{"id":136965,"date":"2010-01-04T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T21:30:59","slug":"homeopathy-and-the-1023-project-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136965","title":{"rendered":"Homeopathy and the 10:23 project | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.1023.org.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/12\/1023Campaign_logo.png\" alt=\"1023Campaign_logo\" title=\"1023Campaign_logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9380\"\/><\/a>I received a mysterious email recently, promoting what to me sounds like a great idea: a concerted effort in the UK to increase the public awareness that homeopathy is quackery, pure and simple. It&#8217;s called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.1023.org.uk\/\">the 10:23 Campaign<\/a>, and it&#8217;s being promoted by various skeptic groups in Britain. The website is a placeholder for now, but you can sign up there for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Why do this? Well, as they say,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Homeopathy is an ancient, pre-scientific and absurd pseudoscience. Yet it persists today as an accepted complementary medicine, largely because people don&#8217;t know what it is.<\/p>\n<p>The 10:23 Campaign aims to show the public what homeopathy is and explain how we know it doesn&#8217;t work. It will launch in early 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent. And why call it the 10:23 Campaign? Well, happily <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avogadro_constant\">I have a mole who informs me of such things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4hKbSuI2DsmXnRCcKzHHxIW1NIw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4hKbSuI2DsmXnRCcKzHHxIW1NIw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4hKbSuI2DsmXnRCcKzHHxIW1NIw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/4hKbSuI2DsmXnRCcKzHHxIW1NIw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/quqtMMz9yAo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/B-YrzaG6BHc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a mysterious email recently, promoting what to me sounds like a great idea: a concerted effort in the UK to increase the public awareness that homeopathy is quackery, pure and simple. It&#8217;s called the 10:23 Campaign, and it&#8217;s being promoted by various skeptic groups in Britain. The website is a placeholder for now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}