Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century

Quotation:

• Gudrun Bornhöft and Peter Matthiessen (eds), Homeopathy in Healthcare – Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs: An HTA report on homeopathy as part of the Swiss Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme, trans. from the German by Margaret M Saar (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011), p. 3.

 

Expertise:

• Gudrun Bornhöft and Peter Matthiessen (eds), Homeopathy in Healthcare – Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs: An HTA report on homeopathy as part of the Swiss Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme, trans. from the German by Margaret M Saar (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011), pp. 230-234.

 

Shang et al.:

• Aijing Shang, Karin Huwiler-Müntener, Linda Nartey, Peter Jüni, Stephan Dörig, Jonathan AC Sterne, Daniel Pewsner and Prof Matthias Egger, ‘Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy’, The Lancet, 366 (2005), 726-732.

 

Criticisms of Shang:

• Klaus Linde, Wayne B. Jonas, ‘Meta-analysis of homoeopathy trials’ (letter to the editor), The Lancet, 9503 (2005) at <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67878-6/fulltext>, accessed 3 March 2009.

•  Peter Fisher, Brian Berman, Jonathan Davidson, David Reilly, Trevor Thompson and 29 others, Letter to the editor, The Lancet, 9503 (2005) at <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67879-8/fulltext>, accessed 3 March 2009.

•  R. Lüdtke and A. L. B. Rutten, ‘The conclusions on the effectiveness of homeopathy highly depend on the set of analyzed trials’, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, (2008) at <http://www.aekh.at/fileadmin/Bilder/Hom_opathie_int/LuedtkeRuttenJCE08.pdf>.

• A. L. B. Rutten and C. F. Stolper, ‘The 2005 meta-analysis of homeopathy: the importance of post-publication data’, Homeopathy, 2008 at <http://www.aekh.at/fileadmin/Bilder/Hom_opathie_int/RuttenStolperHomeopathyarticle.pdf>, both accessed 15 April 2009.

• Gudrun Bornhöft and Peter Matthiessen (eds), Homeopathy in Healthcare – Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs: An HTA report on homeopathy as part of the Swiss Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme, trans. from the German by Margaret M Saar (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011), pp. 39-44.

 

Sense About Science:

• Chris Tyler, Sense About Homeopathy (London: Sense About Science, 2006).

• William Alderson, Nonsense, Not Science, (Stoke Ferry: Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century, 2011).

 

Parliament:

• CSaP Appoints New Executive Director’, Centre for Policy and Science, Cambridge University, 15 March 2010 at <http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/news/article-csap-appoints-new-executive-director/>.

• House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy (London: The Stationery Office Limited, 2010), pp. 48-50.

• William Alderson, ‘A Check Without Balance’, Counterfire, 2010.

 

Trick or Treatment:

• Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, Trick or Treatment? Alternative medicine on trial (London: Bantam Press, 2008).

• William Alderson, Halloween Science (Stoke Ferry: Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century, 2009).

• Sense About Science trustees <http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/about/>.

 

RCTs:

• House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy, 2010, p. Ev 144.

• R.P. El Dib, A.N. Atallah, R.B. Andriolo, ‘Mapping the Cochrane evidence for decision making in health care’, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 13 (2007), 689–692.

• BMJ Clinical Evidence website as accessed on 7 July 2010. However, this information now appears to have been withdrawn from the website, presumably because of the fact that it opens conventional medicine up to valid criticism.

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