Something that I see a lot in on-line debates about alternative medicine is phrases like “I did my own research” or “people should be allow...

I didn’t know Rachel at all. But I was told her story last night, and all of today I have been thinking about her. I don’t know how old she...

Today it is Hallowe'en. And in honour of one of the scariest, most horrific things to have happened today (the release of What The Docto...

Imagine you're twelve years old. You're on the cusp of adolescence, a time where you start to move away from the comfort and prote...

We all know smoking is bad for us, and we all know that giving it up is a good idea. E-cigarettes have been around for a good few years now,...

I shouldn't be having to write this blog. We shouldn't still be having to see news stories about measles outbreaks in 2013. We have ...

In February 2013, my friend Nancy and I delivered a Newcastle Skeptics in the Pub talk entitled Homeopathy: Where's The Harm? As a fol...

This post is a taster of the the next in our series of blogposts following on from our SITP talk about the harms of homeopathy It's wri...

A while ago, +Adam Jacobs or @DianthusMed brought to my attention to the fact that Amazon UK are selling unlicensed medicines imported fr...

In February 2013, my friend Nancy and I delivered a Newcastle Skeptics in the Pub talk entitled Homeopathy: Where's The Harm? As a foll...

And so begins the third installment in our Homeopathic Harms series, a collaboration between myself and @Skanky_Fish of the Evidence Bas...

And so it was that I ventured onto Facebook last night, for the first time in a while. And what I discovered there was an intriguing post ab...

Many years ago, just after I qualified, I was working in a new 100 hour pharmacy in a very well known supermarket chain. To be honest, the...

A couple of years ago, I was working a locum shift in a supermarket pharmacy. It was quite late at night, and a man came up to the counter t...