For those of you who missed this morning's
The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4, listen
here to a fragment where homoeopathy-sceptic
Simon Singh and conservative MP
David Tredinnick take opposing views on the healing powers of homoeopathic remedies. Based on a couple of studies published recently,
Tredinnick feels it is worth re-opening the debate on whether or not the
NHS should fund homoeopathic remedies; Simon Singh explains why this would be a mistake. The latter's description of a French homoeopathic flu medicine that contains one crushed and highly diluted duck that serves millions of people - and therefore earns the company who created the remedy millions of Euros - as the ultimate quack remedy is a wonderful and almost perfect put-down for the values of homoeopathy.
