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Why the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) can’t succeed (in which DC gets fired)

August 11th, 2010 · 18 Comments

Jump to follow-up Yesterday I was fired from the Conduct and Competence Committee of the CNHC. That is the organisation that was very quickly dubbed Ofquack in the blogosphere.  So now I am free to write what I like about about it. It has now become clear that voluntary self-regulation can not work. Recent events [...]

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Tags: CNHC · National Occupational Standards · Prince Charles · Prince of Wales · Prince's Foundation · Skills for Health · reflexology · regulation

St Bartholomew’s teaches antiscience, but students revolt

December 9th, 2008 · 17 Comments

Jump to follow-up It may be only post-1992 universities that run degrees in nonsense, but you can find plenty even in the highest places. Like St Bartholomew’s (founded in 1123).  That well known source of misleading medical advice, The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health (FiH), published last March, “Teaching integrated health at Barts and the [...]

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Tags: Academia · Barts · Barts and the London · CAM · Chris Fowler · Greenwich Natural Health · HRH · Mark Carroll · Prince Charles · Prince of Wales · Prince's Foundation · St Bartholomew's · Universities · Warrier · acupuncture · assessment · ayurveda · badscience · homeopathy · hot stone · nutrition · nutritional therapy · reflexology · supplements

Quackery creeps into good universities too -but through Human Resources

October 6th, 2008 · 66 Comments

Jump to follow-up We know all about the sixteen or so universities that run “BSc” degrees in hokum. They are all “post-1992″ universities, which used to be polytechnics. That is one reason why it saddens me to see them destroying their own attempts to achieve parity with older universities by running courses that I would [...]

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Tags: Academia · Dangerous advice · HR bollocks · Human resources · Leicester university · SCENAR · Universities · acupuncture · antiscience · corporate · managerialism · reflexology