{"id":127,"date":"2009-05-29T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T08:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T08:13:25","slug":"ask-a-homeopath-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/05\/29\/ask-a-homeopath-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Homeopath a Question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> has a feature in its &#8220;Ethical Living&#8221; feature called &#8220;You Ask, They Answer&#8221;.\u00a0 This provides a forum in which readers can put questions to firms, people and so on. \u00a0This week, the subject was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealsyardremedies.com\/\">Neal&#8217;s Yard Remedies<\/a>, purveyor of&#8230; um&#8230; &#8220;remedies&#8221; to the kind of people who go in for aromatherapy and homeopathy and the belief that natural is best because there are no CHEMICALS in nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/ethicallivingblog\/2009\/may\/26\/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies?showallcomments=true\">The grilling supplied by readers is impressive and heartening<\/a>. \u00a0A lot of it is along the lines of &#8220;Why do you sell pointless crap and, in doing so, undermine the scientific method, spout <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_Bullshit\">bullshit<\/a>, and potentially put people&#8217;s health in danger?&#8221; \u00a0(I&#8217;m simplifying a bit, but the gist&#8217;s about right.)<\/p>\n<p>NYR&#8217;s response is&#8230; well, it isn&#8217;t. \u00a0They don&#8217;t seem to want to play any more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/ethicallivingblog\/2009\/may\/26\/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies?commentid=eee6793f-b713-4340-96a2-8d103463713e\">and won&#8217;t be answering<\/a>. \u00a0Or maybe the answers have been provided but, in the best tradition of homeopathy, not in any detectable way.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a feature in its &#8220;Ethical Living&#8221; feature called &#8220;You Ask, They Answer&#8221;.\u00a0 This provides a forum in which readers can put questions to firms, people and so on. \u00a0This week, the subject was Neal&#8217;s Yard Remedies, purveyor of&#8230; um&#8230; &#8220;remedies&#8221; to the kind of people who go in for aromatherapy and homeopathy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/05\/29\/ask-a-homeopath-a-question\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios","category-resource"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}