Homeopathy and intellectual honesty

Fisher, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.homp.2017.10.001

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“…During the last triennial period, there have been proactive movements in some western countries, promoted by scientific and regulatory institutions, to stop national health systems from financing homeopathy treatments due to a lack of scientific evidence. Homeopathy is deemed a complementary or alternative therapy because its efficacy has not been scientifically proven [Gibson, 2018;Vithoulkas, 2017;Fisher, 2017;Ministerio de Sanidad, Política Social e Igualdad, 2011], and when it has been proved, its effectiveness is no greater than the placebo effect [Cucherat et al, 2000;Howe, Goyer and Crum, 2017;Mathie et al, 2017;Loeb et al, 2018;Zion and Crum, 2018]. Hence, homeopathy is considered to be a practice based on theoretical principles which are not backed by science, which is why it is also called a "pseudoscience" or "facsimile science" [Oreskes, 2017].…”

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The rise of skepticism in Spanish political and digital media contexts

Cano‐Orón¹,

Mendoza²,

Moreno-Castro³

2019

JCOM

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Currently in Spain, there is a political and social debate over the use and sale of homeopathic products, which is promoted mainly by the skeptical movement. For the first time, this issue has become significant in political discourse. This study analyzes the role that homeopathy-related stories are playing in that political debate. We analyzed the viewpoints of headlines between 2015 and 2017 in eight digital dailies (n = 1,683), which published over 30 stories on homeopathy during the three-year study period. The results indicated that the stance on therapy's lack of scientific evidence gained ground during the period studied.

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