With thanks to Carol Boyce, Alan V Schmukler at Hpathy.com 18.2.10:
The homeopathic community scrambled to make written submissions before the deadline passed and waited for invitations. They never came. Read the rest of this entry »
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I am appealing to the British Public on a matter of urgency regarding the Science and Technology committee Evidence Check into homeopathy due to report on 22.2.10.
Why the Evidence Check into homeopathy was considered important at this juncture given all the challenges facing the nation is not clear, that the balance of witnesses called to give evidence was heavily weighted in favour of those against homeopathy there is no doubt, and several of those witnesses had no specialist knowledge of homeopathy at all.
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Read more about Evan Harris’s friends in Sense About Science
Evan Harris is the Liberal Democratic MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and he is also a principal investigator in the Science and Technology Committee’s Evidence Check on homeopathy. Evan Harris completed his IPT Fellowship with GlaxoSmithKline Ltd.
So why is he leading the sceptic anti homeopathy 10.23 campaign? Evan Harris also has links to Sense About Science, which he declared to the Science and Technology Committee’s Evidence Check on homeopathy.
Phil Willis is the Liberal Democrat MP for Harrowgate an Knaresborough, and he was a Member of the Science and Technology Commission into homeopathy, and he also has links to Sense About Science,
This is a scandalous conflict of interest!
Read more about Evan Harris and Phil Willis’s friends in Sense About Science,
So let’s get this straight – the Science and Technology Committee report into homeopathy and its recommendations that led to the media snow this week, and the dramatic assertion that the public have been duped since 1948 by NHS placebos masquerading as medicine, is the result of a report ratified by THREE MPs: TWO of whom were NOT EVEN PRESENT AT THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS – and ONE of the two was NOT EVEN A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE when the hearings were held, and is due to stand down at the election in May this year.
This Science and Technology Committee investigation into homeopathy was a set up and a sham from its inception to the final meeting and delivery of the report to the UK press. And there’s no “surely not” about it.
With thanks to US Magazine.com 3.2.2010:
On Monday, Tiger Woods’ wife Elin lifted her sunglasses to reveal puffy, dark-circles under her eyes as she picked up daughter Sam, 2, from school in Orlando. As usual, Elin, 30, was not wearing her wedding ring.
Us Weekly recently reported that Woods’ behavior has taken such a toll on Elin that she has lost nearly 10 pounds and turned to homeopathic remedies to fall asleep. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to the Daily Mail 26.1.2010:
Sales of alternative medicines are booming as consumers shake off their cynicism – proving the old adage there is no such thing as bad publicity!
Analysts say the market has grown by 18 per cent in two years and is worth £213million a year. And they predict sales will increase by 33 per cent to £282million over the next four years as more patients reject prescription drugs in favour of natural remedies. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to the European Commission website 8.1.2010:
This number tops the 100 million mark in the EU alone.
However, the challenge faced by CAM practitioners is the lack of funding and scientific cooperation that hampers this area of medicine. Enter the EU-funded CAMbrella project that is determined to solve this problem. With EUR 1.5 million in support under the ‘Health’ Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), CAMbrella kick-starts on 1 January 2010.
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With thanks to the Guardian Journalist Zac Goldsmith 5 January 2010:
Every few months, an organisation called Sense About Science (SAS) issues a pamphlet that makes fun of celebrities getting their science wrong. It is full of what it regards to be false assertions by celebrities about the benefits of homeopathy and so on, and ends with an offer by the organisation to act as a fact-checking service.
Newspapers always lap it up. The problem is that they have fallen into a trap again. While they quote Sense About Science with the kind of deference usually reserved for the Royal Society, the organisation is at best suspect. Read the rest of this entry »
With thanks to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:
Comparative evaluation of homeopathy and allopathy within the Parisian hospital system, 1849–1851 by Michael Dean, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2010;103:34-36, © 2010 Royal Society of Medicine,
Over a 15 year period and involving many thousands of patients, Jean Paul Tessier conducted an open trial comparing homeopathy with allopathy in the Sainte Marguerite Hospital, the Beaujon Hospital and the Enfants Malades Hospital, which ultimately proved so clearly in favour of homeopathy, it spread rapidly throughout Europe.
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Can someone please enlighten me how the supposed ‘placebo effect’ is relevant to the following:
http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-animal-studies/
http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-plant-studies/
http://avilian.co.uk/2008/08/scientific-research-and-homeopathy-overview/
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/
http://avilian.co.uk/2009/10/maria-curie-sklodowska-university-in-poland-proves-homeopathy/
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/
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