Another “alt-med smackdown” as homeopathy described as “witchcraft”
Oh, how I loves me an alt-med smackdown: at a meeting of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors, Dr. Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman, said:
Homeopathy is witchcraft. It is a disgrace that nestling between the National Hospital for Neurology and Great Ormond Street [in London] there is a National Hospital for Homeopathy which is paid for by the NHS [National Health Service].
Ha! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Despite what homeopaths say, homeopathy has been shown beyond any reasonable doubt to have no effect above that of a placebo. That won’t stop homeopaths from still claiming it works; they’ll use anecdotes, they’ll use evidence distorted and twisted into a Möbius strip, or they’ll simply make stuff up.
Amen.
Whilst it is certainly an utter disgrace that the NHS indulge in such nonsense at we taxpayers expense, let us please not forget that the likes of Boots and Co-op pharmacies peddle this junk up and down the land.The gullible amongst us believe in such woo because such respected high street names give it credibility.Oh, and don’t even get me started on magnetic bracelets and crystals also available at the above.