What about the evidence base for homoeopathy?

Bewley and colleagues attack the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for advertising for new members for its Advisory Board on Registration of Homeopathic Products and imply that anyone who practises or researches homoeopathy is a quack or pseudoscientist.1 This is based on their unreferenced claim: “Homeopathy has definitively and repeatedly been proved to work no better than placebo or nocebo.”1

This claim is not based on evidence. On the contrary, evidence from meta-analyses and systematic reviews consistently shows that homoeopathy is effective in …