From its very beginnings, homeopathy has had its critics and, like every scientific endeavour, has caused a lively debate. In the recent past, the debate between colleagues from the homeopathic and conventional medical sectors has spread to the media and governments, and taken on the appearance of a witch hunt.
2016 attack by sceptics against AHA professional members.
After National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NH&MRC) had published its ‘Homeopathy Review’ in 2015, stating that there was no ‘reliable evidence’ for the efficacy of homeopathy in any condition, an in-depth investigation revealed multiple flaws in the report.
‘Homeopathy in the age of evidence-based medicine’, an article written by homeopath Noam Bar discusses how attitudes in the homeopathic profession may have adding to the scepticism against homeopathy.
Article by S Clare Stanford, reader in experimental psychopharmacology about maintaining consumers’ right to an informed choice. It was one of the carrying arguments for keeping homeopathy available on the UK National Health Service in 2011.
A pressure group in the UK called the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) issued a press release about homeopathy, claiming to speak on behalf of the World Health Organisation.
Article: ‘Is Homoeopathy a Science? – Continuity and Clash of Concepts of Science within Holistic Medicine’ by Josef M. Schmidt (2009).
In 2009 Dr Simon Singh visited Australia to promote a book he and Edzard Ernst had written: ‘Trick or Treatment?: Alternative medicine on trial’. The AHA responded with a press release and response to Dr Singh.
In December 2008, The Australian published a polemic article by its Health Editor entitled ‘No alternative’. The AHA responded with a letter to the editor.
Rachel Roberts, currently of the Homeopathy Research Institute, UK, the well-researched article ‘Integration of homoeopathy into primary care’ in 2008, discussing the integration of homoeopathy into the UK healthcare system.
In November 2007 The Lancet published an article ‘New evidence for homeopathy’. The European Council for Classical Homeopathy (ECCH) responded with a press release disproving that statement.
The opposition that homeopathy has experienced over the last couple of decades had its origin in the UK.
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