What’s the harm? Well, homeopathy could (indirectly) kill you.
Penelope Dingle suffered unnecessary pain – and eventually died – because Francine Scrayen insisted on “treating” her with quackery instead of encouraging her to seek medical treatment for her cancer.
Tim Noakes on carbohydrates
Tim Noakes has moved from advocating carbo-loading to suggesting that carbohydrates are an addiction that poses severe health risks. But while his revised recommendations are couched in the language of science, does the science support them?
Giubilini and Minerva on abortion and infanticide
Whether abortion and infanticide are morally equivalent or not is a legitimate question for discussion, and ethicists should be allowed to have it without encountering death threats. However, emotive responses to these issues are also legitimate, and needn’t be dismissed out of hand.
Woo-woo fest comes to Wits
As funny as conspiracy-theorists, UFOlogists and other quacks can sometimes be, it’s a peculiar choice when universities host their conferences, or when universities award degrees in homeopathy.
John Edward is coming to eat your brain
John Edward, New Age woo-talk, astrology columns in newspapers, The Secret, and the fact that some take Deepak Chopra seriously are all part of the same basic problem, namely that our hopes for life to have some significance beyond the here-and-now lead us to suspend – or at least suppress – critical judgement.
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