No.
It is considered unethical for modern medical practitioners to sink to this kind of deception that denies the patient his or her autonomy. Secondly, by opening the door to irrational medicine alongside evidence-based medicine, we are poisoning the minds of the public. Finally, if we don’t put a brake on the increasing self-confidence of the homeopathic establishment, they will cease to limit their attention to self-limiting or nonspecific maladies.
More, from Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst, writing in this month’s American Journal of Medicine, here.
November 19, 2009 at 5:19 am |
Homeopathy cures even when Conventional Allopathic Medicine (CAM) fails
November 21, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
I don’t think you read the article. Homeopathy cannot cure anything, as it’s an elaborate placebo system – it’s literally water. Don’t confuse correlation with causality.