NHS Tayside to tackle the common-sense deficit...
The Daily Express* has run an article (I won't link to the DE - sorry) pointing out the ridiculousness of NHS Tayside cutting 500 jobs in a £30m economy drive while advertising a £68,000pa job for a homeopathy "doctor" - to earn which one must only work 8 hours a week.
The sceptics on twitter and elsewhere have had a blast sending in job applications for this, see http://sciencedigestive.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-application-for-job-as-homeopath.html and http://xtaldave.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/in-which-i-apply-for-a-job-as-a-homeopath/ as good examples, and the sceptic heavy-hitters like @SLSingh are wading in too.
Here's my infinitely less amusing contribution:
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Dear morons,
I know absolutely nothing about homeopathy.
Well, actually that's not strictly true. I know that every credible scientific investigation carried out on it has concluded that it's about as much use in treating people as a chocolate fireguard would have been in London circa 1666. I know it involves diluting stuff down to very small concentrations and then handing out the resulting placeboes to gullible people in return for money. In short, I know that it is at best hilarious new-age quackery and at worst is really quite serious fraud.
At any rate I was cheered to see this job advertised, as I'm sure that taxpayer-funded homeopathy will be of great comfort to the 500 people whose jobs have to go because of cuts. As an additional bonus, it's a positive sign that the NHS can afford to shell out £68,000 for someone to hand out fluff and snake-oil to idiots: maybe you guys have got more money available than I thought (or at least less sense).
At any rate, I know perhaps 0.5% of what I would need to know in order to do this job, so surely by the very "science" that underpins this mind-boggling waste of everyone's time and money I am the perfect candidate for the job, and would be more effective than, say, a real fucking doctor who might, in some Dr. Gregory House-like fashion, deploy limitless reserves of creativity and genius to somehow earn nearly seventy grand for 8 hour's graft.
Seriously, are you guys actually taking the piss?
Yours hopefully,
Gareth Dart MSc Bsc(Hons)
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Want to have a crack at it yourself? You can quote-unquote apply here: http://www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ApplySearch/VacancyDetails.aspx?vacNo=348347
G
* - I know, I know, but even a fuckwit clock is right twice a day. Sorry, stopped clock.
The sceptics on twitter and elsewhere have had a blast sending in job applications for this, see http://sciencedigestive.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-application-for-job-as-homeopath.html and http://xtaldave.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/in-which-i-apply-for-a-job-as-a-homeopath/ as good examples, and the sceptic heavy-hitters like @SLSingh are wading in too.
Here's my infinitely less amusing contribution:
--- *** ---
Dear morons,
I know absolutely nothing about homeopathy.
Well, actually that's not strictly true. I know that every credible scientific investigation carried out on it has concluded that it's about as much use in treating people as a chocolate fireguard would have been in London circa 1666. I know it involves diluting stuff down to very small concentrations and then handing out the resulting placeboes to gullible people in return for money. In short, I know that it is at best hilarious new-age quackery and at worst is really quite serious fraud.
At any rate I was cheered to see this job advertised, as I'm sure that taxpayer-funded homeopathy will be of great comfort to the 500 people whose jobs have to go because of cuts. As an additional bonus, it's a positive sign that the NHS can afford to shell out £68,000 for someone to hand out fluff and snake-oil to idiots: maybe you guys have got more money available than I thought (or at least less sense).
At any rate, I know perhaps 0.5% of what I would need to know in order to do this job, so surely by the very "science" that underpins this mind-boggling waste of everyone's time and money I am the perfect candidate for the job, and would be more effective than, say, a real fucking doctor who might, in some Dr. Gregory House-like fashion, deploy limitless reserves of creativity and genius to somehow earn nearly seventy grand for 8 hour's graft.
Seriously, are you guys actually taking the piss?
Yours hopefully,
Gareth Dart MSc Bsc(Hons)
--- *** ---
Want to have a crack at it yourself? You can quote-unquote apply here: http://www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ApplySearch/VacancyDetails.aspx?vacNo=348347
G
* - I know, I know, but even a fuckwit clock is right twice a day. Sorry, stopped clock.