Homeopathy Challenge Update
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The JREF's challenge to homeopathy manufacturers and retailers this month drew media attention across the U.S. and around the world. Below is a sample of stories on the video statement.
If you haven't yet signed our petition to CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid, take a moment to sign it now. Let them know their reputation could suffer if they keep denying their customers the facts in order to sell scam products.
News on JREF's Homeopathy Challenge:
- Los Angeles Times: James Randi's challenge and the search for science in homeopathy
- Los Angeles Times: Magician James Randi, skeptics launch attack on makers of homeopathic 'drugs'
- Reason.com: James Randi’s million dollar challenge to homeopathy
- Wired UK: Sceptic offers $1 million for proof that homeopathy works
- Wired UK Podcast: Homeopathy, dissected
- NPR: Homeopathic medicine overdosers survive unscathed
- Babble.com: Skeptic offers $1 million for proof homeopathy works
Full list after the jump.
“Naturopathy” Should Not Be Licensed: Statement by the JREF
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Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.—The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), an organization that works to expose charlatans and help people defend themselves from dangerous paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, today issued this statement by JREF President D.J. Grothe on proposed licensing schemes1 for practitioners of naturopathy:
States should not give out licenses for self-styled health advisers to practice what they call “naturopathy.”
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Dateline NBC Takes On the Alt-Med Cancer Quacks
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Folks, last Sunday night Dateline NBC aired an important episode blasting "alternative" cancer therapies that charlatans are peddling to desperate patients and their families. Sitcom star Suzanne Somers, the renowned medical expert who has written endlessly on subjects of which she has, according to the Sloan-Kettering Institute, “zero proof,” extolled the virtues of “anti-neoplastons,” an absolutely untested and very expensive method of treating cancer, while denying the validity of chemotherapy and/or radiation for that purpose.
A Life Examined
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(Editor’s Note: We have the distinct pleasure this week of publishing the winning essay from the first TAM London scholarship essay contest.)
In November 2004, in a particular English human body, in just one of its 100 trillion cells, a very small event took place. This event was not foretold by any soothsayer, Tarot card, or by the movement of an arbitrary set of stars. It was not intuited on Oprah, instigated by some external entity or punctured effigy; nor was it justified by any sin in this life or any previous.
And yet it happened.
In one blood cell, specifically a precursor T-cell lymphocyte, one section of chromosome 9 and another from chromosome 22 broke and changed places. This translocation reordered a sequence of DNA, creating the BCR-ABL fusion protein, in that one cell. This silent, miniature drama, occurring in a lymphocyte less than 7 micrometres across, a tenth of the width of a human hair, would alter drastically the course of my life.
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