An article in the Glasgow Evening times reports that spokespeople for the Scottish Government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have stated that Gartnavel Homeopathic hosptial will retain NHS funding. Despite the recent House of Commons Select committees damning report on homeopathy and the vast weight of scientific evidence that shows it is no better than a placebo.
This is not good enough – NHS patients deserve to recieve real treatment. We encourage you to write to your MSP and protest this decision.
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How does homeopathic medicine work? Open-minded investigators now belive it’s all down to the activities of a special kind of creature known as a “sex mouse”. But do we even know what a sex mouse is? Or even what it might be? No. But that’s no barrier to our understanding argues Boris Cockpop.
Many of us in the skeptical and science communities will think well of Brian Deer – for his great work as an investigative journalist exposing Wakefield and the MMR scandal. However do recent comments made on Australian radio show that perhaps he holds some similar prejudices and misunderstandings of how science works and is published that seem depressingly common among journalists?
Today sees the publication of the select committee’s report on homeopathy.
Here we collate some of the best reporting on this from the blogosphere (if we have missed your take on the report please let us know in the comments) and we respond to Princes Charles “Foundation for Integrative health” press release.
Specifically to the idea that lying to your patients is more dignified than seeking evidence based treatments for them.
