{"id":36,"date":"2013-05-10T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:36:47","slug":"royal-london-homeopathic-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/index.php\/royal-london-homeopathic-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal London Homeopathic Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Why the campaign to close the RLHH? Established in 1844 it has seen more success than statins or many other &#8220;scientifically proven&#8221; drugs, many of which have been taken off the market or been recycled to treat newly invented disease names when there&#8217;s nothing new in a drug company&#8217;s pipeline to satisfy the shareholders. Prof Rachel Cooper has documented some problems with medical research (including &#8220;research&#8221; being ghost-written)\u00a0in her book <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9781844655434\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>and Prof Susan Haack did likewise with the trials into Vioxx, the arthritic drug, in her book <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Putting-Philosophy-Work-Inquiry-Culture\/dp\/1591025281\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368831349&amp;sr=8-8&amp;keywords=susan+haack\" target=\"_blank\">Putting Philosophy to Work<\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0Along the same lines, the New York Times reported that GlaxoSmithKline recently &#8220;Agreed to plead <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/03\/business\/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">guilty <\/a><\/span>to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its best-selling antidepressants for unapproved uses and failing to report safety data about a top diabetes drug.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">So who wants to close the RLHH and why? Dr Le Fanu\u00a0has an idea: <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthadvice\/jameslefanu\/7869006\/Doctors-Diary-James-Le-Fanu.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Witch Hunt Against Homeopathy<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the campaign to close the RLHH? 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