It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week! - April 14, 2008
We’re now in the middle of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (don’t worry if you hadn’t noticed – apparently it works better if the attention paid to it is so small as to be hardly there at all).
“Homeopathic remedies can be of use at the moment of injury as First Aid and also for long- term injuries that cause complications such as stiffening of joints and enduring pain,” says Indrani Meier, vice chair of the World Homeopathic Awareness Organization.
Sceptics of the world are being, well, sceptical about this. Strangely searching for people writing about ‘World Homeopathy Awareness Week’ throws up more sceptics than homeopathy supporters.
Round up below the fold...
Skepchick has a point by point refulation (of sorts) of some of the claims from the WHAO in their day by day series (not suitable for young children, or homeopaths).
Over at Denialism, PalMD declares: “Well, I can get behind a public service like this. My contribution will be a side-to-side comparison of a homeopathic treatment and a real one. Let's pick a fun disease, say, heart attacks (the website I found offered homeopathic remedies for anthrax, but I think I'll skip that).”
Not specifically related to this week, but interesting none the less, is Science Based Medicine’s recent analysis of the ethics of trials of homeopathy in Third World countries.
The Sceptical Rants blog takes apart the British Homeopathic Association’s FAQs.
Finally, for those who enjoy reading grumpy columnists (and who doesn’t) here’s a very grumpy column by an English doctor who is not a huge fan of patients asking for homeopathy.
And we didn’t even mention Ben Goldacre...
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