Homeopathy
I saw this story on, I think, Newsnight last night. The reporter who researched the story was clearly of similar thinking to me, and I think had some editorial control not been put on him he'd have ranted quite nicely on the subject.
Frankly though, I don't see what the big news is. I mean, if you've got someone publically declaring that they think homeopathy works then what on earth do you expect them to do?
There was lots of talk directed at a representative of some sort of homeopathic governing body saying they should be responsible and make sure their homeopaths offered good advice. Good advice would be telling the homeopaths to get some clue and stop selling quack remedies though. The problem is that there are people selling unproven remedies, and not just remedies that are unproven because noone's tested them properly, but ones that are unproven despite a mass of wasted effort spent testing them.
'When Newsnight called the clinic asking why its consultant gave that advice, it said that this was a mistake.'
The mistake isn't so much that the advice was given but that it employed a homeopath in the first place.
Frankly though, I don't see what the big news is. I mean, if you've got someone publically declaring that they think homeopathy works then what on earth do you expect them to do?
There was lots of talk directed at a representative of some sort of homeopathic governing body saying they should be responsible and make sure their homeopaths offered good advice. Good advice would be telling the homeopaths to get some clue and stop selling quack remedies though. The problem is that there are people selling unproven remedies, and not just remedies that are unproven because noone's tested them properly, but ones that are unproven despite a mass of wasted effort spent testing them.
'When Newsnight called the clinic asking why its consultant gave that advice, it said that this was a mistake.'
The mistake isn't so much that the advice was given but that it employed a homeopath in the first place.