Jul 13 2015
This is the podcast of the 2015 European Skeptics Conference – the regular conference of The European Council of Skeptical Organisations, taking place in London on 11-13 September, 2015. Today Marsh is speaking with film-maker and director of the Sleep Paralysis Project, Carla Mackinnon. Tickets for the conference are available at: http://euroscepticscon.org/. Find out how to donate …
Jul 10 2015
This is the podcast of the 2015 European Skeptics Conference – the regular conference of The European Council of Skeptical Organisations, taking place in London on 11-13 September, 2015. Marsh speaks with Catherine de Jong – anaesthetist, chair of the Dutch Society Against Quackery and board member of ECSO. Tickets for the conference are available at: …
Jul 07 2015
One of the big strengths of the skeptical community is the breadth of talents, backgrounds, skills and passions we encompass. Here at the Good Thinking Society we’d love to encourage more and more people to get skeptically active, and to use their skills to help advance skeptical causes. There’s so much energy and enthusiasm out there, …
Jul 06 2015
This is the podcast of the 2015 European Skeptics Conference – the regular conference of The European Council of Skeptical Organisations, taking place in London on 11-13 September, 2015. Today Marsh is joined physicist, broadcaster and TV presenter, Jim Al-Khalili. Tickets for the conference are available at: http://euroscepticscon.org/. Find out how to donate to support the Good Thinking …
Jul 06 2015
Update on our campaign challenging NHS homeopathy; ABSW blog prize winner announced; and the launch of a new podcast series!
Jun 26 2015
In our campaigning against the funding of homeopathy on the NHS, we have highlighted that the total annual spend is ‘between £3m and £5m per year’. Some people may have a particular interest in how we came to this estimate – for those people, full details of our research and calculations are below. By way of …
Jun 26 2015
The Association of British Science Writers Awards took place last night, including the annual Good Thinking Society award for Best Science Blog. We would like to extend our congratulations to the 2015 winner: Kat Day for her blog The Chronicle Flask. Well done, Kat, for a very well-deserved win. These awards are not only a chance to …
Jun 24 2015
Following the recent announcement from Bristol Homeopathic Hospital that it will cease offering homeopathic remedies, another NHS Clinical Commissioning Group has confirmed to us that they will no longer waste money on this disproven treatment. Dorset CCG – who spent £8,000 on homeopathy in 2013/14 and whose equivalent bodies spent £45,000 per year from 2006-2010 …
Jun 17 2015
As we highlighted in our warning last week, the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing seminar took place last weekend in Farnham, Surrey at an undisclosed location. This organisation promotes ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ – a form of industrial bleach – as a treatment for a wide range of health conditions including cancer, malaria and …
Jun 15 2015
This weekend the Sunday Times ran coverage of some of our work investigating various alleged alternative food allergy and intolerance tests, including one test taking place in a Nutricentre store. Nutricentre are the health food chain owned by Tesco – regular followers of our work will recall that our investigation last year uncovered all manner of …
