In a report published today, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee of the UK decided that homeopathy is nothing more than a placebo and should not be provided by the National health Service, as it has been since its establishment in 1948. the group also recommended that medicines and healthcare products Agency regulation of UK safety guard dog drug license should stop over-the-counter homeopathic medicines that have not proven effective in randomized controlled trials (ie all of them).
These verdicts are not a complete shock since the Committee of Science and common technology includes members of Parliament who have chosen to serve on a committee established to oversee the basis of scientific evidence of government policy . The panel even went so far as to reject calls for more research, concluding that "there has been enough testing of homeopathy and plenty of evidence showing that it is not effective."
In addition, the report accuses the British Homeopathic Association (BHA), who presented evidence to the panel of cherry picking, and even, in one case actively misrepresenting the research on treatment (a famous study which concluded its findings were "consistent with the notion that the clinical effects of homeopathy are placebo effects" was cited by the BHA as evidence of the effectiveness of treatment.) MPs conclude that "defenders of homeopathy ... choose to rely on, and promulgate, selective approaches for the treatment of the evidence base. "
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