In the wake of the publication of the Science and Technology Committee’s evidence check on homoeopathy, the BBC managed to dig up someone to go on TV and claim that homeopathy cured her cancer:
Gemma Hoefkens is, as the BBC report notes, a practising homeopath – she currently charges £50 for a first consultation and then [...]

Much has already been written on the subject of the first two oral evidence sessions in Science and Technology Committee’s investigation of  homeopathy, more than enough, in fact, to allow me to point you in the direction of a couple of articles by Ben Goldacre and Skepticat’s excellent commentary and let you take it from [...]

Hey, you know me – always up for a bit of Spartacus action.
So as the call has gone out from Sense About Science, asking bloggers to reproduce the article for which Simon Singh is currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association then, of course, I’m more than happy to oblige.
So here it [...]

I’m generally not one for talking up the qualities of Tory Shadow Ministers, as you might easily guess, but I have to admit that for a while I’ve considered the Shadow Education Minister, Michael Gove, to be one of the more quietly impressive figures in what is otherwise a pretty nondescript bunch of obvious mediocrities [...]

Zarathustra, who’s both an occasional visitor to the comment boxes here at the Ministry and a damn fine blogger in their own right, over at Mental Nurse, currently has a very welcome guest post on the go over at my second online home, Liberal Conspiracy, which relates to the emergence of a campaign against proposals [...]

It’s been too long, I know, but I promise that I’ll be picking things up and posting regularly from this point forward.
So let’s get down to business by starting with story that’s particularly dear to my heart, that of Simon Singh’s valient efforts to defend the principle of evidence-based medicine against not only a wholly [...]

It seems that abuse of copyright law are rather like buses – you get nothing for a and then two show up at once.
I’ve commented on the Associated Press’s attempt to sue artist Shephard Fairey for basis his now famous ‘HOPE’ poster on a photograph for which AP hold the distribution right over at Lib [...]

So, has accosting mentally unbalanced rednecks on isolated country roads so lost its charm that ET has taken to randomly knocking blades of wind turbines in Lincolnshire?
Nah, fuck off.
Sorry to disappoint any budding ufologists looking in the but the real villain of piece here isn’t a vistior from outer space, merely plain old physics.
To explain [...]

I’m indebted to the wonderful PZ Myers for drawing my attention to what has to be the most hysterical and ill-conceived political smear in living memory:
Minutes ago I spoke with friend Dr. Norman G. Marvin, M.D. and he is so concerned at what he has learned about Barack Obama’s family in Kenya that he is [...]

One of the more enjoyable aspects of blogging is that sometimes even a throwaway comment can trigger an idea for a new post and, given my personal tastes, a new line of inquiry.
And that’s pretty much what happened after I threw this comment into my remarks about the BBC using a quack shrink to comment [...]