“Ultimately what Nightingale is attacking is the intelligence and judgement of people who are trying to find an effective way to heal themselves. If homeopathy, which even its most virulent critics cannot claim is remotely likely to be harmful, works for you, then someone needs to combine serious arrogance with real battiness to believe they have the right to stand in the way.”
There is no shortage of villains in the world. Psychopaths – domestic and national – whalers, toxic waste dumpers, global eavesdroppers, billionaire tax avoiders and their army of accountants – all well worth campaigning against with the aim of getting them banged up or forced to cough up.
There is also an infinite supply of people who are mildly irritating who misplace apostrophes, wear Croc shoes, do crochet, litter their sentences with “you know” and text using their middle finger.
However most of us can tell the difference. In fact mixing the two categories up is a pretty reliable indicator of a serious level of battiness . Picketing shops that sell Crocs or campaigning to forbid the sale of mobiles to clumsy texters puts you firmly in the mild-to-fairly-irritating and definitely-a-bit -potty class.
Step forward the Nightingale Collaboration, earnest and self-styled defender of rationalism, whose seriously potty members have got…
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The passage you’ve highlighted accuses the Nightingale Collaboration of “standing in the way”. Actually it’s the regulations that are in place to protect the consumer from misleading claims made in their advertising that stand in the way. This was pointed out beneath the article but, like it would seem the blinkers remain firmly in place, the fingers remain stuck firmly in the ears and you’re all singing, ‘lalalalala’ at the top of your voices rather than address the truth of the situation.
Comment by Skepticat_UK — 30 June 2013 @ 10:25 am