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What is cupping and does it work BBC News
A chiropractor demonstrates cupping, and makes all sorts of nonsensical and inaccurate statements. If course there isn't the slightest reason to think that this desperately implausible treatment has any benefits at all. DC tries to inject some realism.
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David Colquhoun on cough medicines
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This short interview was made by 7 Wonder for the BBC, but never used. You can find a lot more at www.dcscience.net/2012/11/20/some-medicines-that-dont-work-why-doesnt-the-mhra-tell-us-honestly/ And on honey, at www.dcscience.net/2007/12/05/why-honey-isnt-a-wonder-cure/
Debate about the Saatchi Bill on RT TV (UK)
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Debate about Lord Saatchi's Bill which would allow allow uncontrolled testing of treatments on any patient. It is not limited to cancer, nor to terminally ill patients (though some amendments, yet to be accepted, might change that). This sort of uncontrolled experimentation is likely to impede advances in treatment rather than to help it. And the vagueness of the wording of the bill could lead ...
Cancer Drug Fund is a "political stunt" (Newsnight 27 Aug 2014)
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Clip from BBC Newsnight, 27 August 2014 Laura Kuenssberg hosts discussion with Karol Sikora and David Colquhoun about the cancer drug fund, DC said "it is a political stunt in response to shroud-waving by big pharma".
How UK taught torture methods to Brazilian military junta. Shameful.
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A clip from the BBC Newsnight programme, 29 May 2014. The brutality revealed at Abu Ghraib was a turning point for me. But it turns out that such uncivilised behaviour was not restricted to the USA. The military coup in Brazil in 1964 was supported by both UK and USA. It is now clear that the UK taught some of the torture methods used in Northern Ireland to the Brazilian junta. They called it t...
Quackery on Channel 4 News 21 September 2007
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This was recorded soon after an article in Nature, on degrees in anti-science. It is now out of date. The Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital was cloned soon after the broadcast . It's now clear that acupuncture is a theatrical placebo. Near the end of the video, Bruce McCallum, who works at the Gerard Kite Acupuncture Clinic, says that evidence for acupuncture must be produced. In fact the pa...
Homeopaths give lethal advice about malaria 2006
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Malaria advice risks lives, A classic sting organised by Sense about Science and broadcast by BBC Newsnight on 13 July 2006. The Nelsons adviser told the researcher that the homeopathic compounds would protect her. "They make it so your energy doesn't have a malaria-shaped hole in it so the malarial mosquitos won't come along and fill that in." Even the Queen's homeopathic physician, Peter Fish...
Sara Eames vs DC on homeopathy
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BBC World News TV, 6 August 2013. This interview followed the announcement by health minister that he didn't support homeopathy. despite previous evidence to the contrary.. Eames' commented "We think the explanation for homeopathy comes from physics not from chemistry, so the molecules are less important" That's nothing short of surreal.
BBC South West on the evils of homeopathic "vaccines"
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Sam Smith presents an investigation of homeopathic "vaccines" (14th January 2013, BBC South West, Inside Out). The pills contain nothing whatsoever, but are promoted for serious infections like whooping cough and even meningitis. Of course they don't work, and if a child dies because if their use, that should constitute manslaughter. As far back as 2006, homeopaths were caught out recommending ...
Steiner schools. An Investigation by BBC South West
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Clip from the BBC South West programme, Inside Out. It concerns the controversy surrounding the state funding of a Steiner School in Frome, Somerset
Clinical trials in India
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BBC Newsnight investigation 31 October 2012 See also ruclips.net/video/vSHy3tPg2uo/видео.html
Cleaners at Hilton Waldorf outsourced to Jani-King. Paid peanuts.
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This was part of the BBC2 Newsnight, broadcast on 26 September 2012: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19746297 "The outsourcing of cleaning contracts at a top London hotel meant migrant workers were paid as little as £15 for an eight-hour shift during the Olympic Games"
George Lewith and David Colquhoun on Channel 4 News
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This is a debate about whether acupuncture and back pain. it followed one of NICE's few big mistakes, For details see www.dcscience.net/?p=1516 and www.dcscience.net/?p=1542 Captions were added by IllegalCombatAnt
David Colquhoun talks to Russian TV Station, NTV, about quackery
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This is unedited Interview: final will be dubbed into Russian. It was filmed at home, a few days after DC left hospital. A brief clip from the interview was transmitted, in Russian, at www.ntv.ru/novosti/271261/
Integrative baloney @ Yale
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This movie shows some clips from a 3 hour symposium on "integrative medicine" that was held at Yale University. "integrative" is the current euphemism for "quack". The clips show very clearly that Dr Katz doesn't give a damn about evidence and will happily prescribe treatments for which there is no evidence at all that they work. It is a tragedy for US medicine that this sort of stuff is tolera...
