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today I have taken issue with:

- salicylate sensitivities (if 90% of the google results are woo-based or wikipedia, I'm going to retain my skepticism about whether something is real);

- homeopathy (bunk)

- the nutritional and dental claims of the Weston A. Price Foundation, which I consider to be one of the wooiest heaps of woo in existence. Second only to homeopathy.

BTW, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst's book is a pretty good read, as is Rose Shapiro.

Also, while I am not a huge fan of NHS Blog Doc (his views on midwives and nurses can be pretty retrograde to say the least) he's got a good post on Dr John Briffa, scourge of the Observer:

http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2008/06/dr-john-briffa.html

What is Woo?

From one of my fave blogs, Respectful Insolence.