France’s Conseil d’État has delivered a significant legal and symbolic defeat to homoeopathy. In decisions published on 2 October, it annulled disciplinary sanctions imposed on three doctors who had ...
The pervasive use of cell phones has led to a substantial increase in pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in our immediate environment. For pharmaceuticals, close proximity EMF effects are considered ...
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Dolly Parton once observed wittily and self-critically. Her bon mot made me realise that homeopathy offers an equally remarkable, proposition: it costs a ...
A controversial vaccine study was given approval to move forward this week. It central to the vaccine vision for Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services ...
When French high school pupils gather in the streets, they are not, as casual bystander might assume, asking for adequately heated classrooms, or fewer students per classroom, or fully staffed schools ...
Humour is said to be the best therapy. It certainly can act as a psychological release valve that defuses anxiety, exposes absurdity, and keeps us grounded. But its cathartic power comes with a catch: ...
It takes a special kind of geopolitical sophistication to hear a president of the US suggest that vaporizing millions of your fellow countrymen is “a very small price to pay” and think, “Yes, ...
When discussing so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), logical fallacies are seldom far away. Recognising how they are used might sharpen our own reasoning and help us exposing misleading claims. Here ...