Two weeks left to stop the Department of Health making a fool of itself. Email your response to tne Pittilo consultation to this email address HRDListening@dh.gsi.gov.uk I’ve had permission to post a submission that has been sent to the Pittilo consultation. The whole document can be downloaded here. I have removed the name of the [...]
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An excellent submission to the consultation on statutory regulation of alternative medicine (Pittilo report)
October 13th, 2009 · 9 Comments
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Another worthless validation: the University of Wales and nutritional therapy
October 14th, 2008 · 30 Comments
Jump to follow-up It seems that validation committees often don’t look beyond the official documents. As a result, the validations may not be worth the paper they are written on. Try this one. One of the best bits of news recently was the downfall of Matthias Rath. He’s the man who peddled vitamin pills for AIDS [...]
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