{"id":52790671,"date":"2011-05-12T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lecanardnoir.posterous.com\/the-mayhem-caused-by-nightingale"},"modified":"2011-05-12T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:51:29","slug":"the-mayhem-caused-by-nightingale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-mayhem-caused-by-nightingale.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mayhem caused by Nightingale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little beauty is worth preserving, just in case someone sees a modicum of sense and removes it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>Originally <a href=\"http:\/\/homeopathyworldcommunity.com\/forum\/topics\/complaints-about-homeopaths-to\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/> Complaints About Homeopaths To The UK Advertising Standards Authority<\/p>\n<p \/>Posted by\u00a0Sue Trotter\u00a0on May 12, 2011 at 3:30am in\u00a0Social Media-Twitter-Questions-Answers-News<\/p>\n<p \/> Chatting with my husband last night about the complaints by the Advertising Standards Authority here in the UK agains homeopaths, we think we have come up with a plan to put an end to this nonsense.\u00a0We can play the race discrimination card if we get this right.\u00a0Please bear with me whilst I explain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/> If we can find some British Indians\/ Pakistanis or Bangladeshi&#039;s they can complain to the ASA explaining that homeopathy is a prefered system of medicine in their countries of origin, used to treat a wide range of illnesses. The current wave of complaints against homeopaths would therefore seem to be an attack on their culture and beliefs and therefore discriminatory. (I know homeopathy is not a belief system but many think it is, so why not use that to our advantage). If we can get figures for the numbers of people using homeopathy as their primary healthcare in India and the rest of the sub-continent, even better!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/> They can also claim that it is akin to Christians claiming that Hindus and Muslims cannot call their beliefs a religion because it is not Christianity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>If they go on to suggest that the current wave of complaints may have been instigated by someone who has an agenda that is perhaps something other than scientific (just make a suggestion and leave it to them to work out what that agenda might be).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/> We would need to get a smart lawyer to draft the letter\/s but if we could get the ASA to look at this as potential discrimination that may well decide to back off. If we can find someone on the ASA&#039;s complaint list who&#039;s family hail from the Indian sub-continent to complain they are being discrtiminated against, even better &#8230;. and if the ASA find in their favour but still go for those of us of European descent we can then go for a different race discrimination angle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/> Got to be worth a try&#8230;.. you know how twitchy we are here in the UK at the slightest sniff of racism or other discrimination!<\/p>\n<p \/>I am not sure how to co-ordinate this so have forwarded to a couple of homeopath groups and see what people think.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/> Time for homeopathy to stand up for itself !\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>with love and peace\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>Sue<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This little beauty is worth preserving, just in case someone sees a modicum of sense and removes it&#8230;Originally here. 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