Thanks to Helen Smith we learnt yesterday that Barbara O'Neill (she is the dangerous charlatan who featured on my blog before, see here and here ) was recently awarded an "Honorary Diploma" by the ...

If I remember correctly, I was - some 20 years ago - a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (EBCAM). I also published several ...

This article aimed to describe the applications of homeopathy in women with non-metastatic breast cancer in France. Patients, general practitioner-homeopaths, and oncologists were included based on ...

Nearly every time that I talk to proponents of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) I hear a lot about diet. Diet is a central theme to almost all of them, it seems. In such conversations, several ...

RAND claims to be "a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND ...

While the evidence base on web-based cancer misinformation continues to develop, relatively little is known about the extent of such information on the world’s largest e-commerce website, Amazon.

In Europe, homeopathy is not enjoying the best of times. Firtst, the English NHS stopped reimbursing it, then France followed suit, and later the Germans too started thinking about it. Now it might be ...