No coincidences - The Enemies of Reason (Channel 4)
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:12 pm
Hi Christine,
This is a repeat of the programme shown back in August.
What is interesting - I'm writing an article about it now - is the
timing of this latest rash of anti-homeopathy articles.
In the autumn - The Early Day Motion in Parliament about the need to
keep NHS homeopathy finally reached the required 200+ signatures of
support which allows it to be debated in the house.
October: An article appears in the Guardian imploring politicians
not to support it and the public to write to their MPs and ask them
not to support it.
November: THREE anti-homeopathy articles appear in The Lancet, none
of them saying anything new - two of them containing no references
whatsoever.
December: Sir David King - scientific advisor to PM Gordon Brown
weighs in with his Daily Mail article headlined : Homeopathy Puts
Lives at Risk - in a nutshell an insubstantial article claiming
homeopathy is dangerous because patients may not get proper diagnosis
for serious conditions and waste time taking placebos - article
online has a ridiculous full colour photo of someone pouring green
liquid into a vial of sach lach globules, and a photo of Sir David at
his desk - presumably designed to make the short article look more
substantial......
December: Re-run of the blatantly biased and unsubstantiated Dawkins
Enemies of Reason.
There have been others but these are the main ones.
There are no coincidences. As for making a documentary - we are
already in production but (not to sound paranoid) I won't talk about
it on this forum because as we know it is infiltrated.
Keep focused and don't take anything personally.
Carol
Carol Boyce MCH, CCH, RSHom (NA)
This is a repeat of the programme shown back in August.
What is interesting - I'm writing an article about it now - is the
timing of this latest rash of anti-homeopathy articles.
In the autumn - The Early Day Motion in Parliament about the need to
keep NHS homeopathy finally reached the required 200+ signatures of
support which allows it to be debated in the house.
October: An article appears in the Guardian imploring politicians
not to support it and the public to write to their MPs and ask them
not to support it.
November: THREE anti-homeopathy articles appear in The Lancet, none
of them saying anything new - two of them containing no references
whatsoever.
December: Sir David King - scientific advisor to PM Gordon Brown
weighs in with his Daily Mail article headlined : Homeopathy Puts
Lives at Risk - in a nutshell an insubstantial article claiming
homeopathy is dangerous because patients may not get proper diagnosis
for serious conditions and waste time taking placebos - article
online has a ridiculous full colour photo of someone pouring green
liquid into a vial of sach lach globules, and a photo of Sir David at
his desk - presumably designed to make the short article look more
substantial......
December: Re-run of the blatantly biased and unsubstantiated Dawkins
Enemies of Reason.
There have been others but these are the main ones.
There are no coincidences. As for making a documentary - we are
already in production but (not to sound paranoid) I won't talk about
it on this forum because as we know it is infiltrated.
Keep focused and don't take anything personally.
Carol
Carol Boyce MCH, CCH, RSHom (NA)