{"id":30519916,"date":"2010-10-14T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lecanardnoir.posterous.com\/a-complaint-to-the-society-of-homeopaths-abou"},"modified":"2010-10-14T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:24:00","slug":"a-complaint-to-the-society-of-homeopaths-abou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/a-complaint-to-the-society-of-homeopaths-abou.html","title":{"rendered":"A complaint to the Society of Homeopaths about the H:MC21 ad might be innevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterdays complaint to the ASA regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/lecanardnoir.posterous.com\/just-bought-new-statesman-and-it-pains-me-i-m\">this ad<\/a>, a complaint to the Society of Homeopaths really ought to be the only thing a concerned citizen could do.<\/p>\n<div>William Alderson is Chair and Treasurer of HMC21. He is also a Director of the Society of Homeopaths.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Their code of ethics is quite clear on the standards they expect in advertising.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote style=\"margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0;\">\n<div>\n<div><strong>Advertising and Media<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<div>38 All advertising must be published in a way that conforms to the law and to (the&nbsp;guidance issued in the British Code of Advertising Practice).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<div>39 Professional advertising must be factual and not seek to mislead or deceive, or&nbsp;make unrealistic or extravagant claims. Advertising may indicate special&nbsp;interests but must not make claims of superiority or disparage professional&nbsp;colleagues or other professionals. No promise of cure, either implicit or explicit,&nbsp;should be made of any named disease. All research should be presented clearly&nbsp;honestly and without distortion, all speculative theories will be stated as such&nbsp;and clearly distinguished.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we shall wait and see what the ASA make of the advert, but my guess is that every single clause here has been breached.<\/p>\n<div>What would the Society do?<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Don&#8217;t hold your breath.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After yesterdays complaint to the ASA regarding this ad, a complaint to the Society of Homeopaths really ought to be the only thing a concerned citizen could do. William Alderson is Chair and Treasurer of HMC21. He is also a Director of the Societ&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30519916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30519916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30519916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30519916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30519916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30519916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30519916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}