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Homeopathy – right royal quack medicine
PETER FROST was delighted when the Advertising Standards Agency banned homeopaths offering to cure autism
ULTIMATE CON: This bottle is labelled Arnica montana (wolf’s bane) D6 ie the nominal dilution is one part in a million and (right) Samuel Hahnemann
[Arnica pic: Abalg/Creative Commons]
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Speaking in Belfast some years ago the chair of the meeting handsomely sang my praises as a Morning Star columnist, but there was a sting in the tail of his introduction. “The only thing Peter gets wrong,” he declared “is his attitude to homeopathy.”
I’ve never had any time for this particular form of quack medicine and never more than now when many homeopathic so-called doctors are offering to cure autism. Parents of autistic children understand that this isn’t a disease to be cured but a condition making children different but not ill.
The good news is that the Advertising Standards Agency has made such adverts illegal.
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