Nobody ever gets sick in China. Okay, that would be true if Eastern Medicine were actually worth a monkey's ass. But here’s the truth: sticking acupuncture needles in your feet will not cure your asthma; the Chinese practice of cupping does nothing more than leave ugly red marks on your back; and the Japanese “art” of reiki won’t channel your spiritual energy for healing – it’ll just channel your money into the reiki “artist’s” pocket.

At least Tiger Penis soup tastes delicious, even if it – like all the other Chinese herbal potions – doesn’t cure a damn thing. We're taking down the charlatans who prey on the seriously ill with this unproven, unscientific, and unbelievably dumb type of "medicine."

Professor Edzard Ernst is the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the United Kingdom, yet he is not some woo merchant, instead he has for years investigated and tested various alternative medicines.

Well now Professor Edzard Ernst is putting up £10,000 to be given to the first person who can show homeopathy is better than a placebo in a scientifically controlled trial.

By Jon Donni

Newsnight decided to investigate Homeopathy, so they choose 10 random Homoepaths from the internet, 10 out of the 10 they choose gave murderously stupid advice on Malaria prevention.

Spokesperson Melanie Oxley is invited onto Newsnight to defend Homeopathy, but as a homeopath herself she ends up making herself look stupid and uneducated.

Luckily sceptic and scientist Simon Singh is on hand to give a rational and intelligent viewpoint.

I was recently made aware of yet another person who was making cancer curing claims.

Robin Bela is a self proclaimed Reiki Master, who teaches and sells all manner of woo.

So we decided to investigate and report her to Trading Standards.

By Jon Donni

Do you mistrust your own decisions? Are you feeling guilty? Perhaps you can be intolerant or feel impatient. Are you unwell? Suffer from asthma?

Well, if I told you four drops of brandy taken in water throughout the day could cure your mental turmoil and thus let your body heal itself would you believe me? What if I said it was special brandy that had a drop of water in which a flower had been floated added to it? Or a twig. Still not convinced?

By Jenny "mischiefmonkey"

*or so she likes to think.

"Healing cancer. Naturally!" is a website designed and written by Ursula Schmid of Berlin, Germany.
Through the site she aims to provide "an all-round 'holistic' view of the many natural ways that have been used to heal cancer."

"Healing cancer. naturally!" is at the top of search engine lists should you search for "healing cancer" or anything similar, yet a closer inspection of the site shows that it is infact full of very dangerous information.

By Hayley

The third member of the UUKPS triumvirate of founder members is Andy Porter, who is also a professional soul rescuer.

Of the three founder members of the Unity of UK Psychic Surgeons only one is a virtually unknown quantity - Andy Porter. Gary Mannion and Nina Knowland have hogged the limelight for long enough, let's give Andy a chance!

His website (andy-porter.co.uk) is a bit short on biographical details, but he wastes no time in introducing his readers to the wonderful world of psychic surgery:

By Julia

It's not often I am provoked into writing an article because 'I'm not allowed to get my point across', but EssexSpiritGuide.co.uk have left me little choice.

There are not many things in this life that annoy me, (he lied) but 'censorship' is one of them. To see a situation where only one side of the story is put across, all others are deleted as it 'upsets the applecart', is, for want of a better word, pathetic.

By Meercat

Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant today revealed that so called "Healing Medium" Jomanda is to be prosecuted over the death of Dutch actor and comedian Sylvia Millecam (February 23, 1956 – August 19, 2001).

Sylvia Millecam was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, she did visit regular doctors, but she choose to ignore regular treatment and instead decided to visit several alternative healers, including Jomanda.

By Jon Donni

The founder members of the UUKPS: Gary Mannion, Andy Porter and Nina Knowland

Looking for an authentic, ethical psychic surgeon? A new organisation rejoicing in the name of the Unity of UK Psychic Surgeons may be able to help you. But a closer look at the UUKPS reveals some familiar faces...

By Julia

Madeline Neumann, a young girl of just 11 years old has died from diabetic ketoacidosis after her parents choose to pray for her instead of getting her treated for her condition by doctors.

This story has had people reacting furiously around the world. How the parents of an innocent child could just callously stand by and allow this poor girl to go through over 30 days of nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness, until her body eventually just gave up and she died.

By Jon Donni

Exposing New Age charlatans can be a frustrating business. E-mails to newspaper editors, trading standards authorities, MPs, doctors and scientists tend to go unanswered for weeks or are ignored completely, as are phone messages left on answering machines. But perseverance DOES pay off, as BP has discovered this week.

You may remember that a testimonial from "Rodger Andrews", insinuating that his terminal cancer disappeared two days after being treated by Gary Mannion, recently appeared on two of Gary's sites. I reported what seemed to me to be a breach of the Cancer Act to Gary's local Trading Authority, Brent and Harrow. It took some time to get a reply but in the meantime Gary toned down the wording of Andrews' testimonial on garymannion.com. I suspected that someone from Trading Standards must have had a word in Gary's ear, and sure enough an e-mail from Winston Brooks of Brent and Harrow TS confirmed that this was the case - Gary had been given a verbal warning.

By Julia

Homeopathy is becoming the highest profile victim of the Government’s drive to promote cost-effective use of NHS resources, with PCTs across the country stopping funding for the controversial treatment.

I really do hate having to repeat myself, but people like Knowland insist on forcing me to. I could just print the link to the original article on her like this:

http://badpsychics.com/thefraudfiles/modules/news/article.php?storyid=603

and be done with it, but Nina has obviously never heard of the phrase, 'When you're in a hole, stop digging'.

As you will be aware, Nina is a 'spiritual healer' although she lists no medical training or experience on her website, just Counselling Skills Module 1, Counselling Skills Module 2, Certificate in working with special needs Children and some worthless certificates from the National Federation of Spiritual Healers.

By Meercat

As you are all aware, I'm very easily confused. It doesn't take much at all to be honest. So you will appreciate my state of mind after reading Dr. Helena Steiner-Hornsteyn's website. It was the equivalent of suffering an LSD flashback whilst playing 'Deal or no Deal' at the same time as trying to sort out David and Victoria Beckhams clothes into two separate piles.

Dr. Helena Steiner-Hornsteyn is an 'Interfaith Ordained Minister'. This as you are all very well aware means very little. A large number of the members of BadPsychics are 'Interfaith Ordained Ministers', myself included, I've always thought The Reverend Meercat has a nice ring to it. Mind you, my dog is also an Ordained Minister (although i had to set up an email account for it first)

By Meercat

There is currently a petition running with the express purpose to petition the Prime Minister to Immediately ban NHS funding of homoeopathy and redirect the resources to proven medicine.

A look at Homeopathy and why its not as innocent as homeopaths like to say it is.

By Dave Jones

Got £1,350 to spare? Got a couple of weeks off work? Why not contact Patrick Hamouy and have a holiday in the Philippines and visit some 'Psychic Healers'!

Well, I say £1350, you do also have to pay for your flights....

By Meercat

James Randi explains homeopathy.

This is a portion of the lecture Randi gave at Princeton in 2001