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Lyndsay Moss: Should the NHS really prescribe this hocus-pocus?



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Published Date: 08 July 2008
By Lyndsay Moss
IMAGINE going to see your doctor. He says you need to take a drug for your high blood pressure. The drug contains so little of the active substance said to reduce your blood pressure that not a single molecule of it can be found. Happy with that?
Probably not. But, according to the Society of Homeopaths, 30 million people across Europe are happy to accept this kind of explanation when they go to see one of its members.

It is hardly surprising that there are many sceptics of homeopathy, de...



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  • Last Updated: 07 July 2008 8:43 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 08/07/2008 12:41:10
Lyndsay: At last a truly balanced article about this mumbo-jumbo nonsense. Brilliant.
2

Rational cynic,

Edinburgh 08/07/2008 15:36:48
It's pretty simple - homeopathic medicines should be assessed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales, and by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) in Scotland.

If they pass the tests of safety, efficacy, and cost effectiveness then the NHS should continue to allow their use; if not then it shouldn't. My guess is they would not pass the tests of efficacy and cost effectiveness.
3

saneatheist,

Bixter 08/07/2008 21:07:28
What do Homeopaths offer people who are going to visit an area where there is a risk of malaria? A drink of water! Oh please! You may be OK if you use the water to take your anti malaria pills, but it'll be the pills that save you, not the water.
4

zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 08/07/2008 23:11:02
Well said, saneatheist! Homoeopathists selling their medicine-less medicines to prevent malaria are criminally irresponsible.
5

zeno,

www.thinkhumanism.com 08/07/2008 23:11:44
...and well said, Rational cynic, too!

 

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