my concerns and understand my decision. Nigel Farage had ...

Zac k Polanski the current Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, previously worked as a professional “cognitive hypnotherapist”. “Hypnosis reduces pain intensity and anxiety ratings in ...

Recent statements concerning US pharmaceutical pricing have drawn renewed attention to an entirely new horizon in mathematics. The method, associated with remarks by Donald Trump and repeated by ...

Two years ago, in a guest post on this blog, I described the long and winding history of homeopathy in Switzerland — a story marked by political expectations, institutional entanglements, and repeated ...

The defence of anthroposophical medicine - or of any other unproven modality - as articulated, for example, by figures like Weleda CEO Tina Müller, presents a vision of patient-centred care and ...

When a top journal like PNAS (Procedings of the Nationsl Academy of Science) publishes an article entitled "What’s the science behind acupuncture?", I must take notice. Here is my take on the (sadly d ...