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Dahlias for Diabetes?

Dahlias for Diabetes?

One of our contacts noticed an item on TVNZ news on the 7th March detailing a product being developed by the University of Otago for prevention treatment of type 2 Diabetes. A complaint was made to TVNZ but they have not upheld the complaint.

UK has scrapped useless treatments

18 classes of health product are being de-funded by the NHS in the UK, including 7 that are blacklisted:

Chemistry: an antidote to pseudoscientific thinking?

Chemistry: an antidote to pseudoscientific thinking?

Having a basic knowledge of the principles of chemistry can help one evade the pitfalls of many pseudosciences - but it's not infallible. This article is based on a presentation to the 2011 NZ Skeptics Conference.