blogolobRichard Dawkins gives three good reasons why alternative treatments can be effective: spending more time with patients, the soothing effect of touch and a powerful placebo effect. In her Guardian article Sue Blackmore adds another: money.
Is it too much to expect that advocates of conventional medicine and the NHS dedicate their efforts to learning from this and increasing the effectiveness of their own treatments? Taxing homeopathy or other systems that they don’t believe in to further fund the bloated NHS is not the answer.
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