Just heard Simon Singh on Radio 4’s Today programme talking about homeopathy again, rubbishing three randomised controlled trials that seem to indicate benefits despite the fact that he “only looked at them very quickly last night”. Very rigorous, that, Simon! Anyway, thanks for dismissing them for us so we don’t have to bother looking [...]

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An excerpt from Nicotine: The Drug That Never Was (Volume II: A Change Of Mind)
ii). The tobacco story has so many curious twists and turns that I am never really surprised when another one pops up. In Volume One I mentioned that I hadn’t quite managed to discover exactly when the “nicotine addiction” story [...]

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“In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind phase II clinical trial, 638 men and women aged 18-65 who smoked an average of 10 cigarettes per day during the previous year, without a period of abstinence of more than 3 months, where put on placebo, bupropion (another drug used as a smoking cessation aid, brand name Zyban®), or [...]

Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Smoking by Chris
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Scrap the smoking cessation programme. As I demonstrated with all the evidence from the various government reports in “The NHS Lie Exposed” there is no significant difference between what smokers can achieve by themselves using willpower and the long term outcomes of NHS help, ie. when followed up at one year after “treatment”. [...]

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