Thursday, May 29, 2008

Somewhere, Margaret Rutherford is laughing.

Mark Vernon reports on the latest work of those industrious EU boffins:

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"From this week, astrologers, palm-readers, mediums and the like must display a kind of rationalist health warning. Wherever they sell their services, new consumer protection regulations require that they declare "for entertainment only", because not "experimentally proven".

"One is compelled to ask whether they foresaw their ill-fortune. And it is tempting to raise a scientistic cheer. At last the quacks have been foiled, their bluff called! Until, that is, one asks what else in the marketplace of goods and services could pass a similar test."

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