“Don’t mention the war when speaking to a German” | Edzard Ernst

On a good day, I get several emails from complete strangers; some are complimentary, others are critical, and others again are just strange. Few are stranger than the exchange I am about to disclose.

The author asked me twice to treat his/her emails with ‘trust and confidence’; after the second email, I nevertheless felt that I should not respect […]
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Random thoughts on politeness | Edzard Ernst

Politeness means showing consideration for others and observing accepted social rules. Those who know me personally would probably confirm that I am a fairly polite person. And I had always hoped that politeness might also become a feature of how all of us deal with each other on this blog. Sadly this has not proven […]

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How not to defend homeopathy

The story so far: four years ago, I wrote a post entitled Milk in Homeopathy, a Spiritual Perspective which merrily ripped apart the patronising speculations of one Claudia Dias, aka urbanhealing, aka undercover_homeopath, an especially outrageous and mercenary quack. Apart from a few angry screeches from Dias, nobody rushed forward to defend her and even less to defend homeopathy. Until now, that is. Sort of.

This was sent via the site contact form yesterday:

I was a cynic like you, though not angry and arrogant. I took homeopathy to prove it wrong, and it backfired and healed me …

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Alan Hunter’s wibble

Alan Hunter is an obvious crank. His is now barrred from using our email feedback form because he seems unable to comprehend the simple business of comments under blog posts. Unlike Lynne McTaggart, we don’t believe in suppression of speech (mockery is a far more effective way of addressing opposition), so this is a placeholder for a …

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Pompous Twerp Alert: Alan Hunter just found the Contact form

It took him longer than I thought, but allergy quack and spam ranter Alan Hunter finally found this site and has decided to bluster at me. I’m tired and have important things to do tomorrow, so this will be short and sweet, but heartfelt. For a summary of previous episodes, please read the posts here and on WWDDTYDTY. Just don’t do it with your mouth full, as I accept no responsibility for what may become of your keyboard.

From: Alan Hunter
Subject: Your inaccurate assessment of my findings
Message Body: Dear Anonymous Anarchic-teapot 

Attacking the person instead of the argument. +1 WTF point.

I would like you to read this article, from Positive Health, which shows the medical literature I have drawn my conclusions from. 

Are you sitting comfortably, dear reader? Then let us abord the first item in this 82-point Gish Gallop: … Continue reading →

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Some chiropractors quite simply adore me!!!

“Dr” Brian Moravec is a chiropractor from the US; he has a website where he describes himself and his skills as follows:

I attended Chiropractic College and I am a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree as well as my Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College, which is the first chiropractic college in the world and the origin of our profession. I also attend continuing education seminars designed to keep doctors current with regard to clinical chiropractic, technique and nutrition...

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Utter garbage | WDDTYDTY

I have never read such a load of utter garbage as on your web site. I find it hard to imagine how anyone with half a brain would make up a web site debunking articles in a magazine largely regarding supplements or treatments that some people have found helpful for various conditions. Do you honestly [...]

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Cancel my WDDTY subscription forthwith! | WWDDTYDTY

This one is rather sad. Lucia doesn’t seem to have twigged that we are not Lynne McTaggart, or WDDTY, or anything to do with them. With touching naivety, she provides her full name and phone number which you lot are not going to get because we have standards.

It also makes it abundantly clear that, once WDDTY have got their money out of you, they don’t give any manner of fuck whether you actually get what you paid for, whatever it was. You’d think that, in these harsh times for the printed Press, a magazine with a tiny circulation would be falling over itself to cherish its subscribers, a source of regular income. You would be wrong....


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Censure is bad | WWDDTYDTY

dear wddtydty i am a reader of wddty magazine. i find it contains some very useful and interesting information although i don’t necessarily agree with everything it says. i am pleased to encounter your website as it is good to hear a wide variety of opinions on health issues and i’ll look at what you [...]

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Fan mail from "Richard Lucinford"

WWDDTYDTY gets a fair amount of feedback: some good, some bad, vast amounts of spam of course. So, after sifting through the spam, we thought it was time to share some of the feedback that lands, sometimes with a resoundingly ill-spelt thud, in our collective inbox. Enjoy!

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