Last night (19th March, 2011) was ThinkCon, an evening of skeptical goodness. The event was titled: “Can You Make A Difference?” and the speakers all gave their experiences about how they have made a difference. The evening was chaired by Gia Milinovich and the speakers were: Me. I was the first person to speak. I …
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Remission
For the last time, before I get any more stupid comments suggesting some ridiculous quacky cure… Unless you are a gastroenterologist/immunologist or some expert on Crohn’s, I don’t care what cured your friend when you suggested it to them, I will not use your cure/treatment. This includes: Squatting Herbs Unproven treatments Cutting out dairy Actually, …
Ambiguity over alternative medicine funding in Wales
On the 1st of December 2010, I sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all seven of the Local Health Boards in Wales; Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Cwm Taf Local Health Board Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board Hywel Dda Local Health Board Powys Teaching Local Health Board Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board Abertawe …
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Consumers in Cardiff stage homeopathic ‘overdose’
Consumer rights activists across Cardiff have today announced their intention to take a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ next month, as part of a major global protest against the alternative remedies. Protesters in Cardiff will swallow entire bottles of homeopathic pills on February 5th 2011, in a bid to raise public awareness of the fact that homeopathic …
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Cardiff Skeptics Homeopathy Event
Due to being the one to suggest it, and Dean and Alice being away on the weekend planned, I am organising a Cardiff Skeptics homeopathy event! Huzzah! If it all goes wrong though, blame them though for letting a kid run the show 😉 Honestly though, I’m planning for the event to go down on …
MMS Seminars
I’ve received a heads up from Jim’s newsletter that he will be holding another seminar on MMS very soon. Marianne and I have discussed his seminars on Super-Duper Woo-Fighting Duo (with capes!) before  Basically, to sum them up though, Jim is in the Dominican Republic. This has been verified a number of times including …
Biology modules
So, I did two of my biology exams today. B1 exam was fantastic. It even had a question about a drug trial comparing simvastatin, pravastatin and placebo. As I read through it though, I noticed one possible flaw in the study – it was only single blind. Also, a flaw in the question – it …
Television
So, The One Show is not the only program I have appeared on. Viewable here: There are a few, so here is the first – BAMZOOKi! Laugh if you will, I was young(er)! When we were there, the flat image was projected onto the board, with the 3D being added in real time. Also, the …
A Poem about Calcium Carbonate
As promised on Twitter, here is my calcium carbonate poem. This was not a task for English, but for chemistry instead. This might prove to some that I am not an airhead! 😉 Tums Calcium carbonate 500mgs Plus glucose, fruit flavours and a couple of Es. Packed into round tablets, they look quite a treat. …
Sense about Science fundraiser
Hello everyone! As I am approaching my 20,000th tweet, I decided it would be a good idea to try and raise some money for Sense about Science! The basics are, you bid. If you win, then I will tweet almost whatever you like – to promote it, advertise it or just have a funny tweet …