Don't know if this counts
I work for the NHS doing clinical IT system management. A couple of years ago, I got a request through to make some changes to a clinic on one of the systems I look after.

For the homeopathy service.

I expressed my dismay to my colleague that the NHS was wasting money on what amounts to giving the patient a sugar-pill, crossing your fingers and saying "please work, please work!"

Now, my colleague was not far off retirement and had been a nurse for most of his life, he was pretty much the senior nurse for the entire city. So I expected his opinion to match mine.

Instead I got a 20 minute lecture on how it works, why it works and how I'm completely wrong to believe it doesn't.
(ScousersPet, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 9:29, 6 replies)

Homeopathy TOTALLY cured my Hypocondria!
pfft
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 10:16, closed)

Generally speaking nurses are fucking dumb.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 31 Aug 2012, 10:29, closed)

Agreed. They are generally the cause of IT systems failing to be accepted. Them or the misanthropic cunts who work on doctors receptions.
(skgorsky, Fri 31 Aug 2012, 12:14, closed)

If homeopathy is right, then the entire theory of thermodynamics, and the 10,000 years of practical observations that it's built upon, are wrong.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 1 Sep 2012, 20:40, closed)

Arguably it does work a bit
But only due to the placebo effect. Strangely the placebo effect works even if you tell people they're getting a placebo.
(Eukanuba, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:41, closed)

This can be very cosy effective,
so having homeopathy on the NHS isn't a totally terrible idea.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:21, closed)