Articles tagged with "mercury"

Mercury in retrograde

15 May 2023

As I mentioned in my introduction, this week I was interviewed about superstitions on the RNZ Nights programme. You can listen to the item here.

Confessions of a Born-Again Skeptic

1 May 2019

Once upon a time, when I was twelve, my father (a man of science) gave me a blob of quicksilver which I put in a pretty pink glass dish beside my bed.

The pop star Michael Jackson has denied that he uses chemicals to lighten his skin and claimed to be suffering from a disorder called "vitiligo," which is a spontaneous loss of skin pigment. Jackson said "There is no such thing as skin bleaching. I've never seen it. I don't know what it is." (GP Weekly 24 Feb, 1993)

Hokum Locum

1 August 1991

It's beginning! I have long wondered when our health system would give in to public demands for fringe medicine, and I see that the West Auckland Health District has appointed a part-time naturopath offering alternative or complementary methods for the treatment of smoking, alcohol misuse and high blood pressure and including nutritional advice. This at a time when the Board's own nutrition services are struggling for funding.