Skeptics in the Pub - 18th March 2008: Regulating Alternative Medicine
Regulating Alternative Medicine: Are the Quacks Ducking the Issues?
Hosted by:The Skeptic Magazine
Speakers: Prof David Colquhoun, University College London
Andy Lewis, The Quackometer
Starts:March 18, 2008 at 07:00 pm
Location: The Penderel's Oak, The Cellar Bar, 283 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7HP United Kingdom
Maps: Description
2008 is going to see a big battle between various groups as to who gets to pretend to regulate alternative therapists. The Government, through Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health, is setting up The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, a voluntary federal register. The problem is, no one appears to want to join.
Various homoeopaths’ Membership Groups are setting up their own ‘Single Registers’. More fundamentally, no group looking at this issue appears to want to tackle the inconvenient problem that most alternative therapies do no work and their practitioners hold strange and sometimes dangerous beliefs.
Two sceptical bloggers will explore the issues.
David Colquhoun is a pharmacologist at University College London who writes the Improbable Science blog at DC Science.
Andy Lewis is the creator and writer of The Quackometer blog. Registration required: No Additional information
A £2 donation is requested to cover the guest speaker’s travelling expenses and sundries.
Non-skeptics are welcome.
Turn up at any time during the evening.
The room is open from about 5.30pm.
For more information
Contact person:Sid RodriguesPhone:020 8943 7540Email:pub [ at ] skeptic.org.ukWebsite:Regulating Alternative Medicine: Are the Quacks Ducking the Issues?