Its funny how you can read a book like that, find a name you know, and realise that you have recently made the acquaintance of someone who is quite famous. This came in the form of a reference to Andy Lewis's website 'The Quackometer' which claims to be a contribution to the automatic debunking of quack medicine on the net.
So - did it work? I tested it on this blog and on my other technical web site and was relieved to find that I got a score of zero quacks on the international scale of quackery for both. Phew!
Just to convince myself it worked I tried the British Chiropractic Association too. They score 8 quacks.
Going to read Richard Wiseman's new book 'Paramormality' next. The first few pages have been gripping.
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