Thursday, October 29, 2009

Who has rights? (Mmegi Consumer Watchdog column)

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We’ve been getting phone calls at the office. Unfortunately none of them were offering us large quantities of money (hint), free brand new ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

A UK legal scandal - Trafigura

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Some companies, and their law firms, particularly those like Carter Ruck in the UK,  behave like utter scumbags. Direct quote from Wikilea...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

We get mail - the QXCI/EPFX/SCIO silliness

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Intrigued by the SCIO/QXCI/EPFX machine we mentioned in Mmegi this week, I emailed one of the South African web sites advertising it.  I sa...

Fighting nonsense (Mmegi Consumer Watchdog column)

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It’s been a hard couple of weeks. I’m trying hard to think of a recent example of someone NOT being hugely gullible and naïve. I had a bos...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Fortune tellers are criminals - Botswana Guardian

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There are times when I love the law. Not the boring bits, I mean the bits that actually outlaw something that deserves to be outlawed. I a...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

“How to read articles about health” – by Dr Alicia White

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From the ever excellent Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science site. How to read articles about health and healthcare

Homeopathy and science - Dara O'Brien

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Warning. Not safe for work unless you work for a particularly enlightened company. Lots of rude words but an excellent attack on pseudosci...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Irritating "traditional doctors" - Botswana Guardian

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Yes, they're irritating but I've also been irritating them. I responded to a number of advertisements from some of these so-called...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

Simon Singh - Chiropractic

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Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This i...
Monday, July 06, 2009

GenQuest - Multi Level Marketing comes to Botswana again

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A Malaysian called Goh Seng Hong is in Botswana trying to introduce us to GenQuest, a Multi-Level Marketing company. He's doing a prese...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

"Dr" Jabu - an update

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Action has been taken!
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Self improvement

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Courtesy of Pharyngula
Friday, May 29, 2009

Warning traditional healers - 3rd response

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Can anyone translate this? Ubwere mawa ndizakupase mankhwala okulisa mbolo ,chifukwa mbolo yako ndaona pa kalabashi kuti ndiyaying'ono ...

Warning traditional healers - 2nd response

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I get an SMS which says: Thank u for let me know that there is a law who bar me not to advertise in the news paper,so how am i going to adve...

Warning traditional healers - 1st response

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A "Dr" Masunga called in response to the SMS. He says he's qualified as a doctor of medicine from Malawi, he's been pract...

Warning traditional healers

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I SMSed a range of "traditional healers" who had advertised in local newspapers. I said: Warning! Your advertisement in the newsp...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Lying to lying healers - Botswana Guardian

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It wasn’t just me lying to them, it was them lying to me. A confession. I emailed a certain “Dr” Jabu who recently advertised his treatment...
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A cure for AIDS from "Dr" Jabu

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The email I provoked from the so-called "Dr" Jabu, who is a crook, a liar and a fraud. Or he might just be a lunatic. ----- Many ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Science & religion - Botswana Guardian

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My recent letter celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and 150th anniversary the publication of his masterpiece, ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

And you think fish are dull?

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THIS is an example of why I think science and nature are thrilling, magnificent and awesome (all three terms to be taken literally). Yes, th...