Kryotherapy – Freezing the Balls off a Brazen Quack
The Quackometer is far from perfect. Sometimes quackery slips though its little webbed feet and I need to update it. Often a story in the […]
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The Scent of a Quack…
At last, what appears to be some reasonable criticism of high street quackery in the Daily Mail… Well, it sort of starts out OK with […]
“Once Dismissed as Hokum…” A Guide to Writing About Quackery in the Mail
“Once Dismissed as Hokum” is how Dr Danny Penman begins with a less-than-half-truth in his quacktasticly exceptional article about Spiritual Healing in the Daily Mail, […]
Organic Milk Is/Is Not Healthier
Those of you paying attention will have seen the quackometer spot these two stories from the past few weeks in the Daily Mail: Organic milk […]
The Guild of the Gullible?
I think that this may be a story of despair. It may be a story about the mountain that has to be climbed if we […]
Trademarked Science Trade-Offs
I have written before about my assertion that if you find someone saying that you cannot get all the nutrients you need through food, then […]
Magnetic Migraine Miracle Madness?
In today’s Daily Mail, Brendan Montague brings us the sensational story that Migraine suffers need not suffer much longer thanks to a wonder device about […]
Heart Transplants and ‘Cellular Memory’
Once again, the bonkers story of how organ transplant patients aquire the behavioural characteristics of their donors has cropped up in the more gullible papers. […]