Quasi-medicine

Mass Homeopathy Overdose Protest

Feb 11th, 2010 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

Water’s for drinking and swimming in.



Quasi-Medicine Qualifications and Accreditation

Jan 23rd, 2010 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

Regulating quacks



When Is A Treatment Not A Treatment? When It’s A Thought Field Therapy

Nov 7th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

More quasi-medical horse-shit



Neuro Linguistic Programming and Smoking Cessation

Mar 10th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Favourites, Quasi-medicine

A comment from one of our regular visitors got me thinking.
I wrote a piece about smoking cessation and Elle remarked that she intended to visit a local hypnotherapist because he seemed to be properly qualified.
Hmm, I thought. What exactly does properly qualified mean?
Well, the first place to start might be a quick Google search, [...]



Charlatans

Aug 13th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Quasi-medicine

People are so desperate they’ll believe any shit. Isn’t it true? Of course it is, and in evidence, I bring forward the matter of BSc degrees in Alternative Medicine. Now there’s an idea for you.
Let’s juxtapose those words for a minute while we contemplate their contradictory meaning.
Bachelor of Science. Alternative medicine.
Hmm.
They’re [...]