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British media attacks on homeopathy: Are they justified?

Homeopathy is being attacked by the British media. These attacks draw support from irresponsible and unjustified claims by certain teachers of homeopathy. Such claims include the use of ‘dream’ and ‘imaginative’ methods for provings. For prescribing some such teachers attempt to replace the laboriou...

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Autor principal: Vithoulkas, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2008
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6459480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.homp.2008.02.004
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spelling pubmed-64594802019-04-19 British media attacks on homeopathy: Are they justified? Vithoulkas, George Homeopathy Homeopathy is being attacked by the British media. These attacks draw support from irresponsible and unjustified claims by certain teachers of homeopathy. Such claims include the use of ‘dream’ and ‘imaginative’ methods for provings. For prescribing some such teachers attempt to replace the laborious process of matching symptom picture and remedy with spurious theories based on ‘signatures’, sensations and other methods. Other irresponsible claims have also been made. These “new ideas” risk destroying the principles, theory, and practice of homeopathy. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2008-04 2017-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6459480/ /pubmed/18439973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.homp.2008.02.004 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6459480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439973
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