Josie Ford
CHARITIES offering unproven or pseudoscientific treatments will face new regulations from the UK Charities Commission. Will this be enough to protect vulnerable people?
There is a special role in British society for charities, especially during the season of giving. You can donate to everything from school sports days to Siberian tigers, but to qualify for tax breaks, the recipients must show, with evidence, that there is a public benefit to what they do.
But, last year, complementary and alternative medicine seemed to be playing fast and loose with the words “evidence” and “benefit”.
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