Debate fail

[pseudomonas]

The Guardian runs a "You ask, they answer" thing. This time, it's Neal's Yard. For some reason, they've chickened out without giving a single answer. I wonder why this could be? They also seem to be deleting any mention of the incident from their Facebook wall. Goodness knows why.

Comments

[nanaya]

Oh yes, and I think they should at least try to address some of those general questions about evidence of efficacy. But I fear that the rudeness has given them the excuse not to - "I don't expect to be spoken to like that! Accusations of bad faith, huff huff" - and makes it harder to put them on the spot about just why they weren't responding. I just can't help feeling that over-eager questioning has played into the hands of people who want to portray homeopaths as 'oppressed'.

I think I missed the malaria debacle, what was it?

[pseudomonas]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/07/1

[nanaya]

Ah thanks. Very interesting. And worrying.

[pseudomonas]

Yeah; it kind of affects the context of the debate a bit.