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UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows
An anonymous reader writes: The UK's Labour Party is currently led by Jeremy Corbyn, who has shown support for homeopathy in the past. So has Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. (So-called 'shadow' posts in the UK government essentially comprise an alternative Cabinet with positions held by party members in opposition to the party in power.) Now, homeopathy seems to have additional support from the newly-appointed shadow health minister, Heidi Alexander. "I know lots of people who know about benefits of homeopathy. Whether it's the right use of public money is another thing altogether. I'm open to hearing the argument as to why people may think it appropriate."
Since it's owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere via DMG Media it's not surprising that it has a right wing bias.
You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare. Keep swallowing the misinformation and lies fed to you by the commercial interests in US healthcare and you get the health system you deserve.
Yeah, it's almost as if there were no history of Russian expansionism going back to Peter the Great and stuff.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Someone asked her about homeopathy, she ducked the question. She was far from enthusiastic about it, but said she would be open to hearing arguments about it - which is what politicians say when they have no clue what their policy is and don't want to answer the question. She should have been decisive and said that the NHS should not ever fund anything that does not outperform a placebo and has no plausible theory of action, but she didn't, yet. This failure to respond to the question is now being spun, and slashdot is getting in on the action too. Maybe if she ever actually takes a position on homeopathy then there will be a story to report, but right now, @heidi_mp has not really done anything other than duck a question.
This is the most stupid thing I have read, even more stupid than the article itself, today. Congrats.
Protip, the NHS is one of the best healthcare systems in the world, in the top 5. (I think it was 3rd, the other 2 countries ahead of it spending more money per person)
Whereas private healthcare-driven countries are some of the worst in the modern world.
The US for example, the "king" of private healthcare, is the worst and most expensive of all modern countries. Shocking! Call the presses!
State-sponsored healthcare protects people from the bullshit that big pharma like to pull for a quick buck.
Now it is being perverted by those Conservative twats in power now, who have destroyed the NHS in England and then have the CHEEK to complain about it not working 24/7, even though it does! FUCK Tory Scum.
But now that Labour has this moron heading their party, there is no real competition to Conservatives.
SNP is pretty much Scottish only, Lib Dems are still hilarious, Green party too, UKIP are too "racist" for a large number of people.
BRB, literally leaving the UK, it is all shit from here on out. Nothing good will come of the UK now.
So now even Slashdot lazily swallows and unquestioningly regurgitates a smear against Labour?
True, What we have is a "noncommittal answer" ... not a surprising thing in a day old cabinet when policies have not been determined. And its not as if any other party has announced a policy that homeopathy is unscientific and won't be funded. As others have pointed out it may not even make sense to do so, as homeopathy is a cheap placebo ... and if that avoids more expensive treatments for some people then that has to be good.
Even the Guardian is doing it. The shadow cabinet is 50% female but apparently there aren't enough women in 'top jobs'.
Nobody was talking about letting Ukraine join the EU. They're way far away from meeting the standards, and as it stands, a lot of people think that even letting states like Hungary in was a mistake. What was being offered was a trade pact.
Here's a quite detailed history of the negotiations and where things went awry, from both sides. Basically, the EU handed Yanukovych a set of economics calculations showing the huge amount of money that would flow into Ukraine, and the conditions they had to meet to get it. They were never really open to negotiation, convinced that the amount of windfall was all that mattered, and they'd fall in line on the conditions. "Vast amounts of money flowing into the country" certainly appealed to ostrich wrangler Yanukovych, but the main sticking point early on was his political prosecution of former prime minister (and Princess Leia impersonator) Yulia Tymoshenko. The EU was quite confident that he'd fall in line in order to get the windfall from the trade membership, and they also didn't see how it was any matter of Russia's what Ukraine, a sovereign state, decided to do on its own, and thus how they even were relevant to the negotiations. It was a pretty haughty position, but if was a quite passive position. Everything Yanukovych tried to change about the deal was rebuffed - it was a "take it or leave it" situation, with the EU fully convinced that the "take it" answer would arrive any day. Russia first tried imposing counterpressure on Ukraine with an economic carrot and stick approach, but this approved not enough to derail the negotiations - although left the Ukrainian side increasingly rebuffed trying to get further concessions from the EU to compensate it. However, the sudden and unexpected reversal came after a relatively brief meeting between Yanukovych and Putin. What was said at that meeting is anyone's guess - although how far Russia was willing to go to keep Ukraine from drawing closer to the EU has been made abundantly clear since then.
"This administration is so incompetent that they cover their tracks with bigger tracks." - Seth Meyers
Homeopathic medicine is fucking water, that's it, plain old water. You may get some minor placebo benefits from drinking magic water, but literally ANYTHING (including real medicine) can act as a placebo if the patient has blind faith it will work.The problem here is that the vast majority of politicians do not understand how to research an everyday scientific question, which is ironic because they all claim to follow science based policy. The real problem is the don't need to understand the philosophy of science to get elected because the vast majority of the electorate either don't understand it, or don't appreciate its utility.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Trickle-down economics is a joke.
No, literally, it started off as a joke by an American humourist, Will Rogers, who said of President Hoover's recovery efforts
money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes it would trickle down to the needy.
But the notion that prosperity for the rich leads to prosperity for everyone is no straw man - it's a well known part of right wing policy.
Islet cell neuroendocrine tumor has very long average survival time if caught early (like Jobs' was) and treated properly (which Jobs' wasn't). Not just a couple years - over a decade. And that's for regular folk, not for people who count among the wealthiest individuals on Earth and can afford the best care on the planet. These tumors are so passive that 10% of autopsied patients in the general public are found to have had a gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor without ever knowing, and 30% of the tumors are so good at maintaining their original function that there's debate over whether to even call them "cancer". Insulinomas are anything but a virulent form - but they can spread if left to fester. Jobs' cancer was caught very early on, and by all standards he should have had a very long life expectancy had he actually gone with actual medical treatment advised by his doctors (as well as his friends and family). Instead, he committed "suicide by woo", letting it fester until it become something actually bad and hard to remove completely. Something that he deeply regretted later.
"This administration is so incompetent that they cover their tracks with bigger tracks." - Seth Meyers
Note the frauds who sold him, and a million others, known ineffectual treatment in place of real treatment, are not rotting in jail.
That is the problem.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
FALSE, if it's detectable, it's still far too concentrated for homeopathy.
roman_mir, I'm pretty certain the majority of the Slashdot readership would say it's you who is insane.