Sceptical Letter Writer

Hitchin - the sleepy Hertfordshire town so amiable, that even the ducks walk around with smiles on their faces - is suffering from a miniature plague of quacks who think they're real doctors.
Tucked into one corner of the town's attractive market square can be found the Chinese medicine shop pictured below....

It's difficult for someone like me, whose mind is pure and unpolluted, to imagine why anyone would want to spend several years and thousands of pounds training to put things up other people's bottoms.
But let's not be harsh in our judgement of colonic irrigation therapists. How many of us have successfully managed to turn our hobby into a career, eh?...

Are you tired of that pesky cancer that's been troubling you in recent weeks?
Have you given up on quack therapies like homeopathy, which promise an effective treatment but which turn out to be nothing but water?
Then you should try Preventa, the new product from Northants-based Blue Gold Ltd....

Fearless anti-racism campaigner Errol Denton has been hard at work this past week promoting his new pressure group CARBS (Campaign Against Racist Bloggers).
The group's launch hasn't exactly been a roaring success. Thousands of people were invited to 'like' a Facebook campaign page but, as of today, only a smattering of them have expressed their support....