Friday, January 8, 2010

Oh, Man, France Really Isn't Going To Like This*

"The whole field is messy, vague, inaccurate and entirely dependent on the goodwill or ignorance of patients for any positive results. At best it’s a harmless placebo, at worst it’s a despicable, cynical, potentially deadly confidence trick played on the sick."

-- Ian Douglas, reporting on Professor David Colquhoun's magnificent new series about newly-released documents from a "Homeopathy 'degree' course" taught at the University of Central Lancashire - the course (along with almost all of the rest of its "alternative" medicine courses) has since been closed - revealing some of the more craven, "absurd and dangerous" aspects of what many laughingly call "woo-woo", in The Telegraph, U.K..

*The French use Homeopathic preparations at a rate of 4 to 1. My marriage, to a French woman, was destroyed because of Homeopathy.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the plug. I'd better get to work on part 2

    (By the way, the link to DC's Improbable Science in your right column still points to my old page)

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