Case in point: yoga and meditation often get lumped in with nonsense like homeopathy and chakras.
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So there is a place for alternative medicine, but homeopathy is just a fraud.
He is also known to be a supporter of homeopathy, despite many experts doubting its effectiveness.
Spending on homeopathy in the English NHS has been shrinking, with many funders withdrawing NHS cash altogether.
The practice of replacing conventional vaccines with homeopathic alternatives has been condemned by the Faculty of Homeopathy.
So I ask Fancy Hands to research a course of home treatment involving homeopathy and herbal medicine.
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They can get an array of virtually free services, from false teeth and glasses to psychoanalysis and homeopathy.
Randi has recently offered one million dollars to any homeopath that can prove scientifically that homeopathy works.
Believers in acupuncture, naturopathy, Reiki, and homeopathy will argue that they are not unethical, because the treatments work.
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Police in Feni have reportedly arrested a local homeopathy doctor suspected of being the source of the contaminated alcohol.
Homeopathy is not proven and it's not evidence-based, and that is a concern.
Homeopathy is one of the most absurd, wildly implausible forms of quack medicine.
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Emotional intelligence sells well, but scientific evidence supporting it is almost as solid as that supporting the effectiveness of homeopathy.
This would be awfully difficult for naturopaths, whose practices include homeopathy, colloidal silver treatments, and chelation therapy, to name but a few.
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The Act was authored primarily by a Senator who believed in homeopathy.
Any beliefs he thought pseudoscientific, such as homeopathy, Scientology, creationism, anthroposophy, spoon-bending, astrology and flying saucers, he would dismiss with cool efficiency.
For the right kind of skepticism, take James Randi on homeopathy.
Magic or Medicine - Homeopathy and the NHS which will be shown on BBC One Scotland on Monday, 13 September at 1930 BST.
But she added it was too complex to say GPs were turning against the therapy, suggesting collection methods may miss some homeopathy therapies.
Although homeopathy doesn't work in formal studies, it does not mean it might not help certain individuals, and your child might be one of them.
Even in the absence of plausible theory (or just common sense), rigorous clinical testing could provide evidence of homeopathy's effectiveness, but the data suggest otherwise.
There has never been a shred of scientific evidence to support it, and the British Medical Association declared in 2010 that homeopathy is witchcraft.
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The silver lining in the very big business that is homeopathy?
My fellow Forbes contributors Erik Kain and Steven Salzberg have both penned excellent pieces about homeopathy, and I encourage you to read both of them.
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In the U.K., the number of Bachelor of Science degrees in alternative medicine has grown over the past decade, and six institutions actually offer a degree in homeopathy.
In the U.S., the American Medical Association offers physicians Continuing Medical Education credits (a certain number of which are required to maintain a medical license) for attending courses on homeopathy.
They must inhabit an alternate reality, where magical forces flow through and around the body, and magical, pseudoscientific treatments like acupuncture, healing touch, magnet therapy, and homeopathy somehow really work.
The programme, Magic or Medicine - Homeopathy and the NHS, has also uncovered evidence that the NHS in Scotland is spending far more per person on homeopathy than its English counterpart.
In addition, the theory of homeopathy actually defies conventional scientific understanding--in particular, the law of mass action, which demands that the rates of chemical reactions be proportional to the concentrations of substances involved.
Professor Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and a vocal critic of homeopathy, said the huge drop in prescribing reflected a shift in attitude within the medical profession.
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