Minutus

Yes folks it's true!
Front page headlines in the Daily Mail today "Homeopathy killed my
wife"!
Front page!
'At last we know homeopathy works' I thought to myself, 'it must do if
it can kill!'
'Hooray!' I slavered as I prepared to read the article, 'homeopathy is
no longer relegated to the ranks of placebo, it can kill, it can kill
it can kill'

But no, on skimming the article I find it has nothing to do with
homeopathy per se but some allegation that a homeopath recommended a
patient stop conventional cancer treatment and that's what killed them.

My good sense prevails and I stop reading the rest of this crap.

Thank heavens I have the organisations that represent homeopaths (SOH,
ARH, HMA etc) to rely on to address this mud slinging.
I can rest in the sure knowledge that they will give the paper a right
toasting and not let my profession be brought into disrepute by what is
tantamount to libel or slander, I'm not sure which but my blood might
boil if I think about it too hard. They will point out that registered
members are bound by codes of practice that prevent just this sort of
thing and question the motives behind this sort of reporting and all
will be well and all will be well and all manner of thing will be well.

It will won't it?
Simon

ps I was disappointed to find it didn't get someone's cat pregnant,
perhap that will be next on the Mail's agenda

Hi Simon, all,

This front page 'headliner' for their "Health
pages" actually said, in big caps: HOMEOPATHY - 'How
Homeopathy killed my wife'. Inside is a two page article
damning Homeopathy, but the whole article is not just about one
or two homeopaths in West London who were not (by the sound
of the prescriptions) homeopaths at all -- as one claimed to have
told the lady before she died of cancer, she was "cured" -- and
used something called Vita Fons II water at a cost of £18 for 85
ml (£210 a litre according to the report). There was also an
envelope marked "Berlin Wall. Toxic. Do not touch". . .
No further comment needed really.

Unfortunately, they end the article by quoting a spokesman from
the BHA, who said ["Unfortunately not all homeopaths are
medically qualified and there is no statutory regulation. This
means anyone can set up as a homeopath without scrutiny." To
check a practitioner is listed in the Faculty of Homeopaths, visit
www.trusthomeopathy.org.]
I wish I could send an url for the article, but a search was
fruitless. Maybe someone else will be more successful, but I
can't find a link page.

regards, Barbara

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Simon King
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I knew there was a reason I don't read the Mail!! However I have a large page cutting in my Clinic where the large heading is "Homeopathy even works on sceptics" page 52 (why not the front page?) March 10th 2003.also from the Daily Mail . A patient brought it in for me. It is laminated and is in a conspicuous spot!!

Rochelle