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Homeopathy - the legal view
Lawyers have now joined the list of homeopathy's criticsProfessor Edzard Ernst
10.44 AM 18 April 2012
During recent months the critics of homeopathy have raised their voices repeatedly. Usually they come from doctors or scientists. Now the legal profession seems to join the chorus.
An Australian barrister and professor of law has published an analysis of “a series of criminal, civil, disciplinary and coronial decisions from difference countries in relation to homeopathic medicine where outcomes have been tragic” 1. He argues that “there is an urgent need for reflection and response within the health sector generally, consumer protection authorities, and legal policy-makers about the steps that should be taken to provide community protection from dangerous homeopathic practice” 1.
Crucially, this lawyer asks whether homeopathy can ever be registered alongside other healthcare professionals. Here is his answer in full:
"Until such time as homoeopathy can scientifically justify its fundamental tenets, which seems inconceivable by measures such as objective peer review, double blind testing and proper replication of processes and outcomes, it cannot be said that its claims for therapeutic efficacy can be justifiable. This leaves the profession not just exposed to criticisms, such as were enunciated in the cases referred to above, but potentially open to consumer protection actions directed toward whether its representations are false, misleading and deceptive, to civil litigation when its promises have not been fulfilled, and especially when persons have died, and to criminal actions in respect of the financial advantage that is obtained by its practitioners from their representations.
The distressing cases referred to here which led to avoidable deaths and the multiple accusations levelled against homoeopathy require of the profession at least a formal repudiation of the practitioners concerned and of those with a similar approach to health care. In addition, they demand an unequivocal response that homoeopathy will discipline its own in a robust and open way. If the profession is to acquire any scientific credibility, which is difficult to conceive of, the deaths to which homoeopathy has contributed, as described in this column, also require that homoeopathy actively generate a defensible research basis that justifies its claims to efficacy of outcome for its patients. It is only then that the claims of the medical establishment that homoeopathy is a dangerous and too often a lethal form of quackery will be able to be contested rationally. In the meantime, it is timely to consider further the status that homoeopathy has within the general and health care communities and whether that status can be scientifically, ethically or legally justified".[*/quote*]
Prof. Ian Freckeltons Artikel ist in voller Länge zu lesen bei
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Complementary health issues
Ian Freckelton SC*
DEATH BY HOMOEOPATHY: ISSUES FOR CIVIL, CRIMINAL AND CORONIAL LAW AND FOR HEALTH SERVICE POLICY
Homoeopathy has a significant clinical history, tracing its roots back to Hippocrates and more latterly to Dr Christian (Samuel) Hahnemann (1755-1843), a Saxon physician. In the last 30 years it has ridden a wave of resurgent interest and practice associated with disillusionment with orthodox medicine and the emergence of complementary therapies. However, recent years have seen a series of meta-analyses that have suggested that the therapeutic claims of homoeopathy lack scientific justification.
A 2010 report of the Science and Technology Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons recommended that it cease to be a beneficiary of NHS funding because of its lack of scientific credibility. In Australia the National Health and Medical Research Council is expected to publish a statement on the ethics of health practitioners’ use of homoeopathy in 2013. In India, England, New South Wales and Western Australia civil, criminal and coronial decisions have
reached deeply troubling conclusions about homoeopaths and the risk that they pose for counter-therapeutic outcomes, including the causing of deaths.
The legal decisions, in conjunction with the recent analyses of homoeopathy’s claims, are such as to raise confronting health care and legal issues relating to matters as diverse as consumer protection and criminal liability. They suggest that the profession is not suitable for formal registration and regulation lest such a status lend to it a legitimacy that it does not
warrant.[*quote*]
