Comments on: The Holistic Prince and Mental Health http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/2009/02/24/the-holistic-prince-and-mental-health/ Responding to and stimulating debate about the many subjects that interest and drive the large, diverse, and intellectually hungry medical humanities community. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:38:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alanna http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/2009/02/24/the-holistic-prince-and-mental-health/#comment-30 Alanna Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:33:48 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/?p=27#comment-30 I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Alanna http://www.craigslisthelper.info I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

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]]> By: Alternative Medicine - HolisticMeds.info http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/2009/02/24/the-holistic-prince-and-mental-health/#comment-26 Alternative Medicine - HolisticMeds.info Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:50:17 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/?p=27#comment-26 [...] Skepdude wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFor a slightly more jaundiced view of alternative medicine in general David Colquhoun’s blog is well worth a look. Posted in EBMH notebook, alternative, complementary. Email This Post. Respond. Print page … [...] [...] Skepdude wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFor a slightly more jaundiced view of alternative medicine in general David Colquhoun’s blog is well worth a look. Posted in EBMH notebook, alternative, complementary. Email This Post. Respond. Print page … [...]

]]> By: David Colquhoun http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/2009/02/24/the-holistic-prince-and-mental-health/#comment-25 David Colquhoun Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:37:10 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk/?p=27#comment-25 Thanks for the link, but I would maintain that my view isn't jaundiced but based on the evidence. My style on the blog, I'd agree, more journalistic than one would employ in a scientific journal, but one is trying to write for a wide audience (and in any case, even in science, there is a lot to be said for plain words). It often seems to me that discussions of alternative medicine are blunted by excessive use of euphemisms. No doubt it is good in general not to want to hurt the feelings of homeopaths and other people who advocate, often quite sincerely, forms of treatment that don't work. But one must consider the patients too. I cannot explain the tendency of the Department of Health (and Skills for Health and half a dozen other quangos) to turn to the Prince of Wales for answers about alternative medicine. Apart from the dubious quality of the advice they get, the direct and vigorous interference of the Royal Family in trying the change public policy seems to be quite unconstitutional. At least it can supply some amusement, as when I asked Skills for Health whether they would be issuing a "competence" in talking to trees, I was told, in all seriousness, that I should ask LANTRA, the land-based skills council about that (read the transcript at http://dcscience.net/?p=215#sfh Thanks for the link, but I would maintain that my view isn’t jaundiced but based on the evidence. My style on the blog, I’d agree, more journalistic than one would employ in a scientific journal, but one is trying to write for a wide audience (and in any case, even in science, there is a lot to be said for plain words).

It often seems to me that discussions of alternative medicine are blunted by excessive use of euphemisms. No doubt it is good in general not to want to hurt the feelings of homeopaths and other people who advocate, often quite sincerely, forms of treatment that don’t work. But one must consider the patients too.

I cannot explain the tendency of the Department of Health (and Skills for Health and half a dozen other quangos) to turn to the Prince of Wales for answers about alternative medicine. Apart from the dubious quality of the advice they get, the direct and vigorous interference of the Royal Family in trying the change public policy seems to be quite unconstitutional.

At least it can supply some amusement, as when I asked Skills for Health whether they would be issuing a “competence” in talking to trees, I was told, in all seriousness, that I should ask LANTRA, the land-based skills council about that (read the transcript at http://dcscience.net/?p=215#sfh

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