Homeopathy is putting people's lives at risk, warns top scientist

7th December 2007

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The Government's most senior scientist today warned that homeopathic medicine was putting lives at risk.

Sir David King said the alternative medicine, whose supporters include Prince Charles and novelist Jeanette Winterson, was of no medical use whatsoever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=500045&in_page_id=1774

Homeopathic remedies 'put lives at risk'  7/12/07
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/07/nhpathy107.xml

Have Your Say: Is homeopathy endangering patients?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/07/nhpathy107.xml#form

My Comment (not published at time of sending this)

Louise Mclean, Editor, Zeus Information Service.

There is no understanding in these discussions of the homeopathic repertory, the materia medica and the homeopathic provings.  Every remedy has to undergo a Proving in order to discover its healing properties.  This entails 50-100 people going away and repeatedly taking a 30c of a remedy until they develop symptoms which must be recorded later in a database.  No Prover must discuss these symptoms with the others.  Whatever symptoms they all experience are entered into the materia medica as being the symptoms relating to the remedy.  Then you get someone who is ill with those symptoms and they are cured on the basis of 'like cures like'.

Homeopathy cures through stimulating the body's own healing powers, the potentised remedy acts as a catalyst to promote healing.

People seem also unaware that as far back as the 5th century BC, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, stated there are two forms of healing:  The Law of Opposites (orthodox medicine) and the Law of Similars (homeopathy).

Another point is the negligible amount of insurance claims against homeopaths compared to medical doctors.  So where is this terrible risk Sir David talks of?!  Sir David who is so close to the GM companies like Monsanto.

I don't know if people are aware that many homeopaths are well educated people who already have university degrees before they train.

When the NHS was formed in 1948, provision was made for homeopathy as long as there were patients who wanted it.  From what I gather there have been YEAR LONG WAITING LISTS at the homeopathic hospitals which are now under threat - thanks to a group of senior 'rational' scientists.  Hospitals that are not mired in MRSA.  Two years ago the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital carried out a study of 6500 patients and found the overall improvement in health to be 70%.

Finally the Lancet trial in 2005 only based their conclusion on 8 out of 110 trials - dismissing 102 positive trials - how scientific is that?! 

VOCAL OPPONENTS OF NATURAL MEDICINE FIGHT ON

4/12/07

(STRONG Stuff from someone who has been carefully watching the political scene for the past 20 years)

http://www.zeusinfoservice.com/Health/VOCALOPPONENTS.html

Concern over HIV homeopathy role

1 December 2007 

Doctors and health charities have expressed concern about a conference which will examine the role of homeopathy in treating HIV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7122370.stm

0850: Should homeopathy have any role in the treatment of HIV/AIDS? As part of World AIDS Day the homeopathy society is holding a debate.   1/12/07

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/saturday.shtml

Symposium offers open debate on homeopathy, HIV and AIDS

(Press Statement)

http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/press-releases.aspx

The 3-minute interview with Dana Ullman  Nov 30, 2007

http://www.examiner.com/a-1077513~The_3_minute_interview_with_Dana_Ullman.html

About Dr. Manish Bhatia

http://hpathy.com/ezine/editorial/2007July.asp

Jeremy Sherr

Interviewed by Manish Bhatia

http://www.hpathy.com/ezine/2007nov.asp

Working in partnership with the Soil Association,
We teach conventional and organic farmers
how to use homoeopathy effectively on their own farm.   http://www.hawl.co.uk/

Boiron Laboratories Disputes British Journal's Editorial on Homeopathy

Tuesday, November 27, 2007.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/861271/

How Scientific is Modern Medicine?

The following is an excerpt from The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, by Dana Ullman.

(Scroll right down page to read) 

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/68065/

(Australia) Baby death: call for homeopath rules

19/11/07

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/baby-death-call-for-homeopath-rules/2007/11/19/1195321684868.html

homeopathic medicines for health problems during lunar missions

4/12/07

(I kid you not!)

http://innerhealth.us/blog2/2007/12/04/homeopathic-medicines-for-health-problems-during-lunar-missions/

Lancet article slams homeopathy and causes stir

November 2007

(US) Chiropractors weigh in to the row....

http://www.chiroeco.com/news/2007/November/Lancet-Article-Slams-Homeopathy-Causes-Stir.php

Skeptics webblogs below show their total ignorance of Provings, the Repertory or Materia Medica.

Random reward may explain why homeopathy still exists

Saturday, December 1, 2007

This makes no sense to me...obviously the pigeon would be expecting more pellets and its behaviour is quite intelligent, not crazy.  LouiseZeus

http://medjournalwatch.blogspot.com/2007/12/random-reward-may-explain-why.html

Responses from signatories to Homeopathy motion

November 19, 2007

This year 206 MPs signed a motion advocating support for NHS homeopathic hospitals (the motion, and signatories, are here). I sent them all the following email: 

Tom Whipple, skeptic, wrote to all of these MPs to ask why theysigned       http://statsdontlie.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/responses-from-signatories-to-homeopathy-motion/

74th Skeptic’s Circle & Other Likable Links

Med Journal Watch is hosting the 74th bi-weekly Skeptic’s Circle: a free and sumptuous smörgåsbord of skeptical scrivenings. Some more splendid splutterings worth your blogosphere business: The Bug Girl lays into what I found to be a downright astonishingly awful

Kristjan Wager hosts the Skeptic Circles:

The 75th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle – the plain edition   6/12/07

http://kriswager.blogspot.com/2007/12/75th-meeting-of-skeptics-circle-plain.html

*James Randi's Forum

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=100281

Diluting The Profits

2/12/07

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2007/12/diluting-the-pr.html

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