Quacks and Cures
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Friday, 10 July 2009 -
Friday, 4 June 2010
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2BE
How Much:
Free!
A free late night of fun at the Wellcome Collection this June. All sorts of weird and wonderful performances, interactive displays, activities and discussions looking at the strange attitudes that people have had to medicine over the last few centuries.
Whilst it's easy to mock the science of the past, it's always worth remembering the words of Thomas Carlyle, who said that "the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century... We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another."
Last year's (and potentially ruinous) libel dispute between Simon Singh and the British Chiropractic Association proves Carlyle's point rather succinctly. Science is not immune from idiocy - nor shall it ever be.
Of course Wellcome explores all this over the course of a night of free Friday fun, rather than our tedious waffle.
Whilst it's easy to mock the science of the past, it's always worth remembering the words of Thomas Carlyle, who said that "the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century... We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another."
Last year's (and potentially ruinous) libel dispute between Simon Singh and the British Chiropractic Association proves Carlyle's point rather succinctly. Science is not immune from idiocy - nor shall it ever be.
Of course Wellcome explores all this over the course of a night of free Friday fun, rather than our tedious waffle.
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