BMJ 2008;336:776 (5 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39535.585579.59
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Liam Farrell, general practitioner, Crossmaglen, County Armagh
William.Farrell@528.gp.n-i.nhs.uk
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A few years ago I felt compelled (out of both a sense of duty and a feeling of nausea) to chide the Independent about its complementary health guru. "Oooh, but he’s very popular," was the newspaper’s defence. So is pornography, I said. "Oooh no," they replied, in an outraged tone, "that wouldn’t be ethical," though I reckoned that big tits on page 3 is a lot more ethical than snake oil salesmen peddling the illusion of knowledge to the gullible and the vulnerable.
But if even a newspaper as pretentious and worthily dull as the Independent can be trying to court the favour of the lumpen proletariat, then there is a lesson for all of us.
Every quarter someone (I don’t know who, some anonymous benefactor who thinks I should be bettering myself) sends me the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. As I am sometimes a good doctor, I read
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