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The UK Wants To Blacklist Homeopathy | IFLScience - 0 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 14 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Ministers in the U.K. are considering banning homeopathy from the treatments that can be prescribed by doctors working for the National Health Service (NHS). At the moment, the NHS spends £4 million ($6 million) on homeopathic prescriptions and hospitals every year
  • "Given the finite resources of the NHS, any spending on homeopathy is utterly unjustifiable. The money spent on these disproven remedies can be far better spent on treatments that offer real benefits to patients," Simon Singh, founder of the Good Thinking Society, said in a statement.
  • The positive effects from homeopathy come exclusively from the placebo effect, a physiological response to a harmless substance that leads to a reduction in symptoms from an ailment
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  • gnorance is not a fundamental tenant of experiencing the placebo effect, though.
  • Another issue with homeopathy is that the patients are not informed of what homeopathy is and how the placebo effect works. In 2012, the UK Science and Technology Committee addressed the ethics of it.
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FDA Ponders Putting Homeopathy To A Tougher Test : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 20 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • In 1988, the Food and Drug Administration decided not to require homeopathic remedies to go through the same drug-approval process as standard medical treatments. Now the FDA is revisiting that decision. It will hold two days of hearings this week to decide if homeopathic remedies should have to be proven safe and effective.
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Meet the anti-Dr. Oz: Ben Goldacre - Vox - 0 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 08 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Over the years, Goldacre has taken on everyone from sloppy journalists to pharmaceutical executives, vitamin proprietors, and disingenuous academics. He has illuminated the evidence, and lack thereof, behind detox footbaths, homeopathy, and ear candling. And, with every debunking, he has left behind lessons in the scientific method, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. His writing has changed policy and informed the public at a time when few in the media stand up for science in health.
  • Giving people a ten-point plan about how to spot bad science isn’t going to help those people because they probably don’t care about science. I don’t think you can reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.
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