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Case Dropped Against London Pharmacy Selling Sugar Pills For Malaria

A court case against a homeopathic pharmacy in London, who reportedly promote sugar pills for malaria, has been dropped.

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Review: The Amazing Meeting London

A couple of thousand (or so it seemed) geeks, rationalist, humanists, atheists, scientists, psychologists, politicians, comedians and magicians gathered together at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel over the weekend for the second annual The Amazing Meeting London (TAM London). This ragtag coalition is ostensibly a …

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Get A Quack Diploma In Whitehall Today

Come along to Whitehall today armed with your favourite quack remedies and you could be granted a diploma to practice Old Wives’ Traditional Medicine. Do gurning faces really ‘stay like that’ if the wind changes? Do you automatically say ‘bless you’ if somebody sneezes? If …

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Ticket Alert: The Amazing Meeting, London

The Amazing Meeting, TAM to its friends, is an annual gathering of rationalists, skeptics, scientists and critical thinkers. If you think that sounds a little dry, and hardly worthy of the ‘amazing’ epithet, just take a look at the lineup of speakers for this year’s …

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The Amazing Meeting, London: Skeptics In The Pub Grows Up

Don’t Minchin It. We’re still recovering after attending what must be one of the most entertaining and stimulating gatherings that ever took place in this city. The Amazing Meeting (TAM) lived up to its name with acts such as Tim Minchin, Ben Goldacre, Adam Savage …

The world's top two Skeptics: Phil Plait and James Randi, in the Rugby Tavern, Bloomsbury, last year. Image by M@

The Amazing Meeting Comes To London

The world’s top two Skeptics: Phil Plait and James Randi, in the Rugby Tavern, Bloomsbury, last year. Image by M@ Ever shout at the TV when someone takes homeopathy seriously? Want to throttle those parents who reject the MMR vaccine and thereby help spread measles? …