{"id":30422181,"date":"2010-10-13T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lecanardnoir.posterous.com\/just-bought-new-statesman-and-it-pains-me-i-m"},"modified":"2010-10-13T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:12:00","slug":"just-bought-new-statesman-and-it-pains-me-i-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/just-bought-new-statesman-and-it-pains-me-i-m.html","title":{"rendered":"Just bought New Statesman and it pains me I may have to write to the ASA about a homeopath ad: you may too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This month’s New Statesman (Oct 2010) carries a full page ad for the homeopathy propaganda group H:MC21. It was contained with a supplement about Social Care.<\/p>\n

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Christine Odone did not like the advert. She wrote about it <\/a>in the Telegraph yesterday.<\/div>\n

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Naturally it is untruthful, irresponsible and misleading, and as such, and as a thoughtful member of society, I must forward on the advert to the Advertising Standards Authority. I am going to ask the ASA to make H:MC21 justify each of the statements they make with evidence. <\/div>\n

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Here is the online complaints<\/a> form.<\/div>\n

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If you wish to make a complaint to, you may find the full text handily given on the H:MC21 web site here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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And just in case they remove the page: here it is below.<\/div>\n

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Homeopathy Cares<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Homeopathy has a history of success in chronic illness<\/div>\n
• <\/span>At Bristol Homeopathic Hospital 70.7% of 6,500 patients with chronic conditions <\/div>\n
     benefited from homeopathic treatment and had reduced need for conventional <\/div>\n
     medication. [1] <\/div>\n
• <\/span>Other clinical outcome studies indicate similar levels of benefit, and more randomised controlled <\/div>\n
     trials are positive than negative. For more see www.britishhomeopathic.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n
• <\/span>In Cuba an integrated approach to healthcare has led to homeopathy being used to enable 2.3 <\/div>\n
     million people, including the elderly, to be cheaply and effectively protected against endemic <\/div>\n
     Leptospirosis. [2]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>About 6 million people in the UK choose homeopathy despite the fact that for the vast majority this <\/div>\n
     means that they have to pay for their treatment. [3]<\/div>\n

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Homeopathy offers a caring alternative<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The NHS spends £11 billion annually on conventional drugs out of a budget of £100 billion, and this <\/div>\n
     cost keeps rising, as there is an increasing need to treat long-term conditions. [4]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>Only 0.001% of the NHS drugs budget is spent on homeopathic medicines, but these are mainly <\/div>\n
     used to treat patients with chronic health problems who have not been helped, despite great cost, by <\/div>\n
     conventional means. [5,6]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The NHS also spends £2 billion annually on treating the adverse side effects of conventional drugs. <\/div>\n
     Homeopathy has no side effects. [7]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>Even a small increase in spending on homeopathy could produce dramatic benefits, reducing care <\/div>\n
     needs and increasing patient quality of life. <\/div>\n

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Opposition to homeopathy is based on propaganda<\/div>\n
• <\/span>Homeopathy has a growing evidence base, but according to the British Medical Journal, of the 2,500 <\/div>\n
     most commonly used treatments in the NHS, 51% have unknown effectiveness, and only 11% have <\/div>\n
     been shown to be beneficial.[8,9]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The leading so-called ‘expert’ and critic of homeopathy, Professor Edzard Ernst, has admitted that he <\/div>\n
     has no qualifications in homeopathy.[10]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The leading organisation opposing homeopathy, Sense About Science, is funded by pharmaceutical <\/div>\n
     companies and relies on a strategy of propaganda stunts rather than scientific research.[11,12]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The leading popular book critical of homeopathy (Trick or Treatment?) has been shown to be <\/div>\n
     scientifically unreliable. It was co-authored by Simon Singh (a trustee of Sense About Science) and <\/div>\n
     Professor Ernst.[13]<\/div>\n
• <\/span>The recent Science and Technology Committee report on homeopathy was voted for by only three <\/div>\n
     MPs. Of these only one attended the hearings and he has strong links to Sense About Science (Dr <\/div>\n
     Evan Harris).[14,15,16]<\/div>\n

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A vision for an economic and effective medical future<\/div>\n
H:MC21 believes that the NHS should increase the integration of homeopathic practitioners into front-line healthcare whilst monitoring both clinical and cost benefits.<\/div>\n

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H:MC21 believes that, by sharing clinical experience and skills in this way, homeopathic and conventional practitioners can provide the safest, most economic and most effective service to patients.<\/div>\n

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H:MC21 believes that this will allow the NHS to confirm the benefits of homeopathy in the real world of clinical practice. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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