Parris: right and wrong
From Dominic Lawson Sir: Matthew Parris in his otherwise excellent article on the hypocrisy of the socalled alternative medicine industry (Another voice, 24 April) claims that the Sunday Telegraph has been making its 'usual song and dance about the threat posed to Britain's health food and alternative medicine industry by the European Union'.
Far from that, in our editorials we have consistently taken the approach which Matthew Parris has now adopted, most recently on 24 April — 'The medical risks of alternative remedies have received scandalously little coverage.'
It is true that in his column Christopher Booker has taken the line that Mr Parris attacks, but as a columnist of great independence Mr Parris surely understands that Mr Booker has licence to express his own views in our pages, even if they are diametrically opposed to the editorial line of the paper.
Dominic Lawson
Editor, Sunday Telegraph London El4
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