Homoeopathy: Help explain it to our credulous parliamentarians!

It will be extremely helpful if as many MPs as possible continue to get letters from constituents. As you know I got the bum's rush from mine. Spread the word. Deadline is end of October, ie before the new session starts on 1st November.
 
I got around to sending mine off last week, emailed to my MP's constituency address (she'd sent out a circular which included a complaint about NHS cuts, so I was able to quote that back at her).

My email's been playing up though, and I'm not convinced that it got through. If I don't get a response, should I try sending it again, or would this be regarded as spamming if the first one actually arrived? Should I send a copy to her at the House of Commons in any case?
 
If you don't get a response in a few more days I'd try resending it with an apology in case it's a second copy. cc yourself to make sure it got sent properly.
 
Blue Bubble said:
Here's a little trick I often use if I want to be reasonably sure that a particular e-mail has been delivered:

You want to send to "[email protected]", then Bcc: it to "[email protected]". When the bogus address gets bounced, then you can pretty much be certain that the real one was delivered. As for actually having been read, that's a different matter ;)
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only try that at .parliament.uk, rather than at .G0V.uk.
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brodski said:
it is recess at the moment, they're all off on their summer holidays so they probably won't get it anyway :-)
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They nearly all have personal addresses as well as Parliament ones. Send to both if you like. They have armies of support staff to go through their emails and they have an obligation to reply to constituents. They can't just ignore questions.
 
brodski said:
But they often do.
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No, they must reply to written questions from constituents. The replies are often crap of course, but they have to reply. If your MP has a record of ignoring written questions then report them to the Parliamentary Commissioner.
 
Good luck to you all!

However, if I might inject a note of caution here...

As we all know, the fewer people that believe in homoeopathy the stronger it will get, won't it? :)

YBW
 
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Just who is telling the parliamentarians that homeopathy is untested? Maybe you all should start bombarding them with the properly conducted studies and explain why the "positive" studies are hooey.

I'm sure they must be getting their information from sources in favor of homeopathy. Now they need to know why their sources are not grounded in reality. Good studies are standardized, peer reviewed, have controls, and use double blinding. Anything else introduces biases that account for the so-called positive results.

Tell them that if they believe the bad studies are something to base laws on then they should also pass laws based on the earth being made of green cheese or other just as ridiculous hooey. Ask them how they figure water could possibly have a memory and why only water can be used to treat anything. Then ask them why anyone has to pay high prices for useless sugar in a pill that supposedly had water dropped on it.

Ask the parliamentarians for their "positive" sources of information on homeopathy.
 
Oh, and when they send letters back saying that homeopathy supposedly helped someone, ask what it supposedly helped with. Did it cure someone's cancer? Ask for proof that it did.

If they don't reply? Then tell them they should throw money at unicorn therapy since it helped you. Ask them if they want proof. Tell them you want proof homeopathy actually helped someone and how first.
 
Peter Fisher is feeling the pressure...

Queen's doctor warns of homoeopathy crisis

A leaked memo reveals that there is 'a co-ordinated campaign' to derail alternative therapies on the NHS

By Nina Lakhani
Published: 02 September 2007


The Queen's personal physician and Britain's leading homoeopath yesterday warned of a "co-ordinated campaign to derail complementary therapies in the NHS".

A leaked memo seen by The Independent on Sunday identifies several influential groups working together for the removal of homoeopathy from the NHS.

According to Dr Peter Fisher, clinical director of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, there has been a 20 per cent reduction in referrals to the hospital in the past year, as new patients are refused funding by a growing number of primary care trusts.

The hospital – an NHS centre of excellence – could be forced drastically to cut services if other PCTs introduce the same system and if funding for patients currently undergoing treatment is withdrawn.

Dr Fisher, whose patients include the supermodel Claudia Schiffer, pointed to the fact that some six million people in the UK use complementary therapies each year. Advocates include David Beckham and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Read on…

http://news.independent.co.uk:80/health/article2919644.ece
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How is it an NHS centre of excellence? Because nobody else does nothing better?
 
Good grief, it has only taken 4 months for the letter to be leaked! Perhaps when Fisher is retired he will stop using it as a term of abuse. And I am not retired. Mind you I'm not a professor either :( . Seriously though, articles like this make the effort so worth while :) .
 
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