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Archive for January, 2010

Tabloid news coverage of the 10:23 campaign has been surprisingly extensive, with most of the nationals drawing attention to the campaign. Even the Daily Mail, the UK’s bastion of middle class unfounded fear showed at interest. However, they did manage to say that the NHS spends £4 BILLION on homeopathy per year, rather than the more accurate £4 million (read it here).

The Mail’s commenting system is very interesting too, with a mix of comments in support of and against homeopathy. I’ve met many who say their pro-science comments have been rejected, but I got mine through! Please read the article, and vote up my comment, if only to inflate my ego!

At 10:23am on January 30th 2010, people from all over the country protested against the high street chemist Boots selling homeopathic preparations. Hundreds of skeptics in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Brighton, Leicester, Southampton and Oxford each downed 84 pillules of 30C homeopathic preparations with no ill effect, showing that there is nothing in it.

I was fortunate enough to be involved in the Liverpool event. We had a fantastic day for it, and all were in high spirits. The event itself was over after thirty second, but the video and photographic records should stand to show the uselessness of homeopathy. After that we had an improvised ‘Skeptics in the Pub’, and my photos can be seen at the Merseyside Skeptics Society Facebook page.

I’ll have more on homeopathy in the next few days, including a video that Rachel Waller and Helen Wynne were kind enough to film for me.

Homeopathy, THERE’S NOTHING IN IT!