Carol Boyce's Blog – February 2010 Archive (3)

The report following the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee Evidence Check into homeopathy is due to be published any day now.



Homeopaths should expect a critical report given the way the Check was handled.

Why it was even on the agenda when the UK is currently challenged on so many serious issues we can only surmise.

Why the witnesses called were overwhelmingly anti-homeopathy (6 out of 9) and several of them with no real understanding of what homeopathy is and… Continue

The UK 1023 'mass overdose' on January 31st was a publicity stunt that only served yet again to show how ill-informed this group is about homeopathy, and how it works.



The videos that are posted online showed small groups in various UK cities earnestly doing their ‘bit for science’.



But where do these people get their information? Who up the chain of command feeds them lines like: “When they make a remedy they dilute it and dilute it until there is nothing left except water… Continue

Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Science Minister and member of the BMA Medical Ethical Committee since 1999, sits on the Science and Technology Committee carrying out the Evidence Check on homeopathy. By his own statement to the committee he has also worked with Sense About Science on numerous issues and 'has argued with Ben Goldacre many times over the years." One might wonder who put forward the witnesses for the Evidence Check, which included Tracy Brown, Director of Sense About… Continue