"The Western medical model [...] makes two devastating separations. First of all we separate the mind from the body, we separate the emotions from the physiology." "My view is that mind and body can ...

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) can impair physical, emotional, academic, and social functioning. Evidence on time-restricted eating (TRE) for PMS remains limited. This parallel-group randomised ...

The claim - strongly favoured by some skeptics - that clinical trials should be conducted only for interventions that are plausible, i.e. do not contradict secure scientific knowledge, is erroneous ...

For decades, I have warned of the harms done by misleading health information. It is therefore a delight and pleasure to see that - all of a sudden - the subject has become a most popular subject.

Please allow me for once to post a short story, a piece of pure fiction (I promise to not do it again in a hurry): On Midterm Election night, Trump declares that the election is being stolen before ...

Building a cabinet is a delicate art. While previous US administrations seem to have prioritized professional competence, policy expertise, or public trust, the Trump standard requires considerably ...

In medicine, when critical thinking gives way to wishful version of thinking, confidence ceases to be a virtue and becomes a ...

Speaking at a rally in Ohio, the President of the United States of America, Donald J Trump, recently informed the crowd that he knows more about everything than anyone in the world. Let’s be precise, ...

I just watched a video where Alice Weidel vehemently denied the existance of extremist or nationalsocialist ideologies within her party, the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD). Yet, the official ...

Guest post by Björn Geir In November 2023, a woman in her forties attended an acupuncture session in central Oslo. Needles were inserted into her neck, shoulders and areas close to the thorax. During ...

The pervasive use of cell phones has led to a substantial increase in pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in our immediate environment. For pharmaceuticals, close proximity EMF effects are considered ...

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Dolly Parton once observed wittily and self-critically. Her bon mot made me realise that homeopathy offers an equally remarkable, proposition: it costs a ...