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Rapid response to:

News

Giving homoeopathy on the NHS is unethical and unreliable, MPs are told

BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b5080 (Published 27 November 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b5080

Rapid Response:

The Evidence is Sufficient

The evidence base for homeopathy is easily sufficient for it to
remain in the NHS. Taking a range of evidence including systematic
reviews, RCTs, outcome studies and trials comparing its effectiveness with
conventional treatments gives homeopathy an evidence profile that matches
or surpasses those of a whole range of interventions currently practised
in the NHS. If homeopathy is to go, then the so-called experts who gave
opposing evidence at this highly unbalanced hearing must, by their own
criteria, have the integrity to raise their hands and admit that there is
a whole raft of other interventions used daily in the NHS that must go
too.
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Competing interests:
A practising homeopath and General Secretary of the European Central Council of Homeopaths

Competing interests: No competing interests

27 November 2009
Stephen J Gordon
A practising homeopath and General Secretary of the European Central Council of Homeopaths
Norfolk Clinic NR3 4AG