Medicine
Normal medicines: multimillion pound lengthy trials, strict regulation, years of training, effective treatment available free at point of need. Result - everyone berates the NHS and there's a huge outcry when things don't work or have side effects, say they need more testing, regulation, etc.

Alternative medicine: call yourself "Doctor", add random letters after your name, tell everyone that people in the East have been cramming live earwigs into their rectums since the year dot, charge people a f**king fortune for the privilege. Result: loved by all as "holistic" and "caring", can't put a foot wrong, get official government certification for £45.

OK, yes, it's a bugbear of mine.

Here's some more hypocrisy: I hate people who spam in the forums, but sign my petition anyway, B3tard minions.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 13:43, 9 replies)

*clicky*
couldn't actually be possible for me to agree any more than i do with this.

frankly, anyone who wants to use homeopathy and the like can fuck off back to the dark ages and die of a preventable disease, leaving me to enjoy the fruits of modern medicine.

And the same goes to people who refuse to vaccinate their children. piss off to a leper colony, you bunch of selfish, hemp chewing cunts.

And relax.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:26, closed)

Hey, I wonder if that'd work
Have the NHS- and the private "proper" medical establishment, and have the homeopathic bunch. But have them work entirely separately- and you can only sign up to ONE.
No NHS or private healthcare for you if you go homeopathic, no homeopathic if you choose NHS/private.

Of course, homeopathic remedies are permitted as soon as they can pass very basic tests of better-than-placebo positive effects and no / limited / pleasent side effects.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:46, closed)

Private companies can do what they want
But don't waste taxpayers money on snake oil.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:47, closed)

Alternative name
There's a name for alternative interventions that have passed these tests. They're called "medicine".
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:53, closed)

Yes!
People who get all "but I'm just not sure" about vaccinations. I bet virtually all of them were given vaccinations when they were young which is why so few of them died of fucking measles!
(Bazongaloid, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 15:26, closed)

The MMR thing does cause me to rage
Every single scientific peer-reviewed investigation comes out with the following:

Vaccines have risks
Not being vaccinated carried greater risks

Now stop being a bunch of cunts before there's enough unvaccinated kids to have a measles epidemic.
( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:11, closed)

I agree with you a bit
But I don't see the point in regulation. Personally I recommend a Darwinian approach, using the ineffectiveness of alternative medicine to thin the human herd of gullible time wasters.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:46, closed)

Problem
Is that the "gullible time-wasters" are also known as "voters" and will "vote" to spend your hard-earned tax money on "gullible time wasting" instead of proper medicine.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:52, closed)

It's selective perception
Think of the NHS like an A-grade student who fucks up sometimes and think of alternative medicine as a waster who has a rare moment of genius. When something we expect great performance from sometimes goes wrong, there's big outrage directed at it. When something we expect fuck all from turns out to do something right, massive praise all round!

I'm sure anyone with a sibling knows how that works.
(Brigadier Arthur Charles, Mrs, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:39, closed)