{"id":1418,"date":"2004-12-24T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2004-12-24T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T18:33:24","slug":"political-correctness-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Political correctness gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <em>Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F12%2F24%2Fncanc24.xml&amp;sSheet=%2Fportal%2F2004%2F12%2F24%2Fixportaltop.html\">splashes<\/a> on the news that the <span class=\"caps\">NHS <\/span>is running out of heroin: Chiron, the firm that supplies the <span class=\"caps\">NHS, <\/span>has suspended production while it tries to sort out problems with the flu vaccine it makes. Apparently the <span class=\"caps\">NHS <\/span>gets through 640,000 ampoules of the stuff every month.<\/p>\n\n<p>But, of course, the <em>Telegraph<\/em> can&#8217;t say that the <span class=\"caps\">NHS <\/span>depends on heroin. Instead, it explains that <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;Thousands of patients with cancer who are approaching the end of their lives depend on diamorphine for effective pain relief. It is also used to treat heroin addicts.&#8221;<\/span> Diamorphine <em>is<\/em> heroin. That&#8217;s the point. That&#8217;s why it is used to treat heroin addicts. This, surely, is political correctness gone mad, and at the <em>Telegraph<\/em> of all places. Bah! Humbug! Merry Christmas to you all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Telegraph splashes on the news that the <span class=\"caps\">NHS <\/span>is running out of heroin: Chiron, the firm that supplies the <span class=\"caps\">NHS, <\/span>has suspended production while it tries to sort out problems with the flu vaccine it makes. Apparently the <span class=\"caps\">NHS <\/span>&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}