online debate on alternative med

As many of you may know I am not a proponent of alternative medicine
but I think many here are, so I am forwarding the press release which
I recently received for an online debate on this topic. Zee
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Quoted message said:

I thought you might be interested in contributing to the spiked/Wellcome
Trust online debate 'COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: WHY IS
CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE NOT ENOUGH?', and in attending the related public
event being held in central London on the evening of Wednesday 15 June 2005.

Quoted message said:

The 'COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE' online debate can be found
on spiked at:

http://www.spiked-online.com/cam

Quoted message said:

The 'COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE' public event is taking place
at:

- 6.30pm for 7pm (complimentary drinks at 6.30pm)
Wednesday 15 June 2005

- Shepherd Hall
St Thomas' Hospital
Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1 7EH

- Map
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newprint.srf?x=530620&y=179339&z=1

- Further details
http://www.spiked-online.com/event

Four lead pieces have been published as part of the online debate, and
three of these experts will be speaking on the panel at the 15 June public
event:

- DR PETER FISHER, clinical director of the Royal London Homeopathic
Hospital, argues that 'for some clinical problems, conventional treatments
are not fully effective'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAB80.htm

- MARK HENDERSON, science correspondent at The Times (London), argues that
'any perceived benefit of homeopathy or reflexology arises purely from the
placebo effect or the regressive fallacy'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAB6A.htm

- CHARLES PITHER, medical director of the RealHealth Institute, argues that
'conventional medicine has forgotten the primal aspects of caring'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAB68.htm

- MICHAEL BAUM, emeritus professor of surgery at University College London,
argues that 'in the past 200 years we have learnt much about the exquisite
mechanisms of the body'.
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAB69.htm

We welcome any views that you have on this issue, and that you would like
to submit in response to the debate.

The debate, while moderated, is open to contributions from anybody, and
all contributions will be permanently archived. To submit a contribution,
simply click on 'Join the debate' in the right-hand menu at:

http://www.spiked-online.com/cam