Monday, March 05, 2007

Tax-funded Shamans   [Andrew Stuttaford]

Scott Burgess emerges from his blog to write this in the Times:

We’ve just learnt that some hospitals are removing every third light bulb to save money, and that nurses are being paid half the minimum wage — or being asked to work for nothing — at others. That’s how bad the financial crisis has become. Meanwhile, the National Health Service is employing shaman fairy enthusiasts as psychological counsellors, enthusiastically providing treatments invented by "an ordained minister and a personal performance coach" who thinks tapping your body can cure diabetes, promoting dowsers and crystal healers and spending vast amounts on therapies that can’t be scientifically supported. Am I the only one who sees a problem here?

I hope not, Scott, I hope not.

Read the whole thing.

03/05 03:23 PMShare