James O'Malley: Event Log

1023 and Alternative Medicine on Trial

On January 30th I got up at an obscenely early hour for a Saturday to go down to Red Lion Square and witness the 1023 mass-overdose on homeopathy for the 1023 campaign. I won’t describe it here, as we’ve covered it at length on The Pod Delusion. Here’s the special episode I made on the day:

Long story short, I interviewed Dave Gorman and Simon Singh, and a stack of other people too. Amazing. Just have a listen.

Afterwards at Conway Hall was a related event called Alternative Medicine On Trial, with Simon Singh and Andy Lewis and some other guy speaking about alternative medicine. Most of the 1023 crowd went along and the bits I saw were thoroughly interesting. I say “the bits I saw” because, er, I skived off the last lecture and spent it in the pub with my Pod Delusion colleagues, Liz and Jon. And then a bit later the rest of the 1023 gang. Whilst I failed at being an impartial journalist I had a lot of fun.