The gist of the letter was “We may have given them some money, but they’re a voluntary regulator, not a statutory one, so we don’t have any oversight of them.”

This is not entirely unsurprising, but disappointing.

That’s an interesting statement, Zeno. Does this mean that the General Medical Council and the General Dental Council are not fit for purpose, for neither of those bodies is obliged to judge the efficacy or safety of it’s registrants’ practices either?

I’m disappointed. Here was me thinking Charles Windsor avidly read my every word…

http://www.duchyoriginals.com/echinacea_tincture.php

I was shocked last year to hear a radio ad for a course in “kinesiology” presumably the quackery “applied kinesiology” as state government subsidised under a “skills training program” but I didn’t get enough details to act on it (I was driving at the time)

There is far too much for him to do here!

But maybe we could allow him an occasional holiday in your neck of the woods? Would that do as a compromise?

We desperately need more of your type here.
Or even just ONE of your forcefully rational type here!