NHS Should Cease Funding Homeopathic Medicine - Cross-Party Group

On 2nd Feb 2010 I asked Is Homeopathy Good For The British Economy?

In a reductio ad absurdum I concluded that if homeopathy works, and is cheaper than other therapies, then the UK could save billions by switching its NHS to the use of only homeopathy.

The House of Commons cross-party science watchdog commitee has just released its findings:

there is no evidence that homeopathic
remedies work beyond the placebo affect.

The NHS should cease funding all homeopathic medicine, the House of Commons
science watchdog said today.

The cross-party group concluded that there was no evidence that homeopathic
remedies work beyond the placebo affect.

The NHS spends in the order of £4 million a year on homeopathy, paying for
prescriptions and supporting the running of four homeopathic hospitals.

The chairman of the committee, Phil Willis, MP, said that government policies
in relation to homeopathy were not based on sound evidence.

“It sets an unfortunate precedent for the Department of Health to consider
that the existence of a community which believes that homeopathy works is
'evidence' enough to continue spending public money on it.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7036441.ece