harriet hall

I'm not sure what to make of this. At first reading it sounds real but Beck has pulled so many stunts in the past that I'm not willing to give him much slack. What do you think?

Retired flight surgeon and Skeptical Inquirer reporter Dr. Harriet Hall has criticized the U.S. military for sanctioning acupuncture and permitting "treatment" by cupping and moxibustion. Maybe we should have let them keep on playing with goats. At least there they weren't hurting anyone.

Harriet Hall, MD, The SkepDoc, discusses her column in O, The Oprah Magazine that focuses on debunking medical myths. She contrasts science-based medicine and “complementary and alternative medicine,” and tells why she objects to the latter term. She details why homeopathy elicits more moral...

This site was mentioned in the SWIFT commentary, but I think it's worth starting a thread on it here and introducing it to a wider audience. It appears to be one of the best sceptical ideas for some time - a website based on the use of actual science in medicine, written by a superb team of...

Marshall E. Deutsch, a member of the International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics, wrote an article in Skeptic magazine and spoke at TAM4 on this topic. I wrote a rebuttal in the following issue of Skeptic. I am skeptical about cholesterol too, and I agree with some of Deutsch's points, but I...