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	<title>Zeno&#039;s Blog &#187; Government</title>
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		<title>NHS Tayside want to employ a new doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/08/nhs-tayside-want-to-employ-a-new-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very laudable indeed, particularly in these economically tough times — we all need to tighten our belts (so we&#8217;re told). But there are sick people out there needing healed.
But this isn&#8217;t just any doctor. They want a specialty doctor. A specialty doctor in homeopathy, no less.

They describe the job thus  (cached):
NHS Tayside Specialty Doctor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My local NHS Trust and AltMed</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/08/my-local-nhs-trust-and-altmed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever anxious to ensure the taxpayer isn’t paying for bogus therapies, I though it was about time I asked my local NHS trust.
I duly sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. I wanted to get a comprehensive understanding of what AltMed therapies they indulged in. Their responses [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Standing up for science and evidence</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/06/standing-up-for-science-and-evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science and evidence frequently have a hard time surviving in the seat of our democracy, but it seems it is going to become even more difficult in this new session, particularly where health is concerned.
David Tredinnick (Conservative, Bosworth) — he of astrology software expenses fame — put down four Early Day Motions about homeopathy a few [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>OfQuack: not fit for purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/04/ofquack-not-fit-for-purpose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/04/ofquack-not-fit-for-purpose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow scourge of chiropractors, Simon Perry, has just blogged about the admission by the CNHC — the quack&#8217;s regulator — that they are refusing to, well, regulate: OfQuack launches six-month bullshit amnesty: the regulator that doesn’t regulate.

This, and some news today that the Government is minded to let OfQuack regulate even more quacks, prompted me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>NHS Choices</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/03/nhs-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/03/nhs-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Choices website has the tag line &#8220;Your health, your choices&#8221; and aims to inform the public:
NHS Choices is the online &#8216;front door&#8217; to the NHS. It is the country&#8217;s biggest health website and gives all the information you need to make choices about your health.
They provide first-rate information about your health, illnesses, careers, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mass Lobby for Libel Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/03/mass-lobby-for-libel-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/03/mass-lobby-for-libel-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Simon Singh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know who your MP is?
If you don&#8217;t, you can find him or her on the excellent They Work for You website.
Why is this important? Well, in case you&#8217;ve been hibernating all winter (and who could blame you), there&#8217;s going to be a General Election fairly soon and there&#8217;s no better time to lobby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins to address Lib Dem Conference to call for libel law reform</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/09/richard-dawkins-to-address-lib-dem-conference-to-call-for-libel-law-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/09/richard-dawkins-to-address-lib-dem-conference-to-call-for-libel-law-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today [Sunday] Professor Richard Dawkins will put the case for libel law reform to the Liberal Democrat conference proposing an amendment to the civil liberties bill.
The scientist and author is to appear as a guest speaker at Liberal Democrat Party Conference on Sunday.
Professor Dawkins will tell the conference that the chilling effect of libel laws [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Regulating nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/08/regulating-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/08/regulating-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Colquhoun&#8217;s frustration — and indeed anger — is palpable. And understandably so.
He brilliantly covered Monday&#8217;s announcement by the Department of Health (DoH) of their consultation into the regulation of &#8220;acupuncture, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional medicine systems&#8221;.
This consultation is the DoH&#8217;s response to the infamous Pittilo Report, which saw the light [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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