by Alan Freestone | Jun 7, 2012 | Con-med, Homeopathy
I was going to call this post something unwieldy like “how to save billions of dollars/pounds & hundreds of thousands of lives every year using one common herbal remedy”… but it wouldn’t fit! There is a plant that grows in every mature...
by Alan Freestone | Jun 3, 2012 | Con-med
“Britain faces a £30bn bill to clean up rivers, streams and drinking water supplies contaminated by synthetic hormones from contraceptive pills. Drastic reductions in these chemicals, which have been linked to collapses in fish populations, are proposed in the...
by Alan Freestone | May 21, 2012 | Con-med
Please take a few seconds out of your day to click on the link & sign the petition. Free access to homeopathic remedies under threat! The well organised campaign to simultaneously ridicule & outlaw homeopathy grinds on…from one side of their mouths they...
by Alan Freestone | May 6, 2012 | Con-med
A letter to the BMJ The link above is of a letter printed in the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) today. The author, Bill Welsh, highlights the continuing rise in the rates of autism & the inability of the medical profession to investigate possible...
by Alan Freestone | Mar 28, 2012 | Con-med
I’ve counted four broadsheet papers that have printed negative articles about homeopathy in the last week. This comes at the time that ‘professor’ Ernst (first professor of complementary medicine until he stepped down last year) published a paper...
by Alan Freestone | Mar 16, 2012 | Con-med, Homeopathy
I’m sure most of us are aware of the increasing ineffectiveness of the 20th centuries wonder-drug, anti-biotics. Most stories in the papers are designed to make us more fearful, & this one is no exception. That anti-biotic resistant bacteria are spreading...
by Alan Freestone | Feb 16, 2011 | Con-med, Vaccinations
A mainstream story from the US. Scandalous...
by Alan Freestone | Sep 21, 2010 | Con-med
In an article published in the American Journal of Medicine and entitled: “Should We Maintain an Open Mind about Homeopathy?” Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst, addressing their colleagues, strongly criticised homeopathy: “Homeopathy is among the worst...
by Alan Freestone | Sep 20, 2010 | Con-med
No one at Arena Pharmaceuticals could accuse ceo Jack Lief of being a rat. In a conference call yesterday with analysts after an FDA panel rejected the drugmaker’s Lorqess diet pill due to safety concerns, Lief acknowledged that different forms of cancer had been seen...
by Alan Freestone | Sep 16, 2010 | Con-med
NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) use is closely associated with increased risk of strokes, nearly doubling for ibuprofen doses of more than 200 milligrams, which is the standard amount found in a single over the counter pill. The study, presented at the...
by Alan Freestone | Aug 19, 2010 | Con-med
Now that we have finally seen that Ben is his daddy’s son: http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/08/whats-behind-ben-goldacre-.html We can begin to piece together where the wonderkid might have come from. He appeared fully grown in 2003, already an opinion-former. His...
by Alan Freestone | Aug 19, 2010 | Con-med
“Large firms hyped-up patented medicines, spent vast amounts on getting doctors to prescribe them and underplayed serious side effects, said Prof Donald Light, a sociologist and professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry...
