Let’s run with an idea and see where it goes.
The 10:23 campaign has now had loads of publicity and Boots have failed to address any of the central concerns: mainly, that homeopathy is a daft pseudoscience. Moreover, the pharmacy profession and the drugs regulator have remained silent.
In all likelihood, Boots will not withdraw...
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Posts Tagged ‘ boots the chemist ’
Dispensing with Homeopathy: A Proposal
Boots Giving Away Worthless Therapies
Thanks to Lee Warren, the Purple Magician, who saw this in King’s Cross, London.
Trust Boots to be complete idiots.
Double Idiots.
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The Dilemma of Finding Reliable Health Advice Online
A press release today from the Economic and Social Research Council talks about recent research on how the public evaluates the information on health websites. The concluding message is simple:
When searching for health advice online, consumers often reject websites with high quality medical information in favour of those with a human touch.
This is not...
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Boots the Quack
I have recently been accused of working for the ‘drug industry’ and just picking on the ‘little guys’ who are using gentle, more human, and less capitalist healing methods. Well, as I say in my definition of quackery, quack thinking can come from all quarters and all sides of the orthodox/alternative medicine camps.
‘Big Pharma’...
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