Petition about Homeopathy in Hungary
Prof. Zsolt Boldogkői, molecular biologist, head of Department of Medical Biology at University of Szeged (Hungary) launched a petition among fellow scientists and physicians today with the title:...
View ArticleHungarian Academy of Sciences statement proposing the same scientific...
Members of the Section of Medical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) voted unanimously for supporting the earlier proposal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Swedish...
View Article1943 dissertation critical of homeopathy now online
In 1943, David Karel de Jongh M.D. defended a Ph.D. dissertation on homeopathy, which he ended by concluding that homeopathy should be abolished. He based his judgment on his meticulous examination of...
View ArticleHomeopathy is advertised on TV by wellknown actors and actresses
Hungarian Society of Homeopaths (MHOE) launched a controversial TV advertisement campaign with testimonies of well known actors and actresses. This caused an uproar in the scientific community...
View ArticleWhat are the beliefs of the Swedish public? – The VoF Study
False ideas both historically and today, have in many cases led to disastrous consequences. To achieve a deeper knowledge of how Swedes today relate to these questions, VoF (aka the Swedish Skeptic...
View ArticleState-funded homeopathy declines in Scotland
The decline of state-funded homeopathic treatment within the National Health Service in England and Wales has been well documented for some time now. Now the Nightingale Collaboration has reported...
View ArticleReport on NHS Funding for Homeopathy in Wirral
The Good Thinking Society has just reported that ‘Following a lengthy public consultation by NHS Wirral CCG on the funding of homeopathy and Iscador therapy (mistletoe extract), the CCG has published a...
View ArticleFarmaCiencia’s campaign against homeopathy got a boost from…Edzard Ernst!!!
FarmaCiencia’s campaign by ethical pharmacists to get homeopathy kicked out of pharmacies received a great tweet of support by none other than Edzard Ernst. Please retweet to your heart’s content....
View ArticleAn anti-homeopathy editorial in leading Spanish national paper, El Pais.
El Pais, on 3 October, published an editorial supporting Spanish pharmacists who want to get homeopathy kicked out of pharmacies. The author clearly states the opinion (that skeptics share) that...
View ArticleWirral CCG drops funding for homeopathy and Iscador
Earlier this year Liverpool CCG stopped funding homeopathy thanks in large part to Michael Marshall and the Good Thinking Society. (In England, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are responsible for...
View ArticleHomeopathy is safe, belief in it isn’t
Belgian philosopher Maarten Boudry (SKEPP member) wrote in an NRC Handelsblad opinion piece that medicines that rely solely on the placebo effect have one vital ingredient that patients need to supply...
View ArticleSkeptics’ Mass Suicide Attempt
Skeptics in several European cities have taken homeopathic overdoses today to show there’s nothing in it. Despite the lack of any active ingredients, manufacturers and homeopaths claim it becomes...
View ArticleSociety of Homeopaths and advertising
In the UK, advertisements thought to be misleading may be reported to the Advertising Standards Agency. The ASA will investigate them and may instruct that the advert must be amended or withdrawn....
View ArticleMemorandum “About pseudoscientific status of the homeopathy” by Russian...
The Committee Against Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences has prepared a memorandum “About pseudoscientific status of the...
View ArticleNHS England boss slams spending on homeopathy
Responding to concerns that NHS England’s plans to stop prescribing some medicines as part of cost-cutting measures, but still spends £4 million on homeopathic medicine, Simon Stevens, chief executive...
View ArticleNHS consultation on unjustified prescribing
This July the National Health Service in England published a report with the title ‘Items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care: A Consultation on guidance for CCGs’. The report...
View ArticleHomeopathy in England
England’s National Health Service has said it is going to ‘formally request’ that the Government ban GPs from prescribing homeopathy. The post Homeopathy in England appeared first on European Skeptics.
View ArticleRemember the 18th ESC?
If you want to remind yourself of all the thought-provoking talks and lectures delivered at the 18th ESC, or, if you weren’t there and want to know what was said, here’s your chance! The talks are now...
View ArticleCelebrated homeopathy study based on data manipulation and falsification
In 2020, a clinical trial of homeopathic adjunctive treatment for patients with advanced lung cancer was published in the prestigious medical journal The Oncologist. It seemed to reveal sensational...
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