Problems related to health are evidently a very favourite topic on radio programmes.

Listening to one the other day, a lady presenter was expounding at length and with fervour the virtues of homeopathy.

I waited for the bald statement that homeopathic medicine had no scientific basis whatsoever but that never came.

Any beneficial effect of this kind of therapy can be safely attributed to a so-called placebo effect. Such is the power of auto-suggestion.

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