Similia Vol 34 No 1 – June 2021

Author: Dr Isaac Golden PhD

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry has a long history of attacking homeopathy. The Flexner report in the USA in 1910 was a negative turning point in that  country for natural medicine in general and homeopathy in particular. More recently, the attack that originated in the UK in 2005 with the Shang article and the accompanying Lancet editorial marked a new intensive by the pharmaceutical drug cartels (PDCs) to discredit homeopathy as a  legitimate healing modality. The subsequent UK House of Commons Report on Homeopathy published in 2010 relied on the discredited Shang analysis. Its recommendations were not accepted by the UK Parliament.

In Australia, the UK initiative was followed by the formation in 2013 of the deceitfully named Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM) whose stated aim was and is to prevent the use of all forms of natural medicine, but especially homeopathy. The group has infiltrated Australia’s peak science institutes and was instrumental in the 2015 report by the NHMRC claiming that there was no evidence that homeopathy was effective, and their following reports making similar claims against 16 other natural medicine modalities.