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UK Roundup 6/08/09
London homeopathy purveyors Ainsworths have incurred the wrath of the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for selling a remedy known as ‘Swine Flu Formula’. The company claims...
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UK Roundup 02/09/09
The British Humanist Association has sparked a bit of controversy by attacking a creationist zoo called Noah’s Ark Farm, near Bristol. The BHA claims that the zoo misleads large numbers of visitors...
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UK Roundup 22/09/09
Two of the usual suspects Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins have been in the UK news recently, Brown for his new TV show, and Dawkins due to his support for libel law reform. ‘Mentalist’, anti-psychic...
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UK Roundup 21/10/09
UK newspapers, notably The Telegraph, are reporting the latest figures released from Allergy UK that apparently claim that 45% of the UK’s population are suffering from food intolerance of one sort or...
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UK Roundup 26/11/09
Looks like Ian (below) beat me to it…more on current UK Homeopathy inquiry. It would seem that homeopathy in the UK is finally coming under some long-deserved scrutiny. Shockingly the taxpayer funded...
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2010: What’s In Store – Could the Answer Lie in Your Vege Garden?
As the year draws to a close the usual bunch of psychics and deluded souls queue up to make vague predictions about the year ahead. This year one in particular caught my eye however – step forward...
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UK Roundup 23/2/2010
It’s been rather a good start to the new year with some fresh shoots of sensibility starting to poke their heads above the murky soils of irrationality. In a follow-up to the House of Commons Science...
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Rationality -2 Asparagus – 0
Just a quick not to point out that ludicrous English mystic Jemima Packington who claims to predict the future with asparagus (!) – see earlier vegetable garden post below – Do Not Trust This...
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Sensing Failure
Sensing...Absolutely NothingDespite being the only author of this blog resident in the UK I’ve managed to keep tabs on the NZ version of ‘Sensing Murder’, a particularly abhorrent TV programme which...
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UK Roundup 29/4/2010
More good news from the UK – it’s great to have such a positive start to the year. Coming hard on the heels of the collapse of the British Chiropractic Association’s libel case against science writer...
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