Science and Nonsense

The latest edition of “nhe” or to give it’s full title National Health Executive magazine, who’s claim is “the essential guide to health service management” is an editorial deriding the current call by the BMA Junior Doctors to have homeopathy taken out of the NHS.
The author, presumably the editor Stephen Lewis (editorial@nationalhealthexecutive.com) seems to be quite deluded and confused about a number of the issues. His arguments culminate with two quite startling sentences. I leave you to judge this man’s capabilities with his own words.

“The real test of efficacy is not whether or not there is evidence that something works but whether or not it can and does work, even though it shouldn’t.”

“A bigger problem in the NHS is the appalling waste in the drugs budget and the cost of dealing with the harm drugs do to thousands of patients in the UK.”

The man’s a loon, the mag’s in the bin.

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Iconoclast, recently lost all sanity, shaved moustache off after 33 years and still getting used to it, taken up fell running of sorts. Interests: Mountaineering, food, cooking, people, friends, politics, education, photography, thinking, kites, making people laugh, fell running, adventure running. Favourite Films: The Long Good Friday, Laurence of Arabia, Thomas Crown Affair, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Slumdog Millionaire, Fargo, anything by Poliakoff. Favourite Music: Jazz, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Joss Stone, Dido, Dave Brubek, John Coltrain, Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen Favourite Books: The Unconsoled, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The White Spider, Touching the Void
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