“In Defense of Homeopathy”

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One of the automatic links generated by WordPress for a previous blogpost led to this, which turned out to be a cut-and-paste job of Jeanette Winterson’s article “In Defense of Homeopathy” from the 13 November 2007 edition of The Guardian.

Homeopathy Awareness Week

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I gather that last week was “Homeopathy Awareness Week“. Doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact which is a shame because people really need to be informed about homeopathy and be aware of what it actually is.

“Homeopathic Practitioners”

[BPSDB]More of Louise Mclean’s ‘Facts’ about Homeopathy , this time on homeopathic practitioners.

Jeremy Sherr Is Not Happy

[BPSDB]Jeremy Sherr does not like criticism, it would appear. See here where he accuses us all of being part of the Pharmaceutical Inquisition and claims that he has never touted homeopathy as an alternative to ARVs and that to say otherwise is libellous.

Woo Will Kill

[BPSDB]The homeopaths never give up on their healing fantasies. I have just been reading this thread on the Bad Science forum.

Why I Oppose Homeopathy

Homeopaths, particularly the non-medically qualified such as Sue Young, claim that their opponents either do not understand homeopathy or are in the pay of Big Pharma.

AIDS, Malaria, Homeopathy & Southern Africa

I’ve been reading about the Maun Homeopathy Clinic in Botswana here. It is a depressingly dangerous combination of danger, delusion and humanitarianism.

Patricia Moroney Pwned

I snail-mailed my response to the SoH “investigation” on Saturday, so Patricia Moroney should have it by now. As promised, here is the text of my letter:

The Society of Homeopaths Investigates!!

I was thinking of blogging about something other than homeopathy and the SoH but yesterday (6 November) I finally received a reply to my complaint about Sue Young, so I thought I’d share it with you. I’ll type it in green with my comments in the usual black for contrast.

Who to Believe?

It’s November, the month of leaf-fall, fireworks and bonfires. Judging by the smell surrounding the latest SoH press release, somebody is burning underpants rather than leaves on their bonfire this year.

 Nick Cohen of the Observer seems to have rattled their cage this time. I notice that once again the SoH is claiming that the makers of the Newsnight expose failed to produce a single example of a Society member giving dangerous and misleading advice. I thought I would contact Sense About Science and ask them about this. Arathi Prasad, their Public Liaison bod, very kindly and promptly replied and said that in fact Sense About Science did supply a transcript that named a Society member to the SoH. This directly contradicts the SoH position so who should I believe? On the one hand, we have researchers who have filmed evidence to back up their assertions, on the other we have a self-styled professional and regulatory body that not only ignores complaints from members of the public as you can see from reading my post “The Society of Homeopaths – A Pretense of Professionalism”  but also breaks its own Code of Ethics on its own website, as Gimpy has shown I was going to dismember their letter to the Observer in more detail but unfortunately Gimpy has beaten me to it.