{"id":717,"date":"2007-03-09T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/wpblog\/2007\/03\/hideous-quackery.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T18:40:00","slug":"hideously-quacky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/hideously-quacky.html","title":{"rendered":"Hideous Quackery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/katew-740494.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/katew-731748.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It pains me to write this, but I have a nasty feeling that Kate Winslet might have been to visit a quack. I guess I ought to be careful as she has just won a &#8216;substantial&#8217; settlement from Grazia magazine after they printed outrageous allegations that she had been to visit a &#8216;diet doctor&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Now to be fair to Kate, she has been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6166951.stm\">outspoken<\/a>, and rightly so, over the media&#8217;s obsession with stick-thin models and actresses. The thought that she was overly concerned with her weight might make her look like a hypocrite. The magazine has now fully accepted that she went to the clinic over a &#8216;neck problem&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What has been missed out by the press is that this clinic is <a href=\"http:\/\/chinesehealinginstitute.com\/\">The Chinese Healing Institute <\/a>on Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/?url=http%3a%2f%2fchinesehealinginstitute%2ecom%2f\">9 Canards<\/a>). The clinic appears to specialise in acupuncture and &#8216;herbology&#8217;. I wonder just how that neck problem was treated? I really hope it was one of Dr Pan&#8217;s special massages.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Kate. I love you. I love your work, and I wished we had married. And I also support your stand on weight issues. But, how about taking a stand on other aspects of clear thinking about health and science?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It pains me to write this, but I have a nasty feeling that Kate Winslet might have been to visit a quack. I guess I <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/hideously-quacky.html\" title=\"Hideous Quackery?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[43],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-celebrity-quackery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}