{"id":820,"date":"2008-01-03T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/wpblog\/2008\/01\/the-homeopath-at-the-ataraxia-theatre.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T17:52:00","slug":"homeopath-at-ataraxia-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/homeopath-at-ataraxia-theatre.html","title":{"rendered":"The Homeopath at the Ataraxia Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I am sure you are aware, the marketing departments in pharmaceutical companies employ hoards of cartoonists to mock the alternative medicine industrty, alledgedly.<\/p>\n

Here is the latest attempt to reduce the grand holistic arts to beano style ridicule. Joseph Hewitt’s Ataraxia Theatre<\/a> obviously has a thing going on about homeopaths. His latest scribble is a beautifully observed mocking of the absurdity of homeopathy<\/a>. Joseph Hewitt is an English teacher living in South Korea. He likes iced tea and he says,<\/p>\n

If you know me, and I know a few of you do, you’ll know that the thing I hate most in this world is quack medicine. I have nothing but contempt for those who make their living fleecing money from the desperate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also refers to me as an ‘internet celebrity’ which is why I am plugging him here.<\/p>\n

Which brings me onto an aside: I did not do a review of my last year of the Quackometer. Maybe I should have done. Lots happened and my readership has gone through the roof since I became an ‘internet celebrity’. There is only one person I could thank for that and so I dedicate this cartoon to this person and give a special Quackometer ‘Services to Stamping out Quackery’ Award to Paula Ross, Chief Executive of the Society of Homeopaths. Thanks for all you did for me last year. If this was a real awards ceremony, now would be time for tearful hugs and the handing over of a crystal glass duck trophy. I couldn’t have done it without you.<\/p>\n

May 2008 be an even more exciting year! Happy New Year to all visitors to my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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