For UK members regarding Advertising Standards Authority adjudication

[S]

Hello to all,
I thought it appropriate to bring to your attention the activities of a private limited company (not a registered charity, which nonetheless uses a '.org' url address). This company of three individuals has been recruiting volunteers and wants donations to fund its activites. None of these individuals appear to have
any medical qualifications.

To date amongst other things, in July 2011, it has obtaining ASA adjudications against Ainsworths Homeopathic company, and against other complementery health businesses.

It also has run campaigns against UK universities such as the Universty of Westminster, who offer CAM degrees.

These recent ASA rulings affect even further, how homeopathy can be advertised and promoted in the UK

It's an education looking at their website and in a nutshell its aims are

"The Nightingale Collaboration will work to improve the protection of the public by ensuring that claims made in the promotion of healthcare therapies are not misleading. We will do this by:
challenging misleading claims made by practitioners on their websites, in adverts and in their promotional and sales materials and subjecting these to scrutiny by the appropriate regulatory bodies;
striving to ensure that organisations representing healthcare practitioners have robust codes of conduct for their members that protect the public and that these are rigorously enforced."

taken from http://www.nightingale-collaboration.org/

The actual adjudication is in the following post
kind regards to all
Susan

[Tanya Marquette]

In reading this kind of material, I keep coming back to the idea that there needs be
a serious and massive response from the public as well as the profession against this
ASA assault on the descriptive use of homeopathy. Their denialist mentality needs to
be cracked publically.
Is my memory correct that ASA links with Big Pharma have been identified?
tanya