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During its more than 200 year history, homeopathy has proven highly effective in epidemics, both as regards cure and prevention, with well-documented success rates in, among others, scarlet fever, polio, cholera and flu epidemics, and offers a viable alternative to standard vaccination called

Unfortunately no test adhering to scientific standards has ever demonstrated that homeopathie provides anything more, at best, than a placebo effect. With a worldwide turnover measured in billions, homeopathie proves to be a rather popular fraud... The belief in its "power" is so strong that many heath insurrance companies the world over have given in to even ...

But just imagine if Benveniste's quak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkQtHDLE-w
worked... Treat sickness such as malaria, HIV, ebola throught the Internet! :-) Another conspiracy from the Pharma giants?

Hold the bottle and strike it hard against a solid surface, such as a large book, 40 times.

sounds very scientific

maybe it's a science book.

sounds very scientific

Back in the 18th century-- when Hahnemann lived--- that was how one mixed things..

Unfortunately no test adhering to scientific standards has ever demonstrated that homeopathie provides anything more, at best, than a placebo effect.

Mssr Greenhell see's it as "obvious" that homeopathie is quack but given the strong beliefs in homeopathie I don't think the "obvious" is "that obvious". The US FDA, for example, has not gone after makers as "fraudsters" but yielding to the significant economic dimensions of their market has allowed their sale:
http://www.fda.gov/iceci/compliancemanuals/compliancepolicyguidancemanual/ucm074360.htm
"Today the homeopathic drug market has grown to become a multimillion dollar industry in the United States, with a significant increase shown in the importation and domestic marketing of homeopathic drug products. Those products that are offered for treatment of serious disease conditions, must be dispensed under the care of a licensed practitioner. Other products, offered for use in self-limiting conditions recognizable by consumers, may be marketed OTC."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11024978/When-did-Britain-lose-faith-in-Israel.html?fb

Ebola is self-limiting in the individual. Not so at a larger scale.

@skydancer quite surprized that you'd quote an article penned by Benny Morris.. The article was interesting.. Benny is a bit silent on the role of antisemtism in the Balfour Declaration and overstates (as to be expected from him) the Revisionists.. but in all.. the new Benny Morris is always worth a read..

For an Israeli, Benny Morris isn't rabidly right wing. He admits, almost begrudgingly that the Palestinians have been mistreated. The context of that piece tries to explains why the West backs Israel and probably will continue to do so despite the atrocities the IDF is inflicting on Gazan civilians.

However regardless of history, Britain and American arms companies want to keep selling more arms, they control politicians, so it's they who call the shots (pun intended)

Good article, I thought, on the very tricky subject of the sources of prejudice, not just against Jews.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/11/anti-jewish-hatred-rising-antisemitism-meaning

Some defenders of Israel’s governments believe the supposed special attention received by the conflict is itself evidence of antisemitism. But Israel’s atrocities attract this attention because the state is armed to the teeth and backed by western governments, rendering them directly complicit; IS and Boko Haram, on the other hand, are (quite rightly) opposed by our rulers.

For an Israeli, Benny Morris isn't rabidly right wing.

True. He is still, however, a massive racist and generally awful person.

So was HP Lovecraft and you still read his book

Rumbled!

#runaway

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11027010/Minister-quits-because-120000-salary-and-expenses-is-not-enough-to-support-his-family-in-London.html

yup i feel your problems mate, must be really hard struggling up there in the top 1%
now you have experienced how the bottom 50% of the population live you cunt, with no expenses, no free lunches, no free trips abroad and no 5 star hotels .... but i'm sure you lined your pockets, gained enough favours and scrathched enough backs to get by

Want to defend him because of

Mark Simmonds said he was quitting as a Foreign Office minister and was standing down as an MP because he was unwilling to carry on staying in hotels while his family were hundreds of miles away in Lincolnshire.

But then he said

The accommodation allowance needs to provide for families – and it doesn’t. When my children are on holiday they can’t come and stay with me in London - I can’t see them.

and you just think well the £27875 you get rent allowance is more than a lot of people earn in a year so go fuck yourself

if he can't sort his life out on £120k per year he doesn't deserve to be making descision that affect me and my kin and how we run our lives

If he cant sort his life out on 28k a year he shouldn't be making decisions

The latter half of this article from Jan adds context: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-average-salary-26500-figures-3002995#.U-m8iPldXAk

It also says he didn't want to live too far out of london. Which is where most people have to live. It's about what people are used to– he probably has a nice place back home with a garden, well connected to transport etc, and feels he shouldn't have to change his quality of life when in london.

I dont think it's a case of being able to live on the money but of wanting to. Ask anyone to lower their quality of life and they will resist the change. If he was a good MP, and we are losing good MPs because of this, it might need to be looked at. I don't happen to know if he was particularly good or not. I guess his quitting weakens the tory government which is a good thing. But what if good Labour MPs start quitting?

So that rent allowance is for a place costing £2323 pcm.

I dunno about you, Minister, but when I checked for 3 bedroom homes in that budget within 3 miles of Westminster on Rightmove there were so many results that the website refused to display them. Maybe you should have got your kids to do the whole newfangled interwebs thing for you?

@winnifred1849 but he still should not complain about having insufficient wages, when you earn more than most you can't complain that you don't have enough because you have the means to improve you situation

how long does it take usually to release black box recordings of crashed planes ?
mh 17 data still not released ? it's been a while now ?

it looks like that MP ^ just wasn't claiming enough expenses
here's how to do it properly
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-bercow-claimed-more-than-1200-to-attend-funeral-of-labour-mp-paul-goggins-9662537.html

£112 for a return taxi to euston from the houses of parliament ... nice tip

do these fuckers actually pay for anything themselves
expenses are all well and good but damn it, i don't claim for a train back from a forum ride i did on sunday from my boss on a monday

^ and he didn't need to present receipts for any of it.

Six months after he became the MP for Boston and Skegness in 2001, Mr Simmonds bought a large house in Putney, south London, for £650,000.

From 2001 to 2009, the mortgage interest was paid by the taxpayer, with the Tory MP claiming more than £2,000 a month to cover the cost.

His wife, Lizbeth, became his part-time office manager, receiving £20,000 to £25,000 a year. However, after the expenses scandal of 2009, several new rules were introduced.

Instead of claiming for the mortgage interest on the Putney house, Mr Simmonds could now claim only for renting in London.

Because his constituency house was designated as his main home, he could claim rental costs in London.

With the inflow of Liberal Democrats into government after the election, Mr Simmonds became parliamentary private secretary to the then environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, rather than receiving the ministerial role he might have expected.

Soon after these changes, Mr Simmonds sold the Putney house for £1,187,500 in the autumn of 2010 — an increase of £537,500 on what he originally paid.