{"id":32813288,"date":"2010-11-07T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lecanardnoir.posterous.com\/what-has-happened-to-society-of-homeopaths-di"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:27:00","slug":"what-has-happened-to-society-of-homeopaths-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/what-has-happened-to-society-of-homeopaths-di.html","title":{"rendered":"What has happened to Society of Homeopaths Director William Alderson?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in the New Statesman Magazine, an article by Edzard Ernst will be appearing that responds to a dreadfully misleading advert by the homeopathic charity HMC21.<\/p>\n

Ernst will say,<\/div>\n

I was shocked by an advertisement in the accompanying supplement, “Social Care: Who Pays?”, referring to me and my work. Rarely had I seen an advert so inaccurate and borderline libellous in a respected publication. The advert, which appeared to breach the British Code of Advertising, was by a lobby group called Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century (H:MC21). It contained unjustified attacks on myself and colleagues, including statements that gave a dangerously false impression of homoeopathy’s therapeutic value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That advert is now in the hands of the Advertising Standards Authority.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
William Alderson is Chair and Treasurer of HMC21. Until a few days ago, he was listed as a Director of the Society of Homeopaths, and a member of their professional standards committee.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Board of Directors Profiles<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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William Alderson RSHom<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

William was voted on to the Board of Directors at the 2010 Annual General Meeting, and is a member of the Professional Standards Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

Having first turned to homeopathic treatment when conventional medicine failed to help, William’s interest was stimulated by the discovering that there was a coherent theory underpinning his successful treatment. For the next 18 years he read about both homeopathy and orthodox medicine, finally training as a homeopath. He qualified from the London School of Classical Homeopathy in 2005. A paper based on his final year dissertation was published in Homeopathic Links in 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

There is now no mention of Alderson. What could have happened? Have the Society removed him as a Director? Or are they just removing information about him ahead of the innevitable repurcussions?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.homeopathy-soh.org\/about-the-society\/Bod.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Companies House list William Alderson’s appointment as a director, but not his removal. Curiouser and curiouser… http:\/\/bit.ly\/bvDXlY<\/a><\/p>\n

I do wish I was a fly on the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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