Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century
Defending Choice in Medicine
H:MC21 is a charity established to counter the unfounded propaganda against homeopathy by informing the public of the facts about homeopathy and its historical and scientific relationship to orthodox medicine.
It will do this through research, publication and campaigning.
Clicking on the links below will take you directly to various aspects of our campaign
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Charity no. 1124711
Registered address: Poppyseed Cottage,
High Street, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk PE33 9SF
Welcome to H:MC21
Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century is based in the UK and exists to campaign for homeopathy and to provide access to information and research for homeopaths, patients and others interested in supporting diversity in medical approaches.
As part of our work we provide information about the unscientific nature of the attacks on homeopathy, and on this site, on our allied one (www.homeopathyworkedforme.org), and in our newsletter we provide arguments, information and research for those who want to defend homeopathy.
New leaflet available
A new leaflet is available which provides an overview of the key arguments relating to the attacks on homeopathy, showing that they lack any medical or scientific validity. It covers the importance of the Swiss HTA; the history of the attacks on homeopathy; and the problems with RCTs.
"There is no argument against homeopathy which stands up to scientific scrutiny. They are simply slogans, distortions and downright lies."
Award for H:MC21 founder
William Alderson, one of the founders of H:MC21, has won the Society of Homeopaths' Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution to homeopathy.
Zofia Dymitr, Chairwoman of the Society's Board described William as a "force for the good of homeopathy". You only have to look at this website and the numerous reports, critiques and studies which can be downloaded to get some idea of why. His enormous commitment over the last 4 years and more has been invaluable in giving confidence to homeopaths and patients, and in exposing the hypocrisy of homeopathy's critics. Read more ...
Expert evidence in support of homeopathy published in English for the first time
Homeopathy In Healthcare is the first publication in English of the health technology assessment (HTA) of homeopathy commissioned by the Swiss government.
This HTA concluded:
“that the individual CAM interventions, especially homeopathy, were effective, under Swiss conditions safe and, as far as could be judged from the trial situation, also cost-efficient”.
Homeopathy In Healthcare also explicitly rejects the meta-analysis by Shang et al. published in the Lancet in 2005. This meta-analysis has been the key element in most of the attacks on homeopathy since then, despite the fact that it was exposed as unreliable within a year of publication. The research on which the meta-analysis was based was commissioned for the Swiss HTA, so the rejection of Shang's conclusions by the authors of the HTA is a damning indictment indeed.
William Alderson has reviewed this book for H:MC21.
H:MC21's critique of Trick or Treatment? by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst is still available here. Trick or Treatment? also had so many flaws that is was not scientifically reliable, but many of its arguments continue to be used by others as though they were still credible.
For more information click here.
New praise for Halloween Science has been published in Dirty Medicine: The Handbook (London: Slingshot Publications, 2011). Its author has said that:
Halloween Science, is exceptional and brilliantly titled
and
This is undoubtedly how writing should be used, as a weapon
Advertising Standards Authority adjudication
The advertising Standards Authority (ASA) spent ten months investigating complaints about H:MC21's advertisement in the Care supplement of the New Statesman magazine in the autumn of 2010.
H:MC21 is currently waiting for the results of its appeal against the adjudication.
For more information about the investigation and the ASA's adjudication click here.
Edzard Ernst Admits to Having No Homeopathic Credentials
August 2010: H:MC21 translated the interview that Edzard Ernst gave to the German National Association of Homeopathic Physicians in April 2010 in which he admits he has no qualifications in homeopathy, despite having claimed repeatedly that he is a trained homeopath.
For our comments, press release and full interview click here.
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