Proofs that Homeopathic Medicine Works: Dossier “Scientific Evidence for Homeopathy”

As is known, every now and then homeopathy is subjected to various attacks embodied in biased scientific publications or disdainful articles widely publicized in the media and social networks. Dismissing the studies that provide grounds for homeopathy’s assumptions and therapeutics, they repeat ad nauseam variations in motifs: “There isn’t any proof that homeopathic medicine works” or “There isn’t scientific evidence for homeopathy.” In Brazil, homeopathy has been acknowledged as a medical specialty for several decades; it is available within the public health service, it is reimbursed by private insurance, and it is taught as elective in some medical schools including the most prestigious ones. However, the fact it has not yet been included as mandatory in the curriculum—and thus undergraduate students are not exposed to the peculiar principles of homeopathy and corresponding evidence—results in ignorance, doubts, and prejudice among doctors and the scientific community, which are conveyed to society at large. As English writer William Hazlitt wrote, “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”

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