NHS demands legal costs from failed homeopathy challenge

[Indigophoton]

NHS England is trying to reclaim £120,000 in legal costs from a homeopathic charity as it argues that taxpayers should not pick up the tab for “tap water masquerading as medicine”.

It insists that taxpayers will not be left out of pocket as a result of a failed legal challenge from alternative medicine “vested interests” after it was awarded costs in the case. The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) said that the challenge was a “risk worth taking”, and that it would pay the fees by crowdfunding from patients who felt they had benefited from the treatment.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...ts-from-failed-homeopathy-challenge-sm80w8kjp (Soft paywall).

 

[Alvin]

Sometimes any publicity is good publicity...
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/19/15988180/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-jade-egg-debunkers

 

[adambeyoncelowe]

'Tap water masquerading as medicine'! I love it!

 

[arewenearlythereyet]

The comments below the article are highly entertaining too.

I think this news article is worth preserving in our library as a good legal example to throw back at the quacks and their followers that sometimes pop up with their cure/Internet remedy stories.

Won’t stop them peddling/believing of course but might be a quick and efficient way of giving them short shrift so they peddle elsewhere

Tagging @Woolie @Cheshire in case this is worth filing

 

[TiredSam]

Sometimes any publicity is good publicity...
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/19/15988180/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-jade-egg-debunkers

This is worth reading just for the following:

I also posed this question to Larry Light, author of Six Rules for Brand Revitalization and the chief executive of the brand consulting company Arcature. “You can’t attack a belief with facts,” he reminded me.

 

[Alvin]

This is worth reading just for the following:

Indeed, its a fundamental truth the political left has yet to learn

 

[Tom Kindlon]

 

[Woolie]

The comments below the article are highly entertaining too.

I think this news article is worth preserving in our library as a good legal example to throw back at the quacks and their followers that sometimes pop up with their cure/Internet remedy stories.

Won’t stop them peddling/believing of course but might be a quick and efficient way of giving them short shrift so they peddle elsewhere

Tagging @Woolie @Cheshire in case this is worth filing

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