Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)

Loving these autotune YouTube videos.  Found this one via PZ Myers’ Pharyngula blog.

Homeopathy and the Parliamentary Sci Tech Committee

At last, what appears to be a sensible approach to homeopathy.  The SciTech committee have published a report which says, quite rightly, that as there is no evidence for the magic water / sugar pills and that it should no longer be payed for by the NHS.  It also recommends that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should stop licensing it.

Ben Goldacre has an article up highlighting the important parts here, the BBC have an article here and the select committee's report is available here.

It's a start, next we need the government to make the right decision and remove homeopathy from the NHS fully.

Quite Funny

Lily Allen just tweeted this and I’d have to agree it is rather amusing…

Be careful of the woo

Two posts in the same day, it's a record for this site already.

I'm not sure on the science behind the claim that 'Chinese herbal pills gave woman cancer' reported by the BBC here but I consider it a story worth sharing.  We do really need to educate people better as to what 'alternative medicine' is.  As per the great Tim Minchin:

"...You know what they call “alternative medicine”.
That’s been proved to work?
Medicine...”

A follow up story is here.

If you’re an atheist, a skeptic, a freethinker, or just annoyed by hippies, I'd recommend looking for Tim's stuff on YouTube, you’ll love it.

Edited to add Storm video below…

Christopher Maloney is a quack

Being an avid reader of PZ Myers' blog, Pharyngula, how could I not respond, even with my first post of this new blog, to the request in this post.  I strongly recommend the whole blog, it's always entertaining and you'll probably learn something too.