Graham Lappin

On the subject of religion, I openly admit I am confused. Perhaps confused in the wrong word - undecided might be better. Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion classifies people’s belief in a deity on a sliding scale from the religious devout to the absolute atheist. On this sliding scale, I guess I sit somewhere towards the atheist but overall, if religion where likened to British politics, I would probably have to sit with the Liberal Democrats.

Convention would therefore ...

It is true that some plants contain pharmacologically-active substances and on that basis, perhaps there is some utility in herbal remedies. Closer examination however, reveals that not only are many of the claims of the herbalist very spurious, there are hidden and pernicious dangers.

Off all the Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM), from homeopathy to urine therapy, perhaps the one that might have some basis of rationality is herbal medicine. Plants have evolved an array ...

A couple of years ago I helped out (actually I narrated) on a video project. The remit was to come up with some completely daft pseudoscience that no one had heard of before and then make it into a spoof. The first problem we encountered was that inventing a novel pseudoscience was really not that easy. The trouble was that virtually every idea we came up with had already been thought of. To take just one example, we tried to think of a really bizarre “cure-all”. There are plenty of cure-all ...