Thursday, December 31, 2009

Ginkgo biloba doesn't work - CNN Health News

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CNN Story "Ginkgo biloba has failed -- again -- to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and  brain function . Just over a yea...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Evidence based faith?

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I wonder what this story teaches us? Mmegi, 21st December - " Church Still In Deep Shock After Pastors Drown "
Friday, November 27, 2009

The Voice - Dear Consumer's Voice

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Dear Consumer’s Voice #2   Some months ago I visited a web site that offered me a free astrological reading. I got an email from the site...
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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