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Homeopathy – right royal quack medicine
PETER FROST was delighted when the Advertising Standards Agency banned homeopaths offering to cure autism
ULTIMATE CON: This bottle is labelled Arnica montana (wolf’s bane) D6 ie the nominal dilution is one part in a million and (right) Samuel Hahnemann
[Arnica pic: Abalg/Creative Commons]
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
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RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
Speaking in Belfast some years ago the chair of the meeting handsomely sang my praises as a Morning Star columnist, but there was a sting in the tail of his introduction. “The only thing Peter gets wrong,” he declared “is his attitude to homeopathy.”
I’ve never had any time for this particular form of quack medicine and never more than now when many homeopathic so-called doctors are offering to cure autism. Parents of autistic children understand that this isn’t a disease to be cured but a condition making children different but not ill.
The good news is that the Advertising Standards Agency has made such adverts illegal.
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