Natural Health, Placebos and Gibberish

science Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Post by David Bradley

Dean Burnett has been up to some skeptical vandalism in the name of rationality and science-based medicine. Here’s his before and after of a magazine cover he was dismayed to see in the waiting area of the Cardiff University Brain Scanning and Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). Dean is the infamous garwboy on Twitter.

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