Beware of the ‘new-born holists’
There are few concepts in medicine which are more often abused than that of ‘holistic medicine’. Professor Baum and many other well-reasoned observers have pointed out that true “holism in medicine is...
View ArticleIt’s beginning to look a lot like DETOX…everywhere I go
Well, not everywhere actually; if you go on Medline, for instance, and search for ‘detox’, you hardly find anything at all on detox as used in alternative medicine. This is because there is no science...
View Article10 things that would improve alternative medicine in 2015
I know, it’s not really original to come up with the 10000th article on “10 things…” – but you will have to forgive me, I read so many of these articles over the holiday period that I can’t help but...
View ArticleALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: the ‘inside story’
Hard to believe but, in the last 35 years, I have written or edited a total of 49 books; about half of them on alternative medicine and the rest on various subjects related to clinical medicine and...
View ArticleWonderland (5): a ‘moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of...
Chapter 5 of my memoir is entitled ‘OFF WITH HIS HEAD’. It describes the role that Prince Charles played in promoting what he now likes to call ‘integrated medicine’. The weird thing is that he was...
View ArticleWonderland (6): attempts to sabotage my scientific, moral and ethical standards
My memoir ‘A SCIENTIST IN WONDERLAND’ continues to get rather splendid reviews. On 23 March, it will be published also in a German edition. Probably a good time to post another short excerpt from it....
View ArticleOnce again: the regulation of nonsense will generate nonsense – the case of...
The Telegraph today reports that, despite relentless lobbying from the Prince of Wales, UK herbalists will not, after all, be regulated by statute. Here are the most important statements from this...
View ArticleThe ‘spider memo’ which the press forgot
Prince Charles’ meddling beyond his constitutional role is yet again in the press today. I was sent the 2nd batch of ‘spider memos’ yesterday, studied them and commented as follows: The letters...
View ArticlePrince Charles and the basic laws of stupidity
All this recent attention to Charles’ amazing letters and unconstitutional meddling made me think quite a lot about STUPIDITY. Thus I came across the writings of Carlo Maria Cipolla who seemed to have...
View Article‘What happened to your research unit at Exeter?’
One of the questions that I hear regularly is: ‘What happened to your research unit at Exeter?’ Therefore it might be a good idea to put the full, shameful story on this blog. After the complaint by...
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