So, as far as I can tell from my reading about acupuncture studies, the higher the quality of the study, the less benefit "real" acupuncture has over sham acupuncture. Traditional acupuncture points are no better than randomly chosen acupuncture points, and twirled toothpicks are just as effective as needles sticking into your body ( Read more... )

While I was down the coast over the weekend, I happened to be a witness to what I have come to consider to be a fairly typical misinformation spiel by a naturopath.

Naturopaths are strong believers that naturally occurring "stuff" is intrinsically better for you than "stuff" that is "artificial". It's a fundamentally* flawed philosophy, but there' ( Read more... )

I'm quite definitely fed up with being sick. Monday night, I was coughing all night, and Tuesday morning, discovered I was running a mild fever (37.9). So, I hied me off to a doctors surgery (well, health cinic, really, it seems there aren't any GPs in Canberra ( Read more... )