There’s no getting away from it, folks. Its sniffle season. For the next 6 months or so, the sounds of sneezes, coughs, and millions of nos...

I wrote last year about how I dislike Facebook “Games ” that “Raise cancer awareness” in a vague and most probably pretty useless manner. ...

Our Cochrane Collaboration, Hallowed be thy aim. Please have answered my question In your systematic review So I don't have to d...

Imagine there is a door in front of you. There is a person standing next to the door:         "Hey there, pudgy, do you want to be t...

Oh Omega Pharma. Once again you provide me with some juicy blog fodder. XLS - Medical Fat Binder has been on my radar for some time, but ...

If you're buying a new TV, how do you go about it? My guess is that you probably have a look around the shops or internet, find a model ...

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...

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...

Here's the next in our series of blogposts following on from our SITP talk about the harms of homeopathy. This is a guest post written b...

Firewalking is, to be honest, great fun. I did it last year and I shall again be strutting over burning embers in a few week's time, to ...