Author: Dr David Levy
Introduction
By any reckoning, homeopathy has sustained an intellectual and psychological buffeting in recent years, creating a global ‘dark night of the soul’ for its practitioners and adherents alike. Culminating in the 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) report asserting that there is ‘no health condition for which homeopathy has any reliable evidence’1, the Australian profession has sustained institutional assaults from organisations including Friends of Science in Medicine, as well as being neglected from within the broader CAM industry due to internal blindness. Homeopathy has been, as in times past, ‘hung out to dry’, left to defend itself and its adherents. In this opinion piece, I discuss some of the key recent events and reflect on their professional, and at times personal, impact. I ask what perhaps needs to change for homeopathy to re-emerge intellectually and morally bolstered, ready to face the daylight.