Brains falling out...
Read this and weep..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1414920,00.html
The royal thinktank, at arms-length from the NHS bureaucracy and the brainchild of a notoriously independent and outspoken enthusiast, advocates health treatments that often appear to patients more personal and less institutionalised than those offered by conventional medicine, even though there may often be lack of "scientific proof" for their efficacy. Now the government is encouraging broader use under the politically attractive banner of more choice for the consumer, while at the same time softening the old image of a state bureaucracy with no interest in alternatives to conventional medical wisdom.
So why the scare quotes? Do our friends at the Grauniad know of some higher and more meaningful kind of proof?
"Last year, there was one trial suggesting aromatherapy only worked if the patient thought it worked. The conventional scientists would say therefore it doesn't work but that is the wrong conclusion. The conclusion is a complementary therapy works for those who believe in it."
Ah yes, and the Giant, invisible, omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent Pumpkin exists for those who believe in it. UPCHUCK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1414920,00.html
The royal thinktank, at arms-length from the NHS bureaucracy and the brainchild of a notoriously independent and outspoken enthusiast, advocates health treatments that often appear to patients more personal and less institutionalised than those offered by conventional medicine, even though there may often be lack of "scientific proof" for their efficacy. Now the government is encouraging broader use under the politically attractive banner of more choice for the consumer, while at the same time softening the old image of a state bureaucracy with no interest in alternatives to conventional medical wisdom.
So why the scare quotes? Do our friends at the Grauniad know of some higher and more meaningful kind of proof?
"Last year, there was one trial suggesting aromatherapy only worked if the patient thought it worked. The conventional scientists would say therefore it doesn't work but that is the wrong conclusion. The conclusion is a complementary therapy works for those who believe in it."
Ah yes, and the Giant, invisible, omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent Pumpkin exists for those who believe in it. UPCHUCK.
posted by MikeS at 2:50 pm
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