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:jawdrop: That's hardly a glowing endorsement of their treatment.

Chinese electro-acupuncture on rats? I certainly don't think we should be afraid the grasp the potato. Firstly I'd like to know which criteria was used to diagnose the rats with "CFS" - Fukuda, CCC, SEID, or Ramsey? Secondly I note that there were only a small number of rats (n=10) in each...

I enjoyed reading it. I looked at the picture before I read the text, and thought "Oh, that's cool, a tatoo of an electrical socket in someone waiting to be charged up". But it's a pause sign. I might get it anyway, just have to decide where to put it.

I tried allergy shots for 2 years and they did nothing for me. At no time did anyone suggest that it was because I wasn't trying hard enough or doing it properly. I was also not threatened with financial penalties or being locked up. It just didn't work, but nobody appeared to take it as a...

Very disappointed the article didn't quote the swearwords.

Griffith and Don Staines featured in this: Haven't watched it all myself, I stopped at some point because something annoyed me, can't remember what.

Have you considered strapping a slice of buttered toast to your cat's back? Apparently cats always land on their feet, and buttered toast always lands buttered side down, so with the toast strapped to her back when she fell off the window ledge she'd start spinning and become a perpetual motion...

What drives people to reject the truth? If you replace "truth" with "Michael Sharpe's belief system" it becomes easier to see where the problem is. He is convinced that his belief system is the absolute truth, and no amount of evidence is going to persuade him otherwise, because it's a belief...

I'm really pleased you've found some improvement and I hope it persists. But I have to ask If you had had any spontaneous improvement in the first three years, or since then whilst trying something, wouldn't you also be saying And insert whatever you were trying at the time at the end of...

MUS = Medically Undiagnosed Symptoms.

I should probably start a separate thread because business possibilities for TiredSam's Homepathic Remedies keep popping into my head: 1. Draft a proposal to help the UK government reduce medical costs by having TiredSam's Homeopathic Remedies delivered to every tap in the country. I know the...

I know it's only a subjective n=1 anecdote, but I sometimes find a sip of water can be rather restorative. Perhaps homeopaths should concentrate on marketing the benefits of water rather than the benefits of ingredients that are no longer in the water - at least that way they wouldn't have to...

This is worth reading just for the following:

Why did this post make me think of Jimmy Saville?

Sorry, is one of you Chiara Ferragni? If so, which one?

It's appalling that a bunch of psychs can't tell the difference. I have a phobia, and the way I react when it is triggered is fairly unmistakeably phobic. But if my wife says "shall we go for a walk?" and I say "No, don't really feel up to it at the moment" that's a completely different kettle...

Any patients who don't respond to rhubarb will be taken into custardy.

Genius - ask the patient to fill in a questionnaire about how they feel about rhubarb. Smack them with rhubarb. Ask them to fill in a questionnaire about how they feel about rhubarb again. That'll give you plenty of data to claim something about rhubarb with, and that's before you've even...

Anyone mind if I replace the word "groups" with "medical professionals"? Still waiting for those secondary gains. Mind you, it's only been 4.5 years ... The Wesselydrivel from the book above shows the typical reaction to criticism of a certain kind of psychoquack - just diagnose and label the...

If they'd said 1D they might have had a point.