Category: Westminster Review

With thanks to A Personal Decision by Alan V. Schmukler and to Some history of the treatment of epidemics with Homeopathy by Julian Winston, both published by Homeopathy for Everyone and many more articles on homeopathy and vaccination here:

From a A Personal Decision by Alan V. Schmukler: The question of whether to vaccinate is a personal and often difficult decision. One has to weigh the danger of the disease and the chance of contracting it, against the dangers of the vaccine.

Neither side in the debate can guarantee 100% protection. read this entry »

With thanks to Health News 14.11.08

A study published in the Journal of American Medical Association way back in 1998 showed that visits to alternative practitioners increased from 34% in 1990 to 42% in 1997, in such disciplines as herbal medicine, massage, megavitamins, self-help groups, folk remedies, energy healing, and homeopathy. read this entry »

I was astonished, but not surprised when I went out to dinner this week and a dinner guest remarked that people abroad were now calling the BBC ‘a British Disease’.

Has the BBC has lost its way, or is it simply that they no longer own their own soul?

The in-crowd at the BBC can be accused of making news because they no longer simply report it!

They can also be accused of manipulating public opinion with their own Common Purpose, to which the general public are ’said’ to respond this way or that, but how accurate is the BBC’s portrayal of British public opinion any more? read this entry »

By Lionel Milgrom, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., M.A.R.H. The Homeopathy Research Institute 63 Vale Road London N4 1PP United Kingdom (and with thanks to Homeopathy for Everyone)

Though in use for over 200 years, and still benefiting millions of people worldwide today, homeopathy is currently under continuous attacks for being “unscientific.”

The reasons for this can be understood in terms of what might be called a “New Fundamentalism,” emanating particularly but not exclusively from within biomedicine, and supported in some sections of the media. read this entry »

HOMEOPATHY FACTS LIST – 54 FACTS (and growing!)
By Louise Mclean, LCCH MHMA at Zeus Information Service

In the last few years there have been many articles in the newspapers attacking homeopathy, claiming it contains nothing more than water, ignoring all the positive studies and saying it works through the placebo effect. So I decided to compile a list of facts to counter this criticism and present the salient points as clearly as possible.

So far I have come up with 54! read this entry »

Without Prejudice
Louise Mclean spoke to Martin J. Walker in late August about the GMC trial of Dr Andrew Wakefield. The hearing has already lasted for more than a year and is not scheduled to finish until April 2009. Martin J. Walker outside the Royal Festival Hall, London.

read this entry »

After several recent interesting conversations, and from watching TV and listening to the radio for the last 10 years (I never read the papers!), and from a purely personal point of view - am I the only person who increasingly thinks that the term ‘Anglo Saxon’ is a term of racist abuse towards the English and the Americans that has come about in the last ten years or so as a response to the Iraq war?

Or are there deeper, nastier reasons? read this entry »

Prejudice and Discrimination are umbrella terms which cover all of the following: racism, sexism, classism etc.

How many of you out there would never dream of abusing anyone because of their colour, religion, race or creed, but REALLY ENJOY defaming America, Royalty, Homeopathy, Celts, Witchcraft, terrorists, old people, red haired people, celebrities, Anglo Saxons, Hoodies, short people, tall people, fat people, folk music, Morris Dancing, mentally ill people, people with learning difficulties, physical deformities, orphans - anyone who is different in any way etc?

There is indeed a long list of people it is ‘OK’ to attack quite viciously while still claiming to be a fully paid up, card holding member of the ‘politically correct society‘? read this entry »