(Coverage on the BBC of our NHS Homeopathy campaign) A major centre of homeopathy will no longer be able to spend NHS money on the controversial practice. The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine – formerly the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital – will stop providing NHS-funded homeopathic remedies in April.
Category: Projects
Mar 13 2018
NHS stops funding for homeopathy at UK’s largest alternative medicine hospital (Independent)
(Coverage in the Independent of our NHS Homeopathy campaign) A major taxpayer-funded centre for homeopathic, herbal and alternative medicines will no longer be providing these remedies on the NHS after health service chiefs said homeopathy was “at best, a placebo”.
Jan 23 2018
Charity criticises Kingston ‘alternative medicine’ practitioner over methods (SW Londoner)
A Surbiton-based alternative medicine practitioner has been labelled ‘irresponsible’ by an anti-pseudoscience charity for offering treatments ‘without good evidence’ for conditions including cancer. Caroline Cai, Contemporary Chinese Therapy owner, offers alternative medicine therapies such as acupuncture, deep-tissue massages, moxibustion, cupping and herbs to help with an array of conditions ranging from major illnesses to minor …
Jan 18 2018
Yuji Okitani competes in Grand Final of Who Wants to Be a Mathematician
Yuji Okitani, the winner of our UK Who Wants to Be a Mathematician competition, competed in the international Grand Final in the US last Saturday, finishing a very respectable third place in his semi final. The competition, which is run by the American Mathematical Society and took place live at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings …
Jan 17 2018
The Parallel Project is back
We know that lots of our followers and supporters signed up for the pilot of our Parallel maths project back in the summer, and received our weekly maths puzzles. If you were one of them, hopefully you found our Parallelogram problem sheets and videos fun and interesting. We’re pleased to say that after the successful …
Jan 16 2018
Cancer and alternative therapies
Good Thinking are extremely concerned about fundraising appeals designed to raise money for seriously ill people to receive alternative therapies that are not considered mainstream and are typically not backed by robust evidence. Below, we look at many of the therapies we’ve seen cited in such fundraisers (particularly for cancer patients), assess the evidence for …
Jan 09 2018
Test yourself against our ‘Who Wants to Be a Mathematician’ questions
Last November, we hosted the final of the UK’s Who Wants to Be a Mathematician competition, which was won by Yuji Okitani from Tapton School in Sheffield. Yuji will be competing in the grand final this weekend, against the best young mathematicians in the US and Canada. While we wish Yuji the best of luck …
Nov 30 2017
NHS England calls for homeopathy to be blacklisted; Enfield CCG ends homeopathy funding
Earlier today, NHS England announced recommendations that GPs should no longer prescribe homeopathic treatments or herbal remedies, and called on the Secretary of State for Health to put both on the NHS Blacklist, which would prevent any NHS funds being spent on prescribing either treatment. The announcement came after NHS England’s consultation on “Items which …
Nov 24 2017
Yuji Okitani wins UK ‘Who Wants to Be a Mathematician’ Final
Yuji Okitani from Tapton School in Sheffield was today crowned the 2017 UK winner of Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, our annual search for the country’s top young mathematical mind. Yuji competed in the final earlier today, alongside fellow finalists Connie Bambridge-Sutton from Reigate Grammar School, Surrey, Dougie Dolleymore from King Edwards School, Birmingham, …
Nov 02 2017
Chiropractor raises concerns about physiotherapy advertisers, but physios appear to be much more evidence based than chiropractors
We regularly monitor chiropractic and osteopathy websites and urge regulators to act against practitioners making misleading claims. Should we be looking at physiotherapy too? A chiropractor emailed us recently explaining that he thinks our work should be across the board for manual therapists. He also highlighted five physiotherapy websites, all of which were making misleading …
