Astrology in Healthcare

[SweetValentine]

"A Tory MP has has claimed NHS over-crowding could be solved by doctors using astrology to treat patients.

"Astrology is a useful diagnostic tool enabling us to see strengths and weaknesses via the birth chart.

"People who oppose what I say are usually bullies who have never studied astrology.

Bizarrely, Tredinnick, 65, who is chairman of the All-Party Group for Integrated Healthcare, went on to say people who opposed astrology were "racist".

Tredinnick, who was born under the Capricorn star sign, claims his own astrological chart suggests he was destined to be a "servant of the people." He said: "I have a strong 6th house which suggests an emphasis on being a servant of the people - and this is quite a strong indication of health and healing. My Moon-Venus-Jupiter planets (in Aquarius) sit opposite Pluto in the 12th house."

I'm not even going to ask if AIBU to think it's a load of bollocks, because it is a load of bollocks.

Astrology or the non-belief is racism??!!

Haha.

I do like a Tory!! MP sticking up for astrology though....

everyone should get their chart done by a proper astrologer!

I've just been reading about his views on Autism. Terrifyong that as an MP he should have such a voice in NHS matters

www.zenosblog.com/2015/02/the-evidence-for-david-tredinnick-mp/

I'd love to see the NICE guidelines for this

Oh I love it!

Yy Weasel - the NICE guidelines would be pant-wettingly funny, I'd imagine

Perhaps they could introduce crystal ball reading too to ascertain optimal treatment programmes and outcomes?

Iflyaway Tories have as much right to be stark, staring bonkers as anybody else

roar at bluestocking didn't you know you might prove the remedy

ohflippity maybe we need our own support thread? Like the stately homes one. I'm definitely scarred from a childhood of being told that my recurrent tonsillitis was something I'd chosen to experience in order to beef up my karma points.

On hearing my diagnosis of cervical cancer she selflessly insisted I sit and receive reiki, whilst telling me whatever I do, 'don't let them cut you!'

We didn't speak for five years around that time, although I am back in touch now, albeit at arms length. She asked me if I wanted to eat activated charcoal the other day. I'm delicate of gut after a serious bout of campylobacter last year. She was promptly told to fuck off

Can't believe this nitwit is actually on the health select committee. Groan.

trashcanjunkie I am reminded of the woman on the LBC phone-in who said she was smoking while pg because her baby would then be immune to lung cancer!

Hi, I'm a Gemini,
I love walking in the park,
cocktails and lower back pain.

Astrology is bollocks.

That said, I did teach myself to cast a horoscope (Placidus house system) by hand from scratch, using tables of houses and an ephemeris. Haven't done it for years now ... anyway it's all computers. Takes the fun out of it.

I love all this stuff, Tory Minister is an Astrological Cock.
Russell Grant, Consultant Idiotologist for the Total Idiot party, MP for Chipping Knobton.

I'm actually having medical tests for my baby today, and getting really fucking angry at the thought of this dickhead telling people the answers are in the stars

He's an MP???
He's on the Working Party on Integrated Healthcare???
WTAF ????????????????????????

And they wonder why people have become disengaged with politics....

According to that link about autism, he's on the science and technology committee too. How did that happen?

David Tredinnick is a loose cannon and his position as chairman of a health committee shows just how fucking wrong government gets it sometimes.

Mind, we do have a health secretary who believes in homeopathy, which I've always thought was piss-poor too.

, SweetValentine. Hope everything goes well for you today.

Since David Nutt gave the government a dose of proper science that went against government policy and saw him swiftly removed from position, I firmly believe that the government want to staff their science and health committees with pliable idiots whose opinions they can dismiss easily (because they are idiots).

I just don't have the words....

I love the Dara sketch. Astrology is a form of racism.

I know doctors in Tudor times used to create complicated astrology charts for their patients. Think we've moved on a tad since then.........

The current Science and Technology Committee

Andrew Miller: Economist/industry type. Worked as a lab technician at a poly.

Dan Byles: Military, adventurer, creative writing education.

Jim Dowd: Telecoms.

Mr David Heath: Hurrah, he has a science degree (Physiology)! Worked as an optometrist.

Stephen Metcalfe: Family printing business.

Stephen Mosley: Hurrah, he has a science degree (Chemistry)! Works as IT type.

Pamela Nash: Career politician.

Sarah Newton: Marketing.

Graham Stringer: Hurrah, he has a science degree (Chemistry)! Worked as an analytical chemist.

David Tredinnick:Military, management/marketing.

10 people, three science degrees between them. For fucks sake. I share an office with two other people and we have six between us.

It's boring without any mad homeopathy/general woo defenders on here to tease

Jeremy Hunt believes in homoeopathy, as does the future King of this country.

Are you suggesting that's a good thing or a bad thing, letsplayscrabble?
I'm not quite sure from your post.

We all know that Charles Windsor is crackers though, right?