Even though we’ve been using in our clinics and mobiles our homeopathic malaria complex (MalariX) for these last 10 years to not only treat, but also prevent, malaria, we never have been able to track the results simply because it takes money. In the beginning of 2009, however, we were given a generous donation and I was able [to] initiate the steps to pull together a proper study on the product.

<Scene: The England dressing room, after unambiguous defeat by Germany.>
COACH: That was a-terrible game! Why you no a-scoring the goals?!
ROONEY: I couldn't help it, my feet wouldn't move quickly.
COACH: Why ees this? I ask the doctor. Doctor! Doctor!
<Enter the TEAM DOCTOR from 17th Century, wearing frock coat and powdered wig.>
COACH: Doctor, why Rooney's feet move so slowly like he-a-saying?
DOCTOR: Alas a clear case of Sludginess Of The Blood, sir.
COACH: Sludginess of the blood?
DOCTOR: Yes, sir. A not uncommon affliction induced by breathing the Rareified Airs of mountainous regions. This imbalances the Essential Humours and causes the liver to make a Very Great Excess of blood, which perturbs the Whole Organism and can cause Clogging Of The Pipes just as Mr Rooney describes. In extreme cases sufferers have been known to burst.

...risible kangaroo court ... a tragedy and a travesty... monstrous injustice ... sinister travesty ...

By proceeding against Dr Singh, and not the Guardian, and by rejecting the offer made by the Guardian to publish an appropriate article refuting Dr Singh's contentions, or putting them in a proper prospective, the unhappy impression has been created that this is an endeavour by the BCA to silence one of its critics...

Discarded paper table “linen” and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy.

The MOD has been served with a Freedom of Information Act request relating to what it knows about "worringly big sea monsters": Dear Ministry of Defence, Are there any abnormally large, or dangerous sea monsters hundreds of metres under the sea that haven't been revealed to the public? Being a marine biologist, it would be in the best interest of the public as our lives could be at risk. And the MOD hasn't responded as promptly as it should have done... what are they hiding?

He has made several other wooden machines, but calls this latest one his crowning achievement.

But an Old Bailey judge ruled that, as the sale of traditional Chinese medicines was totally unregulated, there was no evidence that she knew of the potential harm. A charge of "administering a noxious substance so as to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm" was therefore thrown out.
"Everybody accepts that you didn't know you were breaking the law," he told Ms Wu.

The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, which represents more than 450 practitioners, said the case highlighted "the urgent need for the statutory regulation of herbal medicine in the UK".

I was accused once of being the enemy of the Enlightenment. I felt rather proud. I thought, ‘Hang on a moment’. The Enlightenment started over 200 years ago. It might be time to think again and review it and question whether it is really effective in today’s conditions, faced as we are with huge challenges all over the world. It must be apparent to people deep down that we have to do something about it.

• We now have an idea what colour a species of feathered dinosaurs were; white and orange stripes.
• After an heroic 10 month battle to free itself from a patch of soft sand, the Mars rover Spirit is stuck for good and will be used as a static monitoring station. Its sibling robot Opportunity is still mobile nearly 6 years after its warranty expired.
• The Kepler planet-hunting space telescope found its first five new planets around other stars a few weeks ago.

• Climate models ignore water vapour, which is a far more important greenhouse gas than CO2.
• Emissions from people burning fossil fuels are too small to change the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
• Volcanoes produce by far the greatest amounts of CO2.

• Water vapour is important and behaves differently than CO2, and climate models do not ignore it.
• Emissions from burning fossil fuels are sufficient that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere (whether measured in New Zealand, Hawaii or the South Pole), has risen over the last 120-ish years to a higher level than has been seen for at least the last 650,000 years. CO2 concentrations for the last thousand years measured from bubbles trapped in ice is summarised here; steady at 280 parts per million from 1000AD until 1880, since which it's gone up to over 380 ppm today.
• As for volcanoes being by far the largest emitters of CO2, the US Geological Survey have the following to say:

  Our studies show that globally, volcanoes on land and under the sea release a total of about 200 million tonnes of CO2 annually. ... while 200 million tonnes of CO2 is large, the global fossil fuel CO2 emissions for 2003 tipped the scales at 26.8 billion tonnes. Thus, not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value.

