Jeremy Sherr’s clinics promoting homeopathy in Africa is, as Quackometer puts it, murderous. Homeopathy has been shown to be a placebo and, as a placebo, can have certain benefits for a narrow range of ailments through use of psychological effects. And there are probably better ways to harness this placebo effect. But to use homeopathy [...]
It’s clear, homeopathy is a placebo. It’s been demonstrated again and again in proper scientific trials. The recent Science & Technology committee report on homeopathy comes to the same conclusion and makes a series of recommendations, and gimpy’s blog has rather good article on this at: http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/the-evidence-check-on-homeopathy-is-released-and-it-is-devastating/ DC’s Improbable Science also has an interesting article [...]
Quackery such as homeopathy need to be treated as such; quackery. Endorsement for quackery from the government, NHS or the meddling Royal family need to be challenged. Additionally, silence or inaction can be interpreted as an endorsement for quackery. It is a hard battle fighting nonsense, but we do need to get away from these [...]
