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It also complicates certain kinds of editing on the page. Can we reunite all the text into the same file?
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2009-09-06 18:36:25 Ah, that's better! —docmartin
2010-02-07 21:11:22 The 'Mass suicide' - yes, but these pills take time - there's still hope! Au revoir, British Science Fascists! —docmartin
2010-06-29 23:52:38 Some great quotes here, maybe:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/29/ban-homeopathy-from-nhs-doctors —docmartin
Ban homeopathy from NHS, say doctors
Homeopathic treatments should be banned from the NHS and taken off pharmacy shelves designated for medicines, doctors said today .
Members of the British Medical Association said homeopathic remedies should be relegated to shelves "labelled placebos" and that NHS money should not be spent on treatments that are scientifically implausible.
Proposing the motion at the BMA's annual representative meeting in Brighton Mary McCarthy, a GP from Shropshire, said homeopathic doctors claimed that it made people feel better. "Lots of things make you feel better – a sunny day, the smell of the sea, a hug, retail therapy," she said.
"It can do harm by diverting patients from conventional medical treatments."
She said the issue was about NHS funding and promotion and would not prevent homeopaths from practising. Tom Dolphin, a member of the BMA's junior doctors' committee, backed the motion. He said he had previously described homeopathy as witchcraft, but now wanted to apologise to witches for making that link.
"Homeopathy is not witchcraft, it is nonsense on stilts. It is pernicious nonsense that feeds into a rising wave of irrationality which threatens to overwhelm the hard-won gains of the enlightenment and the scientific method," he said.
"We risk, as a society, slipping back into a state of magical thinking when made-up science passes for rational discourse and wishing for something to be true passes for proof.
2010-11-22 13:27:26 The bores are still at it...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/nov/21/1 —docmartin
2010-11-22 18:03:05 who owns the Guardian, that is the question.... —PerigGouanvic
2010-11-22 20:19:40 Hi P-A,
Yes, I read they were a sort of 'Trust', (the 'Scott Trust', dedicated to 'liberal values' ... but they became a company not so long ago... But I think the problem is more that they got infiltrated by those Oxbridge types. I suggested to the Doc he ask the Trust to consider whether the line between 'fact and comment', very dear to the paper's founder, has been crossed in the endless campaign against alternative medicine.
The funny thing is, the paper's natural constituency IS alternative medicine types. Hippies and CNDers...
The paper evidently despises its readers... I htink a lot of journos are like this. It's very unhealthy. —NormanNitram
