Can someone please enlighten me how the supposed ‘placebo effect’ is relevant to the following:

Animal studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-animal-studies/

Plant studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-plant-studies/

Environmental Studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-overview/

In vitro studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-in-vitro-and-related-studies/

Physics and chemistry studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-physics-and-chemistry-studies/

Fungus studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2009/10/maria-curie-sklodowska-university-in-poland-proves-homeopathy/

DNA studies?

http://avilian.co.uk/2009/09/luc-montagnier-foundation-proves-homeopathy-works/

Charles Darwin’s work with drosera?

http://avilian.co.uk/2009/03/charles-darwin-proved-homeopathic-dilutions/

If you ignore two thirds of the evidence, it’s not surprising lies win!

In fact, the recent Science and Technology Commission into Homeopathy ignored ALL of the evidence!

http://avilian.co.uk/2010/02/homeopathy-british-justice-or-british-bullying/

See the British Homeopathic Association website for the official response to this flawed Commission

http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/media_centre/press_releases/

http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/media_centre/

(For more wonderful Alan V Schmukler cartoons see his web site)

With thanks to David Tredinnick:

…..Another issue that we need to address this evening is homeopathy. Section 5.50 of the report says that therapies should be able to seek statutory regulation, and homeopathy is the one therapy in group 1 in the report—the Minister will remember that there are different classifications—that is not statutorily regulated.

I am informed by the Society of Homeopaths, which is the largest organisation representing non-medical homeopaths, that there is a move towards statutory regulation through the Health Professions Council.

Will the Government look favourably on that application? Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to the Faculty of Homeopathy 29 June 2009

The European Committee for Homeopathy (ECH) and Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, the European and worldwide organisations representing medical homeopaths, have written to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to outline homeopathy’s role in epidemics and to suggest closer collaboration.

This follows a call by a group of young medics and scientists, the Voice of Young Science (VoYS), for WHO to ban homeopathy in certain illnesses.

With thanks to George Vithoulkas Alternative Nobel Prize winner.

In 2002 the BBC Horizon program presented a documentary that showed that the Benveniste experiment about homeopathy was a fake one and therefore… homeopathy was also fake! Read the rest of this entry »

This routine American behaviour is now being used in Europe to further the interests of big business. Read the rest of this entry »

Your suspicions may start to be raised when you look at the list of donors to Sense About Science.

These include the rather coyly abbreviated Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries (ABPI), GE Healthcare, and pharma companies GlaxoSmithKline, Oxford GlycoSciences plc, Pfizer plc, and Unilever plc.

Read recent update about Sense About Science

Watch the Channel 4 expose of Sense about Science (scroll down to “A dispute about the benefits of homeopathy is threatening NHS provision of complementary medicine.“) (and check out the people funding these attacks.) Read the rest of this entry »

Professor Ernst holds the Chair of Alternative Medicine at Exeter University, though he is our main antagonist against alternative medicine at the moment!

So Edzard Ernst no longer claims to have ANY training in alternative medicine – read his own CV here!

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Would you prefer to choose, or just be told what’s right for you and your family?

It takes 30 seconds to show your support for homeopathy H:MC21 Read the rest of this entry »

Through the late Eighties into the early Nineties, Martin J. Walker worked as an investigator for lawyers in criminal and civil cases and with defendants – with and without lawyers.

In the late 1980s he co-founded Hackney Community Defense Association (HCDA), a group which worked on the defence of people assaulted, fitted up and wrongfully arrested by the police in north east London . Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrities back “Homeopathy worked for me“

We’ve also just confirmed that five well known UK celebrities have agreed to endorse the Homeopathy worked for me campaign. Read the rest of this entry »