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The Prescription Pricing Authority, who approved the magnetic device say simultaneously that for a device to be included it “must be cost-effective” and “There is no judgement offered about whether a product in the Drug Tariff is more (or less) efficacious than any other, or the placebo effect.”. The mind boggles.

The Open University course K221: delusions in a good university

A good chance was missed to convey the facts and the science. Well below the BBC’s usual standard for science programmes.

Use of alternative medicine, even as a placebo, raises problems that are rarely considered.

A report in the Sunday Times says the magnetic devices for leg ulcers have been approved for prescription on the NHS despite there being next to no evidence that they work. Cherie Blair is said to approve.