Posts by Sacha
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Complementary medicine is broader than the placebo effect - and some therapies are already accepted (and funded) in primary practice. However the degree of an evidence base varies.
Personally, homeopathy just doesn't make any sense to me but I'm damn sure magnets improve my arthritis beyond any placebo effect even though I do not know how they work (before anyone riffs that meme).
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Paul Williams,
I've refrained from this discussion only because I am a member
that's a qualification to talk, surely
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Danyl strikes with another Dear John letter from Brash.
It is with a heavy heart that I withdraw my membership, not only of the National Party, as I explained in my previous letter, but also from the National Party Social Bowling Club of which I have been a proud member for twenty-three years.
I do not take this decision lightly and I have made it after observing, with mounting alarm, your lack of commitment to the activity of bowling.
When I had the privilege to serve as President of the Social Bowling Club and you were my treasurer, I railed against the inefficiency of the sport as I saw it. Despite repeated attempts to destroy the little pins at the end of the lane with our heavy balls, there was never any reduction in the total amount of pins. We spent many hours knocking them down but the next time the Club met there they all were again, standing upright just as before, presumably placed there by some malign, unseen state agency.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
with 3.142% Kiwisaver contributions
sharing the pi more fairly :)
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to BlairMacca,
If it was a "from the right" column i'd be fine with that
Maybe paired with one by the similarly unconflicted Andrew Little? To be fair, Matt McCarten's links need to be more prominently stated on each of his columns too.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to BlairMacca,
"Well-known political commentator David Farrar"
I trust someone will be complaining promptly to the Press Council about the Herald not properly disclosing Mr Farrar's day job as a main political polling supplier for the National Party. They link to his "disclosure statement" on Kiwibog which weasels thus:
I can list clients that have on their own initiative revealed they use Curia. Curia never objects to such release – it is entirely up to clients. Clients who have used Curia publicly are the Northern Advocate, the Wanganui Chronicle, Family First, the Republican Movement, Hon John Banks, Exceltium, Olivier Lequeux and Independent Liquor (NZ) Ltd.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Paul Campbell,
actually I think that the selling out Pharmac et al would be a really great wedge issue if only they'd apply a hammer to the other end
Totally agree. Yet economic sovereighty is more likely to be Winston's domain at present. Struggling to imagine Goff pulling off "I believe in a strong New Zealand, master of our own destiny" etc.
I can't believe that they aren't trying to tap into the same part of the kiwi psyche that feels smug about opposing the US on nukes
Damn straight.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Che Tibby,
i think you just called me a bullshit artist
answering that will cost you :)
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Russell Brown,
Don Brash's open letter to John key
At least you are left in no doubt what he claims to stand for.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lilith __,
the vengeful and unforgiving reputation
3 smites