Dishonest labelling of herbal medicines Part 2
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Dishonest labelling of herbal medicines Part 2
Dishonest labelling of herbal medicines Part 1
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Dishonest labelling of herbal medicines Part 1
New herbal medicine regulations are useless
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New herbal medicine regulations are useless
Prof Nicola Miller vs Damien Hinds MP on the bonfire of the humanities
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Prof Nicola Miller vs Damien Hinds MP on the bonfire of the humanities
Homeopath, Peter Fisher, agrees that degrees in homeopathy are not justified
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Homeopath, Peter Fisher, agrees that degrees in homeopathy are not justified
Herbal medicine should not have government endorsement
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Herbal medicine should not have government endorsement
Peter fisher is great homeopath
Dr Sceptic...why can't we comment on the video on cupping? I like to say something on the lines about pharma against alternative healing! So there won't be any positive data!! Why can't we comment?
Because Dr. Sceptic is not really a sceptic after all… they are afraid of having their precious “modern science” beliefs shattered.
And just to say "pharma is against alternative healing" is a bs statements as well. If every study shows that there is nor "real" benefit, then why in the world should the "pharma" industry support the bs methods. While some lobbies are interested in generating money of bs Medicine like homeopathic Treatments, the WHO still relies on study and scientific work.
they are Supporting chemical poisoness products and medicines with crucial animals abuse where they test chemicals poison on animals to see if no reaction happens soon , so they can sell it to people, we all know in long run , alot of health damage well occur. Don't even think of comparing herbal medicines with the trash poisoness ingredients in the chemicals products
Funny I've read the reptilian queen is a frequent user of homeopathic..as a medical professional of 3 decades, I only found homeopathic 6 yrs ago, and they have been a staple in my cabinet..they mention Arnica and I can voice yes it does lessen bruising after shutting my hand in a car door I quickly took Arnica and within minutes the throbbing diminished considerably, amongst the other quick acting remedies I've used for shingles, chickenpox,burns,ear and tooth aches, bug bites and more. ...here it is 2022 and we still don't have any studies, makes me sick, I can only conclude that there is no money in homeopathic while billions are made from big pharmaceutical. ...Homeopathic are so much safer, we've used homeopathic nosodes for immunization that work with out a vaccine injury...
Apka no do rheumatic fevers hai to
Long Live OWT
9:40 lets try that drug on him or his wife
I live exactly at this place in india... And i am looking for cancer advanced stage clinical trial
I notice you disabled all comments in all your videos, which does not allow viewers to voice their own public statement as you have done by form of your authority as a sworn in Doctor to the hippocratic oath. Allopathic medicine came after Original medicine which has withstood time;therefore proving it's own credibility. Allopathic care has its place for emergency only and for those who wish to become a part of the Doctor 'practice' and treat symptoms rather than the cause. Awareness would be a detriment to allopathic care because it would kill the medical industry since people would be healthy. What you practice is sick care and preach against true healthcare aka Original medicine which offers deep rooted fixes by lifestyle change from a holistic collaborative perspective. The pharmaceutical industry is necessary for extreme conditions such as emergency, but please live up to your oath and recognize that allopathic medicine is NOT the answer but a quick remedy only.
not all are scam
And lIke DrSceptic's other videos I'm sure he'll disable the comments on this video too as soon as he sees it opposing his views. There's a reason BBC didn't use it... This guy talks like he's in his last stage of dementia. Go to the light Mr. Colquhoun.
Well said 👏👏👏
Any time this guy opens his mouth, he's spewing some bull about how some medicine/therapy "doesn't work" He simply an old fart that, regardless of new information, will just continue to stick with their own beliefs. Pharmacology will be better when he's dead.
On the subject of Biodynamic" farming: if you want to try to understand how this works explained scientifically watch this Around the 1 hour mark ruclips.net/video/jzpKm9QeLDo/видео.html
It's funny but it's not too. A once great University partnership destroyed through short sighted greed and poor decision making.
