Leaving the Land of Woo
A rational, sceptical look at the ideas of alternative medicine, food, religion, and the paranormal
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Good books from Amazon:
Leaving the Land of Woo
The God Delusion - Dawkins
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Dennett
Irrationality - Sutherland
Links:
blogcritics.org
My blogcritics articles
My HubPages articles
My Associated Content articles
RichardDawkins.net
Synogenes.com
National Secular Society
Skeptic Friends
UK Skeptics
British Humanist Association
Science-based medicine blog
Respectful Insolence blog
BBC Atheist site
Quackwatch
National Council Against Health Fraud
Useful sources:
PubMed Central
Cochrane Collaboration
Cochrane Library
Bandolier
Public Health Library NY
BioMed Central Journals
Physics Research
Public Library of Science
NICE Publication
Bob Lloyd has studied in four universities and has degrees in Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science. After a long career in publishing, teaching, and software engineering, he is now retired and lives in Andalucia in the South of Spain with his wife and rather ancient cat.
Latest additions
- Pseudoscience creeping into academic journals
- Vaccine scares and alt-med Woo
- Faith Healing creeps into medical journal
- Chiropractors regularly make false claims
- Prince's alt-med accountant jailed
- Acupuncture is placebo
- Excellent videos from Qualiasoup
- eBook Version now free to download
- Economic Woo - Lib-Con Style
- ITEC accreditation confusion
- ITEC removes accrediation claim
- Reiki diploma - is anyone responsible?
- Reiki Diplomas - who checks the content?
- Food Woo - sample chapter
- Quackademia rules
- Review on Blogcritics.org
- Global warming - can anyone really doubt it?
- Climate Change Conspiracy Theories
- Review on Skeptic Friends
- Strategy for Effective Skeptics
- CAM degrees, a university con job
- Contents List
- Water - the limit of faith?
- Creationism is not a theory, it's a story
- As we as allergic as we claim?
- How does the placebo effect work?
- Theories, descriptions and stories
- Take a deep breath!
- Reiki - pyramid selling energy
- Magnet Woo and Arthritis
- Simon Singh wins right to appeal
- Chiropractors vs Simon Singh
- Religion is different, isn't it?
- Candles in ears...
- Tragic death from faith healing
- Let's hear it for the crystals
- Reiki for Pets
- Probiotic or idiotic?
- Homeopathy claims for AIDS and malaria!
- ISBN number in under a week...
- Sample extract from ch 1
- If you ever thought Woo was harmless...
- No eBook version?
- Who is the audience?
