Twitter-Addicted Scourge of Scientific Quackery

From The Guardian UK:

Colquhoun’s guide is a Devil’s Dictionary of all things holistic: “Herbal medicine: giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety… Reflexology: plain old foot massage, overlaid with utter nonsense about non-existent connections between your feet and your thyroid gland… Spiritual healing: tea and sympathy, accompanied by arm-waving… Kinesiology, iridology, vega test, etc: various forms of fraud, designed to sell you cures that don’t work, for problems you haven’t got.” And so on.

I like this guy a lot.1 It’s still hard for me to believe the significant percentage of adults that still believe in magic. I guess it’s less of a belief and more of an intellectual laziness.

  1. If this offends you, I suggest you are reading the wrong website. Grab your tinfoil hat and move along. ↩︎