Scientists urge WHO to discredit homeopathy
In an open letter to the World Health Organisation a group of British scientists have asked for homeopathy to be publicly discredited as a treatment for serious diseases. The scientists fear vulnerable patients are dying from diseases such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis because they are using homeopathic drugs instead of scientifically-tested medicines.
They want WHO to condemn the practice. Daniella Muallem, a biophysicist at University College London, said homeopathy is cheap, but there is no evidence that it works for these diseases, and the way they are being sold by practitioners is dangerous and completely unethical. She added that medicines that work should be promoted instead. WHO estimates two million died of AIDS in 2007, including 270,000 children.
source: Panos London
