Astrology

Read his wiki entry for more!! Unbelievable!

This has to be a wind-up. For heaven's sake!

Don't think I could face his Wiki page only so much a girl can take before breakfast.

Politicians with snouts in trough, war-mongering, venality, cosying-up with dictators ...... I can deal with that, but ASTROLOGY?, FFS!

Wish it were- he has form. Vets, surgeons etc have all criticised him for his whacky views- it would be funny if it weren't so serious

Oh dear, that's quiet worrying.

I am one, who every Saturday, reads my horoscope in the magazine which comes with our newspaper.There are not many weeks go by when my career is going to take off with spectacular succcess. At 77, I wish!!
Seriously the man is deranged and I'm surprised the press publishes such stories ,unless of course to prove just how mad he is.

There are many people who believe in Astrology as strongly as atheists believe there is no god and those of faiths believe there is a God

What is the matter with the voters of Bosworth?

But surely Anniethey wouldn't rely on to diagnose or cure their ills?

His constituents keep returning him so he must be doing something right. Perhaps there is a large Astrological community there .

He is passionate homeopathy. Any GN's have a view on homeopathy?

He can believe in it if he wishes, but the NHS has enough to stretch the money round without that.

But even if the NHS had plenty of money, who would want this dangerous nonsense peddling?

Russell Grant to diagnose your ailments, anyone?

annsixty, no I didn't mean he was in anyway right to suggest something so stupid , I was referring to the many who do believe in astrology and am uncomfortable when they are scoffed at. I do not bother even to read horoscopes

Elegran

I know very little about homeopathy but there are NHS hospitals and some GP's practices where it is being used.

I had a friend who believed in homeopathy and she always looks healthy, she never pushed her belief onto us and I never asked!

It's a disgrace that about £4m a year is wasted in this way. There is not one shred of evidence that it works any better than placebo. NHS Choices now uses 'treatment ' to describe it. Before the recent revision the entry had been more favourable after an intervention by Charles but finally it was altered to reflect scientific reality.

Tredinnick is also an advocate of homeopathy and chiropractice as well. What's really frightening is that is on the Health Select Committee, the Science and Technology Select Committee, and is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare.

It's not a wind up.

For those that believe Eton boys are intellectually superior and more suited to high office than the rest of the population, this man must surely throw doubt on that.

He is a fervent supporter of astrology, homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine, believing that all should be available on the NHS. benefits.

He has apparently stated that "blood does not clot under a full moon" and that malaria, HIV, TB and many other serious illnesses are suitable for homeopathic treatment.

He says that astrology is part of the tradition of medicine - well so are a lot of things (like taking ground rhino horn to cure impotence) but that doesn't mean they work.

He has apparently complained that the BBC "seeks to promote a science perspective". Well, shame on the BBC!

No Anniebach, an atheist person doesn't BELIEVE there is no god - he or she is indifferent to that particular unsupported notion, as to many others. Belief plays no part in it.

@POGS - Homoeopathy is easy: some water dripped onto sugar pills, and flogged to the gullible... It's the old 'like cures like' nonsense, that had people putting their heads down the privy to ward off the plague...

Someone pointed me to an article about this in The Telegraph this morning.

I'm quite receptive of learning new things, and today I learned that Russell Grant, or some of his associates, must advertise in the Telegraph.

I think he has a point. It would save the NHS a fortune. All the gullible people would look up their horoscopes and see that they will be well tomorrow, so not go and clog up the Dr's surgeries.

A side effect of this would be that the national IQ of future generations would also be raised by several percent.

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.i disagree feetlebaum, one either believes in a thing , does not believe or is unsure . I believe homeopathy can work for some ailments, you do not , I assume by your opinion of water dripped onto sugar pills you are not undecided or unsure