Quackery – one step forwards, two steps back
Francis Sedgemore, Monday 22 February 2010
1. Forward…
British MPs call for public funding of homeopathy to be withdrawn.
2. Back…
Andreas Moritz – “a medical intuitive; a practitioner of Ayurveda, iridology, shiatsu, and vibrational medicine” (i.e., a new-age wanker) who believes that cancer “does not kill a person afflicted with it!”, and makes part of his living from selling various snake-oil concoctions – is out to silence critical bloggers and scientists.
Andreas Moritz is a very stupid man.
Stir the mixture well
Lest it prove inferior,
Then put half a drop
Into Lake Superior.Every other day
Take a drop in water,
You’ll be better soon
Or at least you oughter.
William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) was a witty man.
Feed the writer! 
Monday 22 February 2010 at 21:33 UTC
What a coincidence that you should write about homoeopathy. Today John came home from the pharmacy with the latest issue of “Apotheken-Rundschau” – the glossy freeby given out in German pharmacies as some kind of faux self-help/auto-information manual – and what is the title story? “Sanfte Medizin Homöopathie.” Inside about 10 pages of people whose forever painful wisdom teeth and excruciating bunions had vanished miraculously after they popped a couple of globuli, entwined with pseudo-scientific commentary by enthusiastic “doctors”.
Andreas Moritz’s cosmetic surgeon sucks, btw.
Monday 22 February 2010 at 21:35 UTC
Sucks what?
Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 06:21 UTC
Probably water pills…
Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 10:52 UTC
That sounds like a whole new state of matter brought about with the aid of morphic resonance induced by Moritz’s om-chanting and the sound of tinkling cash registers.
Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 16:20 UTC
Oh boy… that’s almost unbelievable. Vibrational medicine, though, made me believe the story. Something tangible, at least. I have just the thing for the good doctor to use on self:
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/atlascopco_drill.jpg
Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 16:26 UTC
He ain’t no doctor, at least outside of Maine.