HOMEOPATHY A HOAX

Homoeopathy is nonsense, say British doctors

London, June 30, PTI:

Millions in India and elsewhere swear by homoeopathy, but the British Medical Association says it is ''nonsense'' and should be banned from use in the National Health Service.

The NHS should stop funding homoeopathy and it should no longer be marketed as a medicine in pharmacies on the ground that it is little more than ‘pernicious nonsense’, according to doctors at the annual conference of the BMA in Brighton. BMA doctors committee vice-chair Tom Dolphin, who first proposed banning homoeopathy at the BMA annual junior doctors conference in May, said: “I got into trouble for saying at the juniors conference that homoeopathy is witchcraft.” Criticism Piling on criticism against homoeopathy, Dolphin said: “I take that back and apologise to the witches I apparently offended by association. Homoeopathy isn’t witchcraft — it is nonsense on stilts. It is pernicious nonsense that feeds into a rising wave of irrationality that threatens the hard won gains of the enlightenment, and the scientific method.”