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The Homeopathic A & E

I love Mitchell and Webb, and this is just one reason why. They totally get homeopathy, as this video e-mailed to me by a reader demonstrates: Pay close attention to the signs in the A & E. Too bad this is too late for Homeopathy Awareness Week. And they’re funny, to boot. While I’m on […]

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Taking the naturopathic option

If you had the choice between the “standard” option for insurance or the naturopathic option, which would you choose? (Click to see the full cartoon; it’s a bit old. But I hadn’t seen it before; so it’s new to me.) Of course, this is the very reason alt-med boosters don’t want anyone to have to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Quackery Television

Stephen Colbert on the Zicam fiasco

Last week, I wrote about the FDA’s warning about the zinc-containing “homeopathic” cold remedy known as Zicam. Basically, Zicam was approved without testing to show it to be both safe and efficacious because it slipped in using an old 1938 law that allows homeopathic remedies to bypass the usual process for FDA approval. Too bad […]

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Where better to celebrate the Summer Solstice than Stonehenge?

This reminds me of my trip to England two years ago, when my wife and I did visit Stonehenge: However, what I’d really love is to have the title this guy has: Druid King Arthur Pendragon told the BBC shortly before sunrise: “It’s a very nice atmosphere and everything’s fine at the moment. “There have […]

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Homeopathic plutonium? Now there’s a hot time in the old town tonight!

In keeping with Homeopathy Awareness Week (which still runs until June 21), I can’t resist commenting on this gem of a story that was sent to me the other day. I mean, we’re talking super duper heaving shopping in the very heart of London. It turns out that the Helios Homeopathy Shop right in Covent […]