{"id":2113,"date":"2007-11-17T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/11\/its_a_kind_of_m\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:26:30","slug":"its_a_kind_of_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/its_a_kind_of_m\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Kind of Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2007\/nov\/16\/sciencenews.g2\">long piece<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/\">Bad Science&#8217;s<\/a> Ben Goldacre in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian about the perils of homeopathy. Not only is there no evidence that it works (mainly  because it&#8217;s founded on nonsensical designs), but homeopathic practitioners have actually suggested using their remedies for such killer diseases as malaria and even AIDS.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t forget, this &#8220;medicine&#8221; which remains unproven, is actually funded by the NHS!<br \/>\nAt the same time proper hospitals are being closed down or downgraded &#8211; including my own local establishment. There was a march <a href=\"http:\/\/savechasefarm.co.uk\/\">protesting<\/a> against closure of services at Chase Farm today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/2040255627\/\" title=\"Save Chase Farm by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2122\/2040255627_db92aa6be5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Save Chase Farm\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an excellent long piece by Bad Science&#8217;s Ben Goldacre in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian about the perils of homeopathy. Not only is there no evidence that it works (mainly because it&#8217;s founded on nonsensical designs), but homeopathic practitioners have actually suggested using their remedies for such killer diseases as malaria and even AIDS. Don&#8217;t forget, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}