MHRA appeasing sCAM merchants again

Give me a hint on what you think the last line is.

In the meantime:

Features of regulation that British adults feel are particularly important include: a check that ingredients are safe before the product is allowed to be sold (83% of all adults saying this is either ‘essential’ or ‘very important’); a check that the manufacturer has quality controls to ensure the product contains what it says on the label and a leaflet explaining how to use the product and any likely side effects (84% and 83% respectively saying that these are either ‘essential’ or ‘very important’).
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But not whether the **** **** actually does anything useful!!!!

***** ****** H ***** on a *****!
:boggled: :boggled: :boggled:
 
And the winner is (very long pause).......................Gord in Toronto!!!!!!!! I actually meant the last line of the narrative, before the notes for editor. Now download the report and read it. Well it's rather long but you can get the main points from the summary. A key finding was that 75% of the public wants herbal medicine regulation to be the same as it is for proper medicines, ie testing efficacy as well as safety. This was quietly forgotten in the news release. Also you will see that any specific questions about whether people are interested in information about efficacy were excluded from the poll - which is rather at variance with item 4 of the notes for editor. How is MHRA going to meet its pledge to ensure that medicines work if they studiously avoid the question?

The email and phone number for the press office are given, so come on guys, give them a hard time over this. My questions are already in.
 
Asolepius said:
And the winner is (very long pause).......................Gord in Toronto!!!!!!!! I actually meant the last line of the narrative, before the notes for editor. Now download the report and read it. Well it's rather long but you can get the main points from the summary. A key finding was that 75% of the public wants herbal medicine regulation to be the same as it is for proper medicines, ie testing efficacy as well as safety. This was quietly forgotten in the news release. Also you will see that any specific questions about whether people are interested in information about efficacy were excluded from the poll - which is rather at variance with item 4 of the notes for editor. How is MHRA going to meet its pledge to ensure that medicines work if they studiously avoid the question?

The email and phone number for the press office are given, so come on guys, give them a hard time over this. My questions are already in.
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I can only express my feelings at the revelation that the survey actually asked the question, received a 75% positive response and was left out of the press release in a font larger than that available, in colours brighter than than available and in words that would get me banned from the Intertubes for ever. So I have no response. :boggled:100
 
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Pfft. As long as you believe it works, and doesn't make you have diarrhea like real medicine can cause somethimes.. then it feels good and you should DO IT.

No bad effects ever equals no good effects, but who cares... I need a pill and I want it now, and it should be green (like totally harmless plants).

Hm? Some plants contain stuff that can kill ya or make your brain wig out (magic mushrooms)? Oh, nah, pfft...
*sticks fingers in ears and sticks out tongue*

Na na, just give me the white pills then. White stuff is totally safe all the time (chews on lactose pill). MMM. Homoepathy is sweet if you don't try to drink the liquid form...
 
At least the finding that 77% agree that herbal medicines need to be regulated, rising to 87% among regular users of herbal medicines pulls the rug out from under the ANH's claim to be opposing regulation on behalf of consumers.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
Pfft. As long as you believe it works, and doesn't make you have diarrhea like real medicine can cause somethimes.. then it feels good and you should DO IT.

No bad effects ever equals no good effects, but who cares... I need a pill and I want it now, and it should be green (like totally harmless plants).

Hm? Some plants contain stuff that can kill ya or make your brain wig out (magic mushrooms)? Oh, nah, pfft...
*sticks fingers in ears and sticks out tongue*

Na na, just give me the white pills then. White stuff is totally safe all the time (chews on lactose pill). MMM. Homoepathy is sweet if you don't try to drink the liquid form...
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We had a case recently in Canada (sorry I'm not so interested as to Google for it) where some sort of naturist was galumping through the woods of New Brunswick tasting the plants as he went until he tasted some sort of poisonous toadstool and died in pain very shortly afterwards.

I like to think his last words were, "But it was natural."

(No smilies were harmed in the creation of this post.)
 
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