The heyday of unfettered alternative medicine is coming to an end. All right I can hear you saying: “What a ridiculous claim. Doesn’t he know that many, if not most, general practices have taken it on board and the public will brook no gainsaying of it?” I say it again, the end is in sight. Just you wait, ’enry ’iggins; just you wait and see.

I said unfettered—unrestrained, uninhibited, unregulated—that will stop. The good bits (of course there must be good bits) will become separated from the mire of therapeutic magic that has threatened to drag us back to an …