University of Buckingham does the right thing. The Faculty of Integrated...
Jump to follow-up This post recounts a complicated story that started in January 2009, but has recently come to what looks like a happy ending. The story involves over a year’s writing of letters and...
View ArticleBuckinghamgate: the new “College of Medicine” arising from the ashes of the...
Jump to follow-up Suggested twitter tag: #buckgate Number 19 Buckingham Street, London WC2N 6EF.is to be the home of the proposed "College of Medicine" that has arisen from the ashes of the late...
View ArticleDon’t be deceived. The new “College of Medicine” is a fraud and delusion
Jump to follow-up The Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Integrated Health shut down amidst scandal in April 2010. In July, we heard that a new “College of Medicine” was to arise from its ashes. It seemed...
View ArticleA thoroughly dangerous charity: YesToLife promotes nonsense cancer treatments
Jump to follow-up An email yesterday alerted me to YesToLife. This outfit seemed to me to be so dangerous that a word of warning is in the public interest. Their own description says “YES TO LIFE is a...
View ArticleThe diary: June 2011 – May 2012
Jump to latest diary entries Jump to comments This is a story of everyday researchers and teachers, struggling to do their job in a world pervaded by management bollocks. This page is a continuation...
View ArticleThe Health and Social Security Bill is an unholy mess. Drop it now.
Jump to follow-up [Use Firefox if embedded videos do not show in Chrome] Andrew Lansley’s Health Bill (HASSB) aims to change the NHS into something more like the US system, which gives worse results at...
View ArticleThe College of Medicine is in the pocket of Crapita Capita. Is Graeme Catto...
Jump to follow-up The College of Medicine is well known to be the reincarnation of the late unlamented Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health. I labelled it as a Fraud and Delusion, but that...
View ArticleDr Michael Dixon of the “College of Medicine” seems to admit that alternative...
Jump to follow-up Much has been written on this blog about Dr Michael Dixon, and about the "College of Medicine", which is the direct inheritor of the mantle of the late, unlamented, Prince’s...
View ArticleBait and switch by herbalists, Chinese and Western. Simon Mills speaks.
Jump to follow-up Although many university courses in quackery have now closed, two subjects that hang on in a few places are western herbalism, and traditional Chinese medicine (including...
View ArticlePolicy-based evidence. Department of Health and Prince’s Foundation censor...
Jump to follow-up “In causing NHS Choices to publish content that is less than completely frank about the evidence on homeopathy, the DH have compromised the editorial standards of a website that they...
View ArticleA curious letter from David Tredinnick MP, the government’s resident medical...
It’s hard to know what to make of David Tredinnick MP (Cons, Bosworth). He is certainly an extreme example of the scientific ignorance of our parliamentary representatives, but he isn’t alone in that....
View ArticleThe Quacktitioner Royal is a threat to constitutional government and to the...
This article has appeared, in nearly identical form, on the UK Conversation . You can leave comments there or here. The modern major-general A constitutional monarch is purely ceremonial and plays no...
View ArticlePrince Charles’ letters confirm that he’s not fit to be king
Jump to follow-up This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few...
View ArticleThe diary: June 2015 – May 2016
Jump to latest diary entries This is a story of everyday researchers and teachers, struggling to do their job in a world pervaded by management bollocks. This page is a continuation of the diary that...
View ArticleFood the Forgotten Medicine: More bait and switch from the “College of Medicine”
‘We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it’. That is the title of a post in which I advocate the view put by John Ioannidis that remarkably little is...
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