I presume that defamatory comment refers to me, If you think that I favour the pharmaceutical industry you are dead wrong. Sadly Big Pharma uses exactly the same tricks as the (huge) alternative medicine industry to sell treatments that only too often make exaggerated clams. The main difference is that essentially no alternative treatments work -if they did they would be called medicine not alternative. And at least some of Big Pharma's products work rather well -would you refuse a local anesthetic at the dentist because it was invented and sold by big pharma? The fact is that is than nothing works well for back pain. Analgesic drugs don't and neither does acupuncture. It's an unsolved problem, like many others in medicine. When you think about it, that's obvious. If there were a good treatment then low back pain would not be the huge problem that it still is. Incidentally, this video is quite old. Since it appeared NICE has re-assessed the guidance for low back pain, It now says "Do not offer acupuncture".
Does she actually think people would believe this bullshit!!!😂😂
She is an absolute idiot and should never have been granted a license to practice medicine.
But some do taste good and feel soothing for a few minutes :-) I think the whisky suggestion is more attractive - thanks DC and SB.
I presume that John refuses to have a local anesthetic and the dentist. And would refuse penicillin if he got pneumonia. Actually this video needs to be updated because the government recently declined to give the herbalists the recognition that they crave, on the very reasonable grounds that there is no reason to think that their concoctions work See www.dcscience.net/2015/03/30/herbs-get-the-push-no-statutory-regulation-for-western-herbalists-or-traditional-chinese-medicine/
That is what dogmatic materialistic science and their money worshipping backers want you to believe. Materialism is based on antiquated Aristotelian Logic. These arrogant dogmatists can't explain why an airtight container of seeds on a balance scale when the moon is waning weigh more as the moon gets full. Where does the extra mass come from? Why do you get your best crop of sunflower plants when the seeds are planted when the sun is in Leo. With an open mind we know that the mineral is dead and the plant lives because the plant has a life force which obeys the laws of projective geometry, life forces coming from a periphery and intersecting and giving life to everything living. The Father God has thought all thoughts for eternity, Christ has given Life to these thoughts through Love and the Holy Spirit, through her Wisdom has given form to the Life. The four Gospels contain the most valuable knowledge obtainable concerning the occultism of healing. There is no document preserved to man from the past which has more of the mysteries of occult healing than the Gospels. Now the Bible as a whole consists of three parts : for the Revelation of St. John is as clearly distinct from the Gospels, as they are from the books of the Old Testament, As the Old Testament depicts the the preparation in earthly history for the Christ-event, and the Gospels the event itself, so the Apocalypse depicts the consequences resulting from that event. But the Apocalypse contains no history of the generations, such as the Old Testament contains, nor the delineation of the life and suffering of any single being, such as the Gospels give us. The Apocalypse depicts future human and cosmic events : it shows the cosmic results of the Incarnation of Christ. These results are not only of a spiritual and moral kind ; they partake of the character of Nature- happenings. The Apocalypse shows what influence spiritual and moral impulses will exercise in time to come upon the forces of Nature. Alterations in the strata of the Earth's interior and in the etheric strata round the Earth, are accurately described in the Revelation of St. John as effects of moral causes The cosmic drama of the Apocalypse deals not only with the struggle which concerns Mankind, but also with the struggle which concerns Nature. It points to facts lying outside the regions of eugenic and hygienic occultism : for the effect of the humanly spiritual on the external Nature-forces is the theme of mechanical occultism. And the Apocalypse is the only authoritative document which preserves to man the knowledge contained in mechanical occultism.
Actually allopathic dead chemicals have never cured the cause of any disease, but only took away the symptom. Based on antiquated Aristotelian logic and the dogmatic myth of materialism and the greed of the learned ignoramus scientists.
The body language of a liar - see the prof squirm i his seat.
+Janine Zimardo Yeh - he's squirming because of the bullshit being talked by the homeopath and he's trying not to utter a bunch of expletives! I'm impressed with how mild-mannered this professor is compared to how _I_ might deal with a bullshitter like the homeopath.
Did you even understand what you were typing? Learn some stuff and do a little research before commenting such bullshit. She is a trained GP and a professional Homeopathic physician. A person doesn't just get invited to BBC to talk 'bullshit'!!
Sai Vivek Yeh. I'm a psychologist by training: we did NVC back in fucking first year, you fucking imbecile. Also - we studied scientific fuckign method and how we tell what works and what doesn't. And that homeopathy shite DOESN'T FUCKING WORK, you stupid arse.
You seem to have a great deal more faith in "trained GP£ than I have. But then I have taught a lot of medical students. And "professional homeopathic" is an oxymoron. There is nothing more unprofessional than failing to treat serious conditions.
