Skeptical about the skeptics

Whenever I really want to be amused, I spend a few minutes reading the latest admonishments and retortments from the extreme skeptics of natural medicine. By “extreme skeptics,” I don’t mean actual critical thinkers who apply genuine open-minded curiosity to the world around them, I mean the pseudoscientific zealots who berate anyone who believes in [...]

The Semmelweis Reflex

On this blog, I often talk about the way the mind works. We are flooded with information all the time, so the mind has to filter through this vast volume of data and choose what to give attention to, then process it into recognizable form. Science tells us the world is quite a different place [...]

Quackwatch Begging for Money for Legal Costs

Dr. Barrett’s followers are begging for donations to pay for legal costs after the California Supreme court fined him and Polevoy for bringing forth a frivilous lawsuit. The court batte went on for 6 years against Ilena Rosenthal. Why these individuals would want to spend so much effort going after someone who is out to [...]

Uri Geller – UFO’s, metal-bending and the PSI War

“Uri Geller.” Two words which seem to invoke passion in anyone who has read about or seen this truly remarkable person. Yet if one is lucky enough to meet or speak to the man himself, you quickly realise what a disarming and genuine person he really is.
So why all the fuss?
Uri says that he first [...]

Anti-alternative “Quackbusters” Have Giant Court Losses on Two Continents: Holland, Pennsylvania & California Courts Rule Against Them

PRESS RELEASE:
Recent rulings in Amsterdam, Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of California are heavy blows to the Quackwatch anti-chiropractic and anti-alternative medicine organizations.
After years of being labeled a”quack,” defamed and ridiculed professionally, ” Dr. Maria Sickesz won a great victory in Amsterdam, Holland early June 2007.
The Netherlands Appeals Court ordered the “Vereniging tegen [...]

Skeptics Left Doubting Their Own Skepticism

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) June 20, 2007 — On June 14th ,2007 at Simon Fraser University, B.C. Skeptics Colloquium sponsored a lecture by Arthur Grollman, M.D., Professor of Pharmacological Sciences at the University of New York Stony Brook. Barry Beyerstein, PhD, a professor of Psychology at S.F.U. and head of the B.C. Skeptics Society, hosted the [...]

Chiropractors Claim Court Victory Against Infamous ‘Quackbuster’

Chiropractors Claim Court Victory Against Infamous ‘Quackbuster’
http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/06/14/DCTH129/chiropractors-claim-court-victory-against-infamous-quackbuster.html
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., June 14 PRNewswire-USNewswire — In a strongly worded opinion, the Appeals Court for the State of Pennsylvania ruled against Stephen Barrett, a long-time critic of chiropractic and alternative health care. In an action that chiropractors see as a major setback for their nemesis, the [...]

Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease

http://www.redflagsdaily.com/my_opinion/2005_jun23.html

Excerpt:

IN MY OPINION
Challenging Quackwatch’s Position on Lyme Disease

By Marjorie Tietjen
Director For Lyme Concerns
Common Cause Medical Research Foundation

The honest unvarnished truth concerning Lyme Disease, it’s
co-infections and chronic illness will be exposed. Deception and fraud
eventually bring about their own demise. This is simply a natural law
of the universe. In the meantime, however, we need to be [...]

Quackwatch Exposed

(Barrett’s publicists have been working long and hard and diligently to keep
this valid information off the internet)

http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html

Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch Exposed In Court Cases
At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete, Barrett conceded that
he was not a Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed the
certification exam.

This was a major revelation since Barrett had [...]

Gerson Documentary Humiliates Quackbusters

Monday, May 21st, 2007 – I almost spilled my cup of jasmine tea,  I was laughing so hard.
I had just been viewing the first part of a DVD video documentary called “Dying to Have Known,” and  I had to stop the thing right there, and rewind, to see if what I had just seen really [...]