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 [...]

So we recently got some kittens, Taz and Pixel are their names, there’s a blog so if you like cute furry things go visit and leave some comments, Susie will be delighted. Although my family has had cats for years it is always exciting getting your own pet for the first time. We have been [...]

The upcoming 10:23 campaign has meant that homeopathy is on most skeptic’s minds. A recent blog post by @endless_psych got me thinking about being open minded and what evidence it would take to convince me that homeopathy had something to it. Aside from the obvious positive randomised, placebo (what’s the fucking difference between a homeopathic sugar [...]

I came across an interesting blog post over at The Lay Scientist last week which discussed a paper written in 2002 that looked at search results from the leading search engines of the day when you typed in ‘vaccinations’. It found that on Google of the first 10 websites that came up 100% were anti-vaccination promoting sites. [...]

I heard a rather frustrating radio broadcast a while ago on BBC Essex and sent them an email to complain. Here is the correspondence; I recently took the time to tune into the BBC Essex Mid Morning programme on which there was a segment about the mystical practice of Reiki. In this segment the Reiki [...]