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Alt Med - an Industry Like Any Other

There seems to be a perception among some that the alternative medicine industry is somehow warm and cuddly in comparison to everyone's favourite baddie, 'Big Pharma'. I'm sorry to say that 'Big Altie' is every bit as bad as Big Pharma. These are not charities - they are businesses like any other. Their responsibilities are to their shareholders, not to the public.

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Prince Charles' Foundation for Integrated Health Invests in Big Pharm and the Arms Industry

[bpsdb] Accounts filed with the Charities Commission and noticed by the Republic blog show that Prince Charles' alternative medicine charity, the Foundation for Integrated Health (from which the problem child OfQuack was spawned) has over a million pounds' worth of investments, including shares in Shell, GlaxoSmithKline and BAE Systems (via the "Artemis UK Special Situations" fund). (HT: @lecanardnoir).

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