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Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minIf the doctor tells you that he has diagnosed cancer, then this is an incisive event for everyone. What to do now? Conventional treatment, i.e. chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or hormone therapy, depending on the severity … Continue reading “Study uncovers: With alternative medicine many cancer patients die earlier than necessary!”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minHomeopathy is not the right answer to justified questions and wishes of patients Many patients are longing for an alternative to our often so time-limited, too often unemotional medical everyday life – and rightly so! … Continue reading “Why do we call homeopathy pseudo- and no longer alternative medicine?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minThe interpretation of evidence-based medicine (EBM) by the representatives of homeopathy:: a narrative that has been cultivated for years and has grown in intensity. It is probably due to the ongoing effort to gain reputation … Continue reading “Evidence Based Medicine – Defined by Homeopaths”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minThis article isn’t available in English.Continue readingVeterinary – New Domain for Homeopathy?
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minEnglish version will appear soonContinue readingOpen letter to the Bavarian Members of Parliament: Homeopathy is not an alternative to antibiotics!
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 3 minKurz erklärt https://www.netzwerk-homoeopathie.eu/kurz-erklaert/138-prof-ernst-informiert-so-schuetzen-sie-sich-vor-falschen-heilsversprechen-der-alternativmedizin Veröffentlicht: 09. Juli 2016 Beiträge, wie dieser hier, machen Spaß. Zumindest dem, der sie schreibt. Aber ich hoffe natürlich in erster Linie, dass meine Texte für diejenigen meiner Leser nützlich sind, die … Continue reading “Prof. Ernst informiert: So schützen Sie sich vor falschen Heilsversprechen der “Alternativmedizin””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 3 minIn the following, the situation of homeopathic physicians and alternative practicioners in Germany is described. In everyday language, the terms “homeopath” and “alternative practitioner” (here meant: the German “Heilpraktiker”) are often confused. First of all, … Continue reading “FAQ 18 – “Homeopath” and “Alternative Practitioner” – what’s the difference?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minA clear message from the French medical profession On Thursday 12 April 2018, French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn made a brief statement on French television on the question of the reimbursement of homeopathy costs by … Continue reading “France: Doctors’ collective #FakeMed – a crystal-clear statement on pseudomedicine”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 5 minEnglish version will appear soon.Continue readingAlternative practitioners on pharmacy-only obligation and labelling of homeopathic remedies – a statement of the INH
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minUnder the flag “Homeopathy for refugees in Germany” the “Homeopaths Without Borders” together with the initiative “Homeopathy in Action” advertise a nationwide network of homeopathy offers for the “treatment of refugees”. Again and again, related … Continue reading “Homeopathy as “refugee aid” – a medical and ethical problem!”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 15 minThe good conversation between patient and doctor is an essential part of the anamnesis, diagnostics and above all the therapy. Mutual trust between patient and doctor is of decisive importance. Often one hears of a … Continue reading “Conversation in medicine”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 8 min “For me, medicine covers not only science, but also art of healing. Only both together emerge good medicine. Unfortunately, conventional doctors often lack the art. And alternative medicine often lacks science. Both of these are … Continue reading “Scientific medicine and homeopathy – why they can’t work together”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minFor English version see the original article by Yannick Borkens in Frontiers in Sociology 6:, 667772 v. 17.01.2022 (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.667772/full).Continue readingHomeopathic Conversion Therapy – the “Bund Katholischer Ärzte”
