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David Tredinnick- they voted for this guy?

It’s been brought to my attention that MP David Tredinnick has recently tabled some Early Day Motions (EDMs) supporting the pseudoscience known as “homeopathy”. Intrigued, I looked further. This is what I found: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tredinnick_(politician) He was once a Parliamentary Private Secretary, but was forced to resign and was suspended for 20 days after he [...]

British MPs displaying ignorance?

DC’s Improbable Science has an article http://www.dcscience.net/?p=2829 titled “A handy list of dimwitted members of parliament” which starts: An‘early day motion1 (EDM 908) has been tabled in parliament which opposes the conclusions of the science and technology committee report on the evidence for homeopathy. After two weeks it has been signed by an amazing 55 [...]