by Alan Freestone | Aug 19, 2010 | Con-med
A third of the experts advising the World Health Organisation about the swine flu pandemic had ties to drugs firms, it has emerged. Five of the 15 specialists who sat on the emergency committee had received funding from pharmaceutical giants, or were linked to them...
by Alan Freestone | Aug 19, 2010 | Con-med
“Postmenopausal women taking certain diabetes medications, including the popular drugs Avandia and Actos, may be at increased risk for bone fractures, according to a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System. The study of more than 3,000 patients...
by Alan Freestone | Feb 23, 2010 | Con-med
I found this article about one of big-pharma’s (many) crimes on an American investing website. http://seekingalpha.com/article/189767-glaxosmithkline-s-blood-money?source=hp_wc here’s a choice quote, “In a recent article in The New York Times, global...
by Alan Freestone | Feb 10, 2010 | Con-med
On Monday, the senior scientist Lord Krebs wrote an article in The Times entitled:- “We might err, but science is self-correcting” The basic argument was:- “If claims about climate change need to be debunked, you can rely on scientists to do it. Scepticism is what we...
by Alan Freestone | Feb 1, 2010 | Con-med
How much has the NHS spent of our money ‘protecting’ us from a non-existent threat? The answer is around £1 BILLION! This would pay for homeopathy on the NHS for the next 250 YEARS! We were assured by ‘experts’ that there was a very serious...
by Alan Freestone | Jan 7, 2010 | Con-med
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by Alan Freestone | Jan 6, 2010 | Con-med
I’ve let the two skeptic loonies to repeat their mantras long enough in the ‘comments’ section of 20th Century Musical Geniuses Who Loved Homeopathy. I didn’t want to, but I have removed their latest comments. They are just a repeat of their...
by Alan Freestone | Dec 29, 2009 | Con-med
I think I may have stumbled upon the Professional Homeopathic Skeptics next plan of attack: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409638 So…Colquhoun is planning to target the homeopathic colleges next, perhaps he’s...
by Alan Freestone | Dec 23, 2009 | Con-med
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6871387/Brittany-Murphy-10-different-drugs-found-at-her-bedside.html This is the story of the actress Brittany Murphy who died at the tender age of 32. 10 different medications were found at her bedside. I think...
by Alan Freestone | Oct 19, 2009 | Con-med
Well it appears there are two articles planted…sorry ‘appearing’ in the media today attacking the idea that people might want to take responsibility for their health. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/134841/Vitamin-pill-cancer-risk- “VITAMIN...
by Alan Freestone | Oct 6, 2009 | Con-med
Once again the media publishes a gushing account of how we are on the brink of a ‘cancer treatment revolution’. This time it is Sir David Lane, chief scientist of Cancer Research UK no less, telling us we’re going to live forever in techno-utopia...
by Alan Freestone | Oct 5, 2009 | Con-med
As I mentioned in my previous post on cancer & homeopathy, I had some correspondence with Cancer Research UK. I had asked them if they had paid for any research into the homeopathic treatment of cancer (there is afterall voluminous anecdotal evidence stretching...
