Quote from: lagerstarfish on June 12, 2009, 08:27:49 amNow, back to the Mail crossword - 5 letter word beginning with B ..."intolerant of or takes offence to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own"...hmmmm..."normal" doesn't fit....Would the cryptic clue be something along the lines of "Before jockeys filled in tax returns"?
Now, back to the Mail crossword - 5 letter word beginning with B ..."intolerant of or takes offence to the opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own"...hmmmm..."normal" doesn't fit....
Then why not simply subject "alternative" therapies (don't like the term myself, something either works, to an extent in some people or it doesn't*)/homeopathy to a bit of SCIENCE and test them under blinded Randomised Control Trials?
But then why not market it like that! Or at least investigate each objectively and see if there is a genuine quantifiable biological effect, and it could then be developed further and benefit more people! Those that don't you could just have listed as coded placebo tablets that are given to patients, but they're told that they will have an effect and help (could even draft up a book on it so all doctors say the same placebo tablet AR53 has a given effect for a given condition). Oh wait, thats unethical isn't, image the uproar the press, and in turn the public who then get on board with it, would have if it was discovered that the NHS was prescribing drugs that have no quantifiable effect and act through the placebo effect!!!