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When You Just Can't Anymore

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By Charlie G
8 hours ago

Tag: bollocks

Domain searching… and now I can’t stop laughing

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Following a high level web team meeting yesterday, we wondered why no one had registered sh.it as a domain. It seems the Italians were one step ahead and it’s current status is Unassignable.

Well that’s a little unfair, but still, there’s other possibilities. Is there a .ks TLD? Well yes there is, it’s for Kosovo but given that no one can agree on the status of that country, it’s not yet available. That’s bolloc.ks fucked then.

Can’t quite think of any more right now… but I know there’s a .ck TLD, so let’s have a look. Ah the Cook Islands, and it looks like they have a few second level domains as well, let’s just have a look… what the fuck!

Seriously Cook Islands? You think it was a good idea to have a company level domain called .co.ck? Do you have many registrations by any chance?

Testing Homeopathy – Part 3: Research Evidence?

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Homeopathy defies fundamental physics, chemistry and biology. In this video we’ll see how much evidence the Society of Homeopaths was able to bring to bear when a complaint was made to the Advertising Standards Authority, and we’ll look at some of the papers they didn’t present to the ASA.

The ASA’s ruling:
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2013/7/Society-of-Homeopaths/SHP_ADJ_157043.aspx

Referenced papers:

CHILDHOOD DIARRHOEA :
Jacobs et al 2003: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12634583

Other papers:
Jacobs et al 1994: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8165068
Jacbos et al 2000: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10784270
Jacobs et al 2006: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17034278

CHRONIC FATIGUE:
Davison et al 2011: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733480

Other papers:
Awdry et al 1996: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=194209#REF-JRV10026-52
Weatherly-Jones et al 2004: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15016577
Alraek et al 2011: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201900/pdf/1472-6882-11-87.pdf
Reid et al 2011: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3275316/pdf/2011-1101.pdf

Mental Fatigue:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517425/pdf/1472-6882-12-167.pdf

FIBROMYALGIA:
Davidson et al 2011: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733480
Perry et al 2010: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20099019

INFLUENZA:
Vickers et al 2006: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16855981

Other papers:
Mathie et al 2012: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23235586

Other info:
http://www.skepdic.com/oscillococcinum.html
http://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/leading_scientists_and_physicians_rebuke_walmart_for_selling_ineffective_fl

PMS:
Yakir et al 2001: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479782

Other papers:
Danno et al 2013: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23290881

Exercise for PMS:
Vishnupriya et al 2011: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23204690

RHEUMATIC DISEASES:

Other papers:
Jacobs et al 1991: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2008219
Fisher & Scott 2001: http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/9/1052.full.pdf+html
Andrade et al 1991: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2068543

SINUSITIS:
Friese & Zabalotnyi 2007: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17180695
Zabalotnyi et al 2007: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362845
Wiesenauer et al 1989: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2667526

Testing Homeopathy – Part 2

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Homeopathy defies fundamental physics, chemistry and biology. What does it take to become a homeopath? No training is needed at all, but in this video we compare what seems to be the last BSc Homeopathy course in Britain with a BSc in medicine. The claim that the Swiss Government has endorsed homeopathy is also examined.

References:

The Centre for Homeopathic Education:
http://www.homeopathycollege.org/

Imperial College London’s medicine course:
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/teaching/undergraduate/mbbsbscmedicine/

The Contemporary College of Homeopathy:
www.conhom.com/professional-homeopathy-training.php

Society of Homeopaths article of 10 April 2012:
http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/2012/04/swiss-scientists-endorse-homeopathy-evidence

Natural News’ version of Ullman’s article:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035499_homeopathic_medicine_Swiss_report.html

HometopathyPlus’ version repeating claim of “government report”:
http://homeopathyplus.com.au/homeopathy-%E2%80%9Ccost-effective%E2%80%9D-swiss-government/

The Huffington Post original:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-ullman/homeopathic-medicine-_b_1258607.html

Swiss Medical Weekly, “The report “Homeopathy in healthcare: effectiveness, appropriateness, safety, costs” is not a “Swiss report””:
http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2012-13723/

The PEK, and Shang et al’s paper:
http://www.bag.admin.ch/themen/krankenversicherung/00263/00264/04102/index.html

Sven Rudloff’s translation and analysis of the PEK:
http://www.zenosblog.com/2012/05/that-neutral-swiss-homeopathy-report/

The Quackometer’s “The Swizz Report on Homeopathy”:
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/05/the-swizz-report-on-homeopathy.html

The House of Commons Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/45/45.pdf

Other resources for the interested:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/category/homeopathy/

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/fun-with-homeopaths-and-meta-analyses-of-homeopathy-trials/

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/switzerland-endorse-homeopathy/

http://www.quackometer.net