Jeanette Winterson saves the world!

It appears that Jeanette Winterson has caused something of a furore - a quiet, unobtrusive furore that you don't really notice unless you look RIGHT at it, but a furore (nice word, that) nevertheless, by suggesting in the Daily Mail (what's she doing writing for the Daily Mail??) that what the people of AIDS-ravaged botswana need is an urgent shipment of homeopathic remedies.
Sadly, I don't have the original article, as the Mail won't let you pinch articles from its web pages.

The Guardian are much more amenable, though. Here's the comment from today's 'Bad Science' section.

· Meanwhile, it was a delight to see intellectual Jeanette Winterson, following her recent article on the predictive powers of her favourite astrologer, writing in the Times on Saturday about a project to treat Aids sufferers in Botswana - where 48% of the population is HIV positive - with homeopathy. Some might say it was slightly patronising, unrealistic or even pointless to take your western, patient-empowering, anti-medical establishment and culturally specific placebo to a country that has little healthcare infrastructure, is frequently engaged in a water war with Namibia, and suffers frequent droughts. But we can only guess what the people of Botswana might say.

i find The Guardian's perspective unneccessarily dismissive, but don't really know what I think of her suggestion. It doesn't seem like the most practical approach to the problem.