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Early Day Motions on homeopathy

DavidTredinnick has tabled four Early Day Motions (284-287).
The text of these is on our Early Day Motions page.

Demonstration outside the BMA conference on 29 June 2010

See the BMA Protest page.

A Spate of Attacks

Scotland: NHS Greater Glasgow and the Clyde Health Board are planning to scrap the rotation of junior doctors through the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital (see the report in The Herald). Our response is on the Commentary page.

Junior Doctors: The British Medical Association junior doctors' conference has called on the NHS to stop funding homeopathy (see the report in The Telegraph). Our response is on the Commentary page.

Northern Ireland: The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has published a consultation paper. We have made a formal complaint on the grounds that it breaches the PSNI's Code of Ethics.

All of these attacks seem to be based on the Commons Science and Technology Committe's Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy, even though this report was profoundly flawed and self-contradictory (see our Critique of the report for more details). The report was supported by only 3 members of a committee of 14 MPs. Of these 3 only one (Evan Harris) had attended the hearings. He has shown himself to be violently opposed to homeopathy and he now has a position with Sense About Science after losing his seat at the General Election.

Sense About Science has been behind many of the attacks on homeopathy over the last five years, so it seems likely that it is behind these current ones too.