Skeptic Threatens to Sue Health Groups Who Support Homeopathy

ByChristina Sarich Hours Published on Hours Updated on

The National Health Service (NHS) is a healthcare organization in the UK. Simon Singh, a self-proclaimed ‘free speech’ activist who has tried to silence multiple website that promote good nutrition, supplements, and homeopathic remedies over ‘traditional’ medicine is threatening legal action against regional health authorities who are part of the NHS if they continue to give any support to homeopathy.

Singh apparently doesn’t like homeopathic remedies. He is asking up to 30 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) around the UK to review their funding of homeopathic services in their regions.

Singh is among other critics of homeopathy in the UK including Edzard Ernst and David Colquhoun, some of whom are also critical of pharmaceutical company abuse of scientific protocols. But is he really in a position to put such leverage on homeopathic remedies when some people swear by them?

Read: What the Homeopathy Controversy is Really All About

The issue isn’t much about homeopathy specifically as it is about suppressing alternative treatments/medicine. The biomedical paradigm has narrowed the view of the practice of medicine to the treatment of specific diseases with supposedly symptom-specific drugs and procedures. An integral aspect of this approach to medicine is the assumption that the larger the dose of a drug, the stronger will be its effects, but homeopathy works in direct contrast to this belief.

It stands to reason, that even if homeopathic treatments were not as effective as thousands attest, there would be no need for copious pharmaceutical doses of meds. If that were indeed the case, the US would be the healthiest country in the world, and it is far from that.

Singh is asking up to Liverpool’s CCG, for example, to evaluate its £30,000 annually spent on homeopathy.

The total NHS spends on homeopathy is around £3m each year.

Singh is threatening the CCGs with legal action if they do not review, and halt their expenditures on homeopathy, which he regards as a waste of taxpayers’ money.

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Featured at over 3,000 different alternative-health and consciousness-raising websites over the past decade, Christina Sarich has written over 10 books on curing cancer without chemo, brain hacking, habit formation, nutrition, yoga, positive psychology, brain entrainment with binaural beats, and meditation. She is an India-trained yoga teacher, technical writer, and author of Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga.

3 Comments

  1. blank Aivilo Truoccm says:

    Homeopathy is what was around before Big Pharma. These bums at are not about to let of go of a racket that earns them billions every year. Start stocking up people it is only going to get worse. People in Europe are buying what they need over here and other places that the boot has not come down on. Also get some literature on how to use herbs and oils. herbsplusbeadworks on youtube.

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  2. blank sabelmouse says:

    the medical monopoly was hard won and won’t be given up without a fight. and really, he’s a pseudo skeptic.

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