Doublethink according to Orwell’s 1984 is “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them” essentially it is to hold two mutually exclusive beliefs as correct. I can [...]

Regular readers to this blog, hello to you, will remember my post a couple of weeks ago about Pet Plan and their insurance policy that covers alternative medicine. I wrote a letter to Pet Plan asking why they were happy to pay out for treatments that don’t work; you can read this letter here. My [...]

I’ve been busy earning a wage the past few days so apologies for this rant coming a little late. On Tuesday the British Medical Association came out and said that Homeopathy “should be banned from use in the NHS” and that “pharmacists should remove homeopathic remedies from their shelves because this indicated they were medicines”, [...]