medicine

From The Rollo New Era, March 06, 1897

Makes penis related spam seem a bit tame. I bet the book wasn’t free. Lol.

Please watch this video.

Having watched it you’ll probably agree that Matthias Rath dropping a case against the Guardian and Ben Goldace is a good thing indeed.  Ben Goldacre attacked with the troll stick of truth and won. Read about it in today’s Guardian, Ben’s Bad Science blog, and other blogs that are covering it.  It’s worth covering.

Picture borrowed from here.  Transport history is underrated.

And well done Guardian for sticking up for your writers in-between fellating the Labour Party and (on the plus side) pissing off the Tories.

Simon Singh, author and good egg, is being sued by the British Chiropractic Association (note: it’s not a .org.uk address) because he said chiropractors knowingly promote bogus treatments.  It is lolworthy. Their legal attack will amount to them saying they promote bogus treatments – but not knowingly. Heh.  Chiropractic medicine is based on nonsense, and lacks any solid evidence.  If it had solid evidence it would simply be referred to as medicine.

Read more about it on Holford Watch.

Have a bit of a laugh at the press release they produced saying teens need to worry more about their health – here.  What a bunch of twats.  Their press releases, in my opinion, amount to sales literature.

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Someone needs to set up a “shut up or I’ll sue you blog” documenting people with thin skins suing because they can’t handle debate.

I have a bad back. At the moment I go to bed at night thinking, by fuck I’ve got a bad back, and I wake up thinking, by fuck, my bad back has returned. I know the cure to this ailment. It’s a form of distraction therapy pioneered in the treatment of many rock stars. For £50,000, of someone else’s money (essential), a morning, I could be woken up by nude models throwing money at me. It wouldn’t, strictly speaking, cure the bad back, but mornings would at least be tolerable. It doesn’t work with piddly amounts of money because fifty pence pieces and pound coins hurt.