Alternative Medicine in UK Universities

Poppleton University made history when it decided to re-name its Department of Physics and Astronomy as the Department of Evidence-based Physics. This restructuring became necessary after the foundation of the new Department of Alternative Physics and Astrology. How did this come about? The Finance and Public Relations departments at Poppleton, with rare foresight, had spotted an opportunity to get bums on seats. The old fashioned Physics Department, with its tedious insistence on evidence and mathematics, was proving to be too much like hard work to appeal to undergraduates. In the new Department of Alternative Physics, all theories are treated as equally true if someone cares to believe passionately in them, and mathematics is replaced by intuition and ancient wisdom. Consequently failure was impossible and the finances of the university were transformed. There was no problem in getting official accreditation for the new department, because naturally the accreditation was carried out by appropriate experts in alternative physics and astrology.