Tag "Alternative Medicine"
Colour Therapy
Categories: Skepticism
For some of us who have attended the regular Skeptical Activism meetings
in Wellington, Colour Therapy Manukau 's egregious claims about colour therapy such as "incurable means curable from within" and "synthetic fibres have a frequency that is detrimental to our health and well being" are a familiar sight. Several of us have cut our teeth on their website, making Advertising Standards Authority complaints about lists of diseases that colour can therapy can supposedly cure, and pseudo-scientific claims about how coloured wool in a metal bowl can help you. These days, when you browse their website, instead of seeing those kinds of claims you read the following: 2 min read, 235 words. Continue Reading...
Crystal Healing that works?
Categories: Skepticism
In one of our Facebook groups this week there was a recent discussion started by Donald Pettitt about his visit to a "crystal healer" to help with issues he’s been having with his balance:
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Reiki is here to save us all
Categories: Skepticism
Or at least that’s what NewsHub would have us believe, with an article published
on Tuesday about the benefits of Reiki, an energy healing technique that involves the practitioner manipulating your "energy field" by waving their hands around your body. 4 min read, 733 words. Continue Reading...
Homeopathic Hippo Sweat Sun Block
Categories: Skepticism
Honestly, I don’t think I could make up something this daft if I tried. Thanks to an astute member of the NZ Skeptics Facebook group, I now know about a New Zealand company - Hippo Health - who are marketing a fascinating sun block for animals.
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Essential Oils may not be so essential after all
Categories: Skepticism
Herbs for weight loss don’t work
Categories: Skepticism
A recent major report
into herbs and supplements for weight loss has concluded that they don’t work, and that not enough is known about their safety. Erica Bessell, the lead author from the University of Sydney, points out that in many countries no evidence is needed that these products actually work, and of course many companies are happy to exploit that failing and sell a wide variety of unproven products to buyers who hope for a simple solution to the hard problem of controlling their weight. 3 min read, 479 words. Continue Reading...
How not to handle a COVID outbreak
Categories: Skepticism
Obviously India has been through the wringer recently with a huge increase in the number of COVID cases, and deaths, in the country. Thankfully the number of active cases is dropping, but at its peak around four and a half thousand people were dying per day, and there have been over three hundred and eighty thousand reported deaths so far - although many experts fear the real total is likely to be much higher.
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Tin Foil Treatments
Categories: Skepticism
I was sent a funny article
the other day about the benefits of aluminium foil on a website called Tips and Tricks. The website appears to be a prolific source of clickbait - articles with catchy titles that are designed to suck you in and get you to click the link to read more, so that the company can take you away from social media sites and onto their website to show you adverts and make money. 5 min read, 839 words. Continue Reading...
Black Oxygen Organics - the new panacea
Categories: Skepticism
Black Oxygen Organics
is a recent craze in alternative medicine. Many people swear by it, saying that it can treat all sorts of conditions - from heart issues and ADHD to COVID and cancer. 5 min read, 841 words. Continue Reading...