The role of entrepreneurial alertness in sifting out quackery
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: charlatans, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, market selection, quackery
A fantastic redeeming feature of homeopathy
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: brand names, fisheries economics, homeopathy, organic agriculture, organic farming, product certification, quackery, Quacks
Organic certification is currently an issue in New Zealand at the behest of the Green Party:
Green Party spokesman for agriculture Steffan Browning has called on the Government to safeguard the value of the term "organic". For him, waiting until 2017 to look at the issue was "simply unacceptable".
Companies can become "certified organic", and by doing this it means they meet an agreed international standard during production, processing, and selling their products.
A certified organic company’s food is free of additives, and has not relied on chemicals during growth.
But certification isn’t compulsory – and there is no legal requirement for claims of uncertified organic produce to be genuine, Browning said.
via EU’s crazy homeopathy cure for Norway fish – The Local.
The one and the same Green Party spokesman Steffan Browning last year called for homeopathic remedies to be used against Ebola!
I wonder which manifestation of quackery will win out: Organic farming or homeopathy? It’ll be fun to watch with glee.
Moral panic compared: allergies versus vaccination
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics Tags: Allergies, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, cranks, Left-wing hypocrisy, meddlesome preferences, quackery, Quacks
The FDA is holding a public hearing today on regulating homeopathic remedies
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: homoeopathy, quackery
What is the essence of alternative medicine
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: alternative medicine, quackery
The red flags of quackery
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theorists, political psychology, quackery
How toxic are these?
04 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, quackery
RT Save the children, stop supporting Greenpeace
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Save the kids, stop supporting @Greenpeace!
#GoldenRice goldenrice.org/Content3-Why/w… http://t.co/5gBWNFJswA—
Urs Bolt (@UrsBolt) December 08, 2014
A disturbing number of people think alternative medicines are effective
22 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: quackery
Many believe alternative medicines are effective (but hardly anyone is confident in astrology) y-g.co/1Gqvvds http://t.co/yAn1QH66B0—
(@YouGov) March 06, 2015
When left-handedness was a handicap
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Whatever happened to progressivism?
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, Leftover Left, quackery
Subway has been corrupted by Big DHMO
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: quackery
What is in the homoeopathic flu pills
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: homoeopathy, quackery
The decline of homeopathy on the NHS – The Nightingale Collaboration
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: homoeopathy, National Health Service, quackery
Even though homeopathy is to some extent tolerated within the NHS and despite there being three homeopathic ‘hospitals’, it is clear that it is in decline. We know that these hospitals have been branching out into other areas and have even been re-branding themselves to move away from their reliance on homeopathy.
But just because it’s been a part of the NHS since 1948 does not mean that homeopathy is endorsed by the NHS or the Government as being an effective treatment.
via The decline of homeopathy on the NHS – The Nightingale Collaboration.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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