+David Andrews Ooooohhh..... 'NVC'?? Hmmmm.... And you? Haha... Good going.... It really shows! Scientific method? Morons like you shouldn't even speak about things like this.... It's making me nauseous.😂 Please stop It's because of people like you that great systems like these aren't getting proper awareness.
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Dr. Richard Horton, chief editor of prestigious peer reviewed medical journal The Lancet said recently "The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness." Dr. Marcia Angell, editor of the New England Medical Journal also said "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine". Truth is a slippery concept. It is those self appointed gatekeepers most sure they are in possession of it that are the ones to be most skeptical of.
Wang Class anyone?
TruffyBarkhamFitzroy I very much fear that you are misled. Oils smell nice, but that's it. There isn't the slightest reason to think that they have any therapeutic value
Hi, glad you've put up the videos on Steiner-based quackery but it's a shame you've disabled the comments on them. It's my experience that most Steiner supporters don't know about most of Steiner's truly bizarre pronouncements - about the existence of gnomes etc and the many factually inaccurate statements he made. It would be great to be able to point these out to believers.
His face when she brought up the Bristol study, priceless!!!
JANI KING IS WORSE THAN SLAVERY. They take your money, your time, your health, your peace of mind and leave you with broom and toilet brush. Just remember that they get paid before you do 23% off the gross pay , the contracts are in JANI KING 'S NAME not yours. Many Attorney Generals in the U.S.A fought against JANI KING and won.
LOL Yea, I actually just meant to satirize Eames' statement ;)
@coastog. What on earth is that comment meant to mean. As it stands it means precisely nothing. Please explain yourself.
It's not so much about physics and chemistry... it's more about how stuff interacts
I agree, that comment about separating physics and chemistry is sub GCSE - how on earth did she pass medical exams!?
Unbelievable nonsenee from Eames.
"We think the explanation for homeopathy comes from physics not from chemistry, so the molecules are less important" -- Sarah Eames is a trained GP, as well as a homeopath - how did she pass her various medical exams if she can't understand why her above statement is complete and utter hogwash.
We are now in a period of time where mainstream medicine is the major player in treatment of disease and yet many diseases eg cancers, autism, alzheimers are increasing at an incredible rate. It seems that modern medical practice is completely incapable of preventing these diseases and it's success rate at curing is somewhat questionable also. Regardless, we are all given inalienable rights as humans so what business is it of anyone else if I decide to treat myself with herbs or otherwise?
gp's arent trained in the scientific method
"homeopathy" Stop listening there.
I can agree with @lovepizzaforever07 that money is the root of much evil. The alt med industry is worth about $60 billion pa. That's quite enough to make the industry exaggerate what their products can achieve. The methods used by the alternative industry to deceive people are remarkably similar to those used by Big Pharma. The main difference is that at least some of the products of Big Pharma actually work. Or do you refuse to have a local anesthetic at the dentist?
@lovepizzaforever07 You say "herbs truly cure diseases". Sadly this is simply not true. Would that it were so easy. You don't have to believe me. Just look at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine "Herbs at a glance" (see description) There is little reason to believe that herbs even ameliorate symptoms of any disease, never mind cure them.
Most herbal medicines on sale in the high street are a bloody scam but the government doesn't care about people being scammed. As long as they do no harm, companies can carry on producing them and ripping people off. I'd love to know how many people have, like me, tried this or that "remedy" just the once and never bothered again. Hundreds of thousands, I reckon. As long they're on sale they can always rely on people buying them to try and that's good for profits, which is all that matters.
I didn't say that herbs have no effects, Some are quite toxic. I said that there is no condition for which herbs are the first choice of treatment. In the UK there isn't a single herbal preparation that has full marketing authorisation from the MHRA. Their licensing depends only on demonstrating their safety. no evidence that they work needs to be presented.
funny how you make such a broad statement about herbs not working *smokes nicotine, inhibits MAOB*
funny. I liked the end at about 12:47. Just rolling the camera was for "emotional" shots, likely to be spliced into the final edited video for effect.
That presumably means that juanja005 is an illiberal misogynist theologian. Well plenty pf them around. That's why nobody takes religion seriously these days (well apart from the bible belt, but they are stuck in the dark ages).
Yay DC.
I wish they had clearly defined what "traditional use" means...
4:35 when he laughs in her face lmao. Take that bitch!!
Thanks to Capricious (and several other commenters) for illustrating to the world exactly why herbalists can't be trusted. His remark is the sort of thing that passes for reason in their alternative world.