Alt med updates

I'm leaving, on a jet plane... but I do know when I'll be back again. But between now and then I'm off to jolly old to attend TAM London! So this is a short post designed to buy me a few hours. 1) Remember the homeopath and his wife who killed their nine-month-old daughter, because she had severe eczema and all they did was give her nothing but water (because that's what homeopathic "medicine" is)? Yeah, they got six years in jail. 2) Antivax groups aren't getting smarter about medicine, but they are getting smarter about branding. They call themselves Talking About Curing Autism and Operation Rescue, but don't be fooled: they are antivaccination, pure and simple. And whether they believe what they say or not, they are not supporting children. They are putting them at grave risk of illness and death from preventable diseases. Worse, if you read that ...