Subscribe RSSI’ve been a martyr to Schadenfreude all my sustenance. And it’s bad at the moment, it really is. First, as I may have mentioned before, the most shameless fraudster in British journalism has been exposed. ( Hilarious works at Leveson this week about how the Independent plans to “watch” young Hari when he returns, to secure sure he doesn’t tell lies.) Second, the European project is being pulled apart by the failure of its wordplay currency. And now – Mr Ambassador! You are really spoiling us! – the snake oil merchants of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) are being given a kicking by the Lefties who old to be their fiercest defenders.
As The Daily Telegraph reported last week , from this year, it will no longer be possible to study homoeopathy to lengths level in a British university, thanks to a lack of demand. Indeed, the number of “degrees” in reflexology, aromatherapy, acupuncture and homoeopathy has halved since 2007.
Let me sketch the place as it was five years ago, without singling out any of the greedy shysters involved – they’ve all lost a fortune over the collapse of this market and are spending their left over funds harassing journalists. Basically, best-selling authors of books claiming you could cure cancer with rhino horn suppositories were allowed to cook up courses at third-rate universities. This was good news for everyone except a) taxpayers, b) anyone who cares about science teaching and c) cancer sufferers.
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