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	<title>Zeno&#039;s Blog &#187; OfQuack (CNHC)</title>
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		<title>OfQuack: not fit for purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2010/04/ofquack-not-fit-for-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>Casting the runes II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Casting the runes, I highlighted the abject failure of OfQuack to reach even their ever-so-slightly modified 2009 membership target. Remember, it started out at 10,000. Then it was downsized to 4,000 — just five months after they opened for business — by re-writing their press release from the previous December. Then, in September, The Lay Scientist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casting the runes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of divination can be fun!
OfQuack (aka the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council) was set up with the help of £900,000 of public money to try to give all sorts of AltMed quackery some kind of credence and legitimacy. It is backed by Prince Charles&#8217;s Foundation for Integrated Health and considering their other bastard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulating nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/08/regulating-nonsense/</link>
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		<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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		<title>Moving the goalposts (Part Three)</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/moving-the-goalposts-part-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the GCC this time, but OfQuack.
Thanks to the ever-vigilant Andy Lewis at the Quackometer for spotting this one.
Way back in February, just two weeks after they opened their register, OfQuack announced that they had been &#8220;overwhelmed by both enquiries and applications&#8221;.
Well, have they?

As of today, they only have 409 quacks registered: 369 massage therapists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By invitation only &#8211; bizarre goings-on at OfQuack</title>
		<link>http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/by-invitation-only-bizarre-goings-on-at-ofquack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s obviously the time for bizarre press releases. This one appeared on OfQuack&#8217;s website today:

Open invitation to ‘Mr Smith’
CNHC has been saddened to see, yet again, inaccurate information widely circulated about our business by one &#8216;Mr Smith&#8217;. Our response has been to invite the writer, whoever she/he may be, to meet with us and talk [...]]]></description>
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