  My emphasis. Volcanoes only produce "by far the greatest" amount of CO2 if your definition of "by far the greatest" includes "less than 130th as much as burning fossil fuels".

he claimed that CO2 levels are too negligible to cause warming, that water is a greater greenhouse glass and that in any case plants absorb excess CO2.
An article published on the New Scientist’s website yesterday provides a wealth of scientific evidence against such claims. Ball also made some less decipherable comments that insects’ and spiders’ natural emissions were more damaging to the climate than fossil fuels.

A police force has defended spending £20,000 investigating a man's death after his ghost was said to have told psychics that gangsters had forced him to drink petrol and bleach. ... An inquest this week recorded a verdict of suicide after hearing there was no evidence of foul play. However the coroner, Peter Brunton, queried the murder inquiry held after mediums tipped off police, suggesting that the words "lion, a horse and a man called Tony Fox" were significant. "There was a great deal of communication between the mediums and the police," he said. "A great deal of effort was expended in following these leads up."

When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells

Further to your email to David Tredinnick MP, following his Adjournment Debate, he has asked me to send you details of the book he used in researching the topic to which you referred.
It is "Astrology and Compassion the Convenient Truth", by Roy Gillett, Kings Hart Books 2007, particularly paragraph 2, page 45.
I hope that is of assistance.

In a letter, the home secretary wrote: "I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as Chair of the ACMD."

A conversion kit claiming to allow vehicles to run more efficiently using water does not work, a BBC investigation has discovered ... Its main component is a stainless steel vessel containing water and electrodes. It generates bubbles of oxygen and hydrogen gas by electrolysis, using an electrical current. The device is fitted under the bonnet of the car and draws its power from the car battery. The mixture of oxygen and hydrogen is piped into the air intake of the engine and is supposed to add to the conventional fuel.

When confronted with the evidence, Steven Cordner of Hydro-Fuel Systems claimed the system worked but admitted he had no proof to show us. He said they had stopped selling the product.

The Wellcome Collection has a couple of excellent 1890s adverts for implausible magnetic medical devices peddled by Mr Harness' Medical Battery Company. What's better is that PubMed has a copy of a British Medical Journal article from 1893 taking the Medical Battery Company to task in no uncertain terms: THE MEDICAL BATTERY COMPANY, LIMITED, AND THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OUR readers may remember that in the issue of the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL of November 12th last the following paragraph appeared: "We have good grounds for stating that the Times has recently refused a four-column advertisment from the Harness Electropathic Belt Establishment, of the value of £80, a course worthy of the high and honorable traditions of the that journal" The object and intention of the paragraph was, we now unreservedly state (as Mr Harness himself has put it in the action he brought against the JOURNAL), that the Medical Battery Company (that is, Mr Harness) "carried on so dishonest and disreputable a trade and business, and were so notorious and of such ill repute as a trading company, that it was discreditable and unworthy on the part of a newspaper proprietor of high position and standing to transact with the plaintiff company the ordinary business of newspaper proprietors with traders in accepting and inserting at all, or even upon more favorable terms, the plaintiffs' trade advertisements" ... It's a great read, and all in moustache-quivering Victorian language. Long story short; the BMJ called Mr Harness out as a quack, he sued the BMJ, the BMJ stuck to their guns and the quack backed down.

In 2001 I raised in the House the influence of the moon, on the basis of the evidence then that at certain phases of the moon there are more accidents. Surgeons will not operate because blood clotting is not effective and the police have to put more people on the street.

"It is a good system as it solves the problem of dealing with animal waste and it provides heat," said Mr Virta.

there is a theory that the emergence of the [HIV] virus in humans was itself caused by trials of the polio vaccine in Africa in the 1950s