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Scepticon · 2W ago

Guess what Percentage of the World Thinks it Will End In Their lifetime?

The optimist in me (no sniggers please it’s not polite) would liked to have thought that this percentage is quite low. You know, in the barely worth mentioning category. Alas, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos the world average is about 14%. One in seven. Think about that for a second. One seve
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Scepticon · 1M ago

TCM and You: Cupping

I have noticed that Chinese massage seems to be becoming popular, and seemingly with it Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM1). At least browsing through two of the larger shopping centres in Hamilton (bring on the hick jokes) I saw massage centres offering these services. In particular cupping was adv
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Scepticon · 1M ago

Monday Afternoon Movies: From Daleks to Vectron

I was collecting up videos to drip feed when I got around to it, but figured I may as well post them all at once to liven up a Monday afternoon. Enjoy. The Great and Powerful Tyson… Dan Dennett on “Deepities”… “Vectron” from the amazingly funny Mitchell and Webb…. Levitation, I have to admit while [
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Scepticon · 1M ago

Amber Teething Beads: A Follow-Up

Over the week or so I expect the page views for my amber teething necklace post to top 20,000 over the two blogs. Interest in the article has just kept increasing over the last year or so of it being up, as opposed to the majority of my posts which slip into internet obscurity within [...]
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Scepticon · 1M ago

Future History: Apocalypse Then

End of the world predictions and scenarios abound, we have always been fascinated with our own demise it seems. Last year I covered the predictions of Harold Camping and the relatively small following he had in his advertising the apocalypse campaign. This year we have the Mayans to blame and it’s r
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Scepticon · 2M ago

Why Do People Use Alternative Medicine?

I often read that the reason people are turning to complementary/alternative/integrative(take your pick) medicine is because they are dissatisfied with the care received from mainstream/conventional/”western”* medicine. This may be true for a small segment of the population, those with a chronic ill
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Scepticon · 2M ago

First, Do No Harm

Primum non nocere A while ago I was accused of advocating that doctors should break the Hippocratic oath. That the cardinal rule of “First, do no harm” should be ignored. Setting aside that this phrase does not appear in the Hippocratic oath, what do we mean by harm in the context of medicine? I was
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Scepticon · 2M ago

The Role of Experiments in Science

In an attempt to widen my horizons I have been listening to the Philosophy Now podcast out of the UK. A recent episode concerned philosophy of science (ep 29) and the host asked an interesting question: “Why do we have to have experiments when sometimes we can get away with observations?”. The point
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Scepticon · 3M ago

The Freedom of Ignorance: Health Freedom, What is it and Do We Want it?

When policy around how herbal remedies, alternative medicines, supplements and all sorts of other practices outside the mainstream of medical practice is discussed the concept of “Health Freedom” inevitably comes up. It’s not always couched in that term but the idea is that people should be free to
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Scepticon · 4M ago

Chiropractic for the 21st Century

Every week I get a number of email alerts about various online medical journals. Each email represents the opportunity for blogging material though many are deathly dull. Several of the journals I receive alerts from are in the AltMed domain and I sometimes wonder why I bother looking through them a
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