Saturday 13 March 2010

Cure This

With even Ann Widdecombe and the DUP now defending homeopathy, by signing a motion whose Unconservative sponsor tried to charge to expenses a computer program to predict his future health by means of astrology, any suggestions as to my promised theological-philosophical critique of "like cures like"?

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  1. Mr Lindsay, you ask the following: "any suggestions as to my promised theological-philosophical critique of 'like cures like'?"

    Yes, Mr Lindsay, I have such a suggestion. It comprises considering the implications of the two most terrifying words in the current English language: "Big Pharma".

    I have no particular brief for homeopathy or for alternative medicine in general. It is just that I hate it less than I hate the mainstream medical establishment that gave us (a) the American Psychiatric Association's depathologising of buggery through that sure-fire clinical method known as a majority vote; (b) the publication of "scientific" reports on the basis of no criteria whatsoever except the "scientists"' financial interests in the drugs being assessed; (c) the great lie that is ADHD; (d) the great lie that is modern bipolar disorder; (e) involuntary lobotomies; (f) involuntary leucotomies; (g) the Tuskegee Institute, which deliberately withheld anti-syphilis treatment rather than allow blacks to get any of it ... I could go on, but you get my point. (In any case, you have yourself rightly deplored (c) and (d).)

    Even John Cornwell, whose anti-Pius-XII trash proclaimed him to be a front-runner in any fantasist-of-the-20th-century stakes, knew better than to defend Big Pharma's involvement in the Prozac racket. (See his book The Power To Harm, which is actually quite good.)

    Rather than endorse the neo-Mengele mentality which propels Big Pharma and its minions, I think I'd be prepared, on a caveat emptor basis, to take my chances with some silly hippy-dippy quack.

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