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Benefits and risks of Homoeopathy: a rejoinder to the article published in the Lancet

New DelhiBenefits and risks of Homoeopathy: a rejoinder to the article published in the Lancet Prof. Chaturbhuja Nayak Director, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy New Delhi, INDIA

The Lancet has recently published a comment entitled “Benefits and risks of homoeopathy”

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Homeopathy Worked For Me Campaign

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.

Actresses Jenny SeagroveJenny Seagrove and Michelle CollinsMichelle Collins, along with actor karl collinsCarl Myers (Karl Collins), TV presenter Gaby RoslinGaby Roslin and well known obstetrician Yehudi GordonYehudi Gordon have all this week confirmed their public support for this campaign.

More news in relation to this will be posted in the next few weeks.

Aneurin Bevan and Homeopathy

Aneurin BevanAneurin Bevan was a supporter of homeopathy and in 1945, he introduced the National health Service to the United Kingdom.

Bevan promised that:

”homeopathic institutions will be enabled to provide their own form of treatment and that the continuity of the characteristics of those institutions will be maintained”.*

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Paralogisms of scientific journalism

Paralogisms of scientific journalismWith thanks to Jonathan Treasure:

In this cutting and articulate letter to the editor of  Homeopathy regarding a NYT article by the infamous Dan Hurley the author of the letter points out the fundamental paradox of mainstream views of homeopathy (and herbs) which is simply that they are claimed to be BOTH dangerous yet ineffective at the same time.

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Martin J. Walker Writes…..

martin j walkerThrough 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 .

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Homeopathy Worked For Me Campaign

inspirationWould 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

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Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism

martin walkerCultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism is Martin Walker’s fourth book charting the development of the corporate science lobby that has grown rapidly since New Labour came to power in 1997. One of the most recent exponents of the Lobby is Dr Ben Goldacre who has regurgitated a bad ‘Science’ column in the Guardian newspaper since 2003.

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Responses from signatories to Homeopathy Parliamentary Early Day Motion

parliamentWith thanks to Statistical Political

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 (Tom Whipple Guardian Journalist) sent them all the following email:

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Freedom Means Choice

Defending choice in medicine

H:MC21 was set up in September 2007 to inform the public about homeopathy and its relation to orthodox medicine.

It will do this through research, publication and campaigning.

freedom

Campaign

Our first project is to counter the wave of negative publicity by collecting signatures to the following declaration:

Homeopathy worked for me

 

!Please visit the site and sign the online petition now!

Attacks on Homeopathy are funded by big pharma via Sense About Science

liesYour 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.

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.)

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