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Comment on Slow Food Bantry Bay by oliver more

oliver more — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:04:59 +0000

good luck with it! Slow Food is great craic, and the events are always great fun. I’ve been involved for 3 years formally with the erne-garavogue convivium up in the north west - we had an agm and event recently and there really is nothing like the diversity of ppl broadly interested in good food coming together.

the events tend to be great coming together of like minds: you
mobilising the converted (which is important - we’re often isolated and plof away in our own worlds) and draw a few more in with great food and drink
What more could a body ask for?
Ollie
http://olivermoore.blogspot.com

Comment on Jess’s Morrocan tagine casserole - serves 4 by Grace

Grace — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:14:08 +0000

Morocco is spelled MOROCCO
The tagine is great though!

Comment on Organic Food Ireland by Patricia Reynolds

Patricia Reynolds — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:27:01 +0000

Cafe sounds good. Wish we lived nearer.
I am also looking for a source of organic butter, for home consumption. Our local Supervalu in Mayo promised to get some in. All they could do was get marg!! ‘What does organic butter look like’ I have been asked. They tried.
I have just emailed Glenisk as they dont seem to have it listed on their web site. If they buy all the organic milk in Ireland and dont make butter, what hope have we got! Time to research goat keeping!

Comment on BBC drops information about Complimentary Medicine from it’s health website by bryan

bryan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:22:09 +0000

It seems that someone forgot to tell the powers that be in the world renowned Harley Street and Mayo Clinics that complementary medicine is so terrible. It is promoted strongly and used in both places, especially in cancer patients. So who is right…Quack Busters or the real experts? A no-brainer wouldn’t you say? Quack Busters just got busted! I guess there was no investigative journalist available from the BBC that could get to the bottom of this…eh…mystery. Knee jerk reactions can be very dangerous and stupid things to have…but to err is human so the BBC can be forgiven for overreacting. Fool you once BBC, shame on Quack Busters. Fool you twice, shame on you. Now be good fellows and upload the web pages again.

Bernadette Ryan

Comment on BBC drops information about Complimentary Medicine from it’s health website by leigh

leigh — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:46:59 +0000

saddly it seems this is true this is what the beeb say The BBC’s response
The decision to remove the complementary medicine area of the health website was taken as part of a wider review of all the health content in order to enable the BBC to focus its efforts on creating new and exciting content.
In order to release resources for this redevelopment work, we’re reviewing existing content from an editorial and value-for-money perspective.
The complementary health section was incomplete and, therefore, not of a satisfactory editorial standard.
It also represented a small proportion of traffic to the site but was disproportionately time-consuming.
Therefore, the decision to take it down was based on a combination of factors: how much work it needed to maintain to a high editorial standard, how much this cost and how popular it was with site users.
We have already removed other sections of the health site and plan to reduce or remove others.
We appreciate people are disappointed this area of the site has been removed and apologise if the decision has appeared abrupt to site users or inconvenienced other sites linking to BBC Health.
The BBC will continue to cover complementary health in other areas of its output, such as TV, radio and news programmes, and may reassess its complementary health content in future.

Comment on BBC drops information about Complimentary Medicine from it’s health website by stavros

stavros — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:17:12 +0000

Hannah said: Rather than taking a reasoned view and considering th evidence from good research studies on complementary medicine these individuals seem simply hell bent on trying to ’stamp out’ complementary medicine in any way possible.

Obviously there is a good reason why scientists want to ’stamp it out’ as you say. It doesn’t work. Why the hell would a scientist (not one but the vast majority!) not want a simple cure for everything from cancer to AIDS and Malaria as homeopathy claims?!? Does that make sense to you? The old story of conspiracy is totally baseless.

The grace period for homeopathy is over after 200 years and a large amount of negative studies and a small amount of positive ones. And the positive ones were fully expected if homeopathy is placebo as dictated by Bayesian theory and prior probability because of the scientific implausibility of homeopathy.

So we have two facts: i) homeopathy goes against current scientific laws and well established theories and ii) the clinical evidence for its efficacy are by no means conclusive, on the contrary they show that it is no better than placebo.

So, tell me again why we should pay taxes to fund homeopathy and why BBC should put it back?

Comment on BBC drops information about Complimentary Medicine from it’s health website by Andy Lewis

Andy Lewis — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:08:20 +0000

Hi there, just a quick one. I am a regular critic of alternative medicine and run a sceptical site at quackometer.net. I am also aware of people like David Colquhoun and his activities. What I am not aware of is any concerted attempt to shut down BBC CAM web pages. I know people may have pointed out factual errors from time to time, but there is no desire to see the pages disappear, as you suggest.

What evidence do you have for a campaign? I am most interested? I for one would like sites like the BBC to give clear and well thought out information about CAM and its evidence base. I fear no site that does such a thing. I personally believe CAM is so popular because people are unaware of the nature of much CAM and the though behind it. As far as I understand, the BBC pulled the pages because they were demanding a lot of editorial time and few people visited them.

Your thoughts, and the evidence for a ‘campaign’ would be most welcome!

Andy

Comment on Meditation in Bantry by Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:49:31 +0000

Shame you are so far away from here or i’d be there! Sounds interesting indeed!

Comment on Organic Veggie Bean Chilli by Tim (Organic) Lester

Tim (Organic) Lester — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:39:37 +0000

Seems like a tasty receipe.
Regards Tim
http://www.nuganics.com.au

Comment on Colds and flu Remedies - Sambucol by dragonfly

dragonfly — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:36:01 +0000

Quote:
Not recommended for people with auto-immune conditions.

That doesn’t make sense to me. Sambucol is used to improve immune function, why should it not be used as treatment for asthma, hayfever etc. ???

Found it gives me great relief with my auto-immune disorders….