Dr Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB Department, WHO: “Our evidence-based WHO TB treatment/management guidelines, as well as the International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) do not recommend use of homeopathy.”Dr Mukund Uplekar, TB Strategy and Health Systems, WHO: “WHO’s evidence-based guidelines on treatment of tuberculosis…have no place for homeopathic medicines.”
Dr Teguest Guerma, Director Ad Interim, HIV/AIDS Department, WHO: “The WHO Dept. of HIV/AIDS invests considerable human and financial resources [...] to ensure access to evidence-based medical information and to clinically proven, efficacious, and safe treatment for HIV… Let me end by congratulating the young clinicians and researchers of Sense About Science for their efforts to ensure evidence-based approaches to treating and caring for people living with HIV.”
Dr Sergio Spinaci, Associate Director, Global Malaria Programme, WHO: “Thanks for the amazing documentation and for whistle blowing on this issue… The Global Malaria programme recommends that malaria is treated following the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria.”
Joe Martines, on behalf of Dr Elizabeth Mason, Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO: “We have found no evidence to date that homeopathy would bring any benefit to the treatment of diarrhoea in children…Homeopathy does not focus on the treatment and prevention of dehydration - in total contradiction with the scientific basis and our recommendations for the management of diarrhoea."
So here's a question:
What does all that say about Whole Foods having a Whole Section™ provided for "homeopathic treatments"? Or that "homeopathic treatments" are sold at all? Or that homeopaths are viewed as doctors in England and France?
Does it say that, maybe, we're all surrounded by a bunch of "progressive" swindlers? That, maybe, there's another major life-and-death Bernie Madoff-type NewAge scam going on? That, maybe, someone's been taking advantage of the public? (Hell, if these homeopaths will take advantage of people with tuberculosis, malaria, and diarrhea, then these same NewAge water salesmen certainly don't care about YOU, right?)
Come on,...I know I've got a foul mouth, and I ain't "spiritual", but who's really your buddy?
Have I ever lied to you?
Hat Tip: CounterKnowledge
Here in Ingerlund, we have a small number of real doctors who do homeopathy but the vast majority of UK homeopaths are non medically qualified.
ReplyDeleteIn France, yes, but if I remember correctly, spending on homeopathy is in decline.
I love that phrase - "real doctors who do homeopathy" - when the two ideas are 100% incompatible. Those "real doctors who do homeopathy" are quacks. My mother-in-law, and two others, were killed by just such a man (find the tags for Dr. Frank Shallenberger, Dr. Robert Wohlfahrt, and Tonic Magazine, for evidence - and click the links you find there.).
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing, though, Warhelmet. That's a nice hat you got there.