Literatur über Homöopathie gibt es unglaublich viel. Kritische Bücher und Blogs sind eher selten. Viele davon stammen von MitgliederInnen unseres Netzwerks, die sich fundiert mit den Irrtümern der Homöopathie im Besonderen und der Pseudomedizin im Allgemeinen befassen. Wir empfehlen Ihnen: Bücher unserer Mitglieder / Unterstützer Aust, Norbert: In Sachen Homöopathie – eine Beweisaufnahme, Eigenverlag, 2013 …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 11 minStandpunkte https://www.netzwerk-homoeopathie.eu/standpunkte/287-von-der-praktizierenden-homoeopathin-zur-wissenschaftsaktivistin-artikel-ueber-natalie-grams-bei-den-franzoesischen-skeptikern-afis Veröffentlicht: 08. Juni 2018 Die Zeitschrift “Science & Pseudo-Sciences” der französischen Skeptiker-Organisation Association française pour l’information scientifique (AFIS) hat in ihrer Ausgabe April-Juni 2018 einen umfangreichen Artikel zu Dr. Natalie Grams und der … Continue reading ““Von der praktizierenden Homöopathin zur Wissenschaftsaktivistin” – Artikel über Natalie Grams bei den französischen Skeptikern (AFIS)”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minMore than a year ago, the discussion about homeopathy in health care in France began, triggered by the merger of 124 doctors (the #NoFakeMed initiative), who made a clear statement to the public. The waves … Continue reading “France: Academies of science position themselves against homeopathy”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 16 min“Scientists claim that homeopathy is not possible” … states the Homeopathy Research Institute as allegedly supposed dictum of critics on homeopathy. The third part of our series about homeopathic criticism on criticism of homeopathy deals … Continue reading “Criticism on criticism on homeopathy #3 – “Homeopathy is impossible””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 11 minTher Geman version of this article is the translation of die entitled memorandum of the Russion Academy of Sciences. The Abstract of the memorandum is in English available here.Continue reading”Homeopathy is Pseudoscience” – Memorandum of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 minHeute, am 30. Januar 2025, jährt sich die Gründung des INH zum 9. Mal. Kein besonderes Jubiläum, auch kein „rundes“, aber doch Gelegenheit und Anlass für ein paar Gedanken. Bereits in unserem Jahresrückblick auf 2024 … Continue reading “9. Geburtstag des INH – und ein kleiner Rant”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 10 minLiebe Leserinnen und Leser, wie sagen wir so oft, nach sieben Jahren Aufklärung zur Homöopathie: Es gibt noch viel zu tun. Heute möchten wir das einmal exemplarisch belegen. Zum “Münsteraner Memorandum Homöopathie in der Apotheke”, das … Continue reading “Memorandum Homöopathie in der Apotheke – ein Echo”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minDie Apotheke ist der Ort, an dem die PatientInnen “direkt” mit den Arzneimitteln in Kontakt kommen und sich auf die Fachkenntnis und Kompetenz des dort tätigen Personals verlassen. Dies bedingt fraglos eine besondere Verantwortung gegenüber … Continue reading “Homöopathie in der Apotheke – ein Münsteraner Memorandum”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minA guest contribution by Dr. Carolin Sage The “classic” among the attempts to declare a mechanism of action of homeopathic remedies. Also, occasionally popular elsewhere, e.g. with Edward Bach’s flower essences, where it is supposed … Continue reading “The “water memory” from a chemical perspective”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 3 minWir erinnern uns an den Beschluss des Bayerischen Landtages vom November 2019, die Staatsregierung möge eine Studie in Auftrag geben, um „zu untersuchen bzw. untersuchen zu lassen, wie ein reduzierter Antibiotikaeinsatz im medizinischen Bereich realisiert … Continue reading “Homöopathiestudie in Bayern: ein Zwischenbericht”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minThe term “allopathy” often appears in discussions about homeopathy / pseudo-medicine, frequently to distinguish the supposedly gentle and natural pseudo-method from “evil orthodox medicine” (in the meaning of the German term “Schulmedizin”). Whereas “Schulmedizin” itself … Continue reading ““Allopathy” – what does it mean?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minSamuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy, would have turned 266 today. A retrospective by Dr. Natalie Grams When I first heard a sentence from Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, I was a young medical … Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Samuel Hahnemann!”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 12 minWo ist das Problem? Wir berichteten bereits über eine Veröffentlichung zur Tierhomöopathie im “Schweizer Archiv Tiermedizin”, die schon bei erster kritischer Durchsicht eine Vielzahl von Unzulänglichkeiten aufwies. Das INH hatte sich hierzu an die Redaktion … Continue reading “Das Deutsche Tierärzteblatt und die Homöopathie”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 15 minProf. Lars Bräuer, together with the doctor and medical journalist Falk Stirkat, has just published the book “Der belogene Patient – Warum Impfkritiker, Wunderheiler und andere Scharlatane gefährlicher sind als jedes Virus” (The lied patient … Continue reading “In the patient’s interest – An interview with Prof. Dr Lars Bräuer”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minOn 7 November 2019, the Bavarian parliament (Landtag) decided to award a research contract for homeopathy as an alternative to antibiotics. Initially, 400,000 euros were earmarked for this, later increased to 800,000 euros. To the … Continue reading “Study Contract on Homeopathy and Antibiotics – The Slant”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 14 minThe Twitter user “Skeptic Saturnist” published a trenchant thread some time ago about his medical self-image and his relationship to pseudo-medicine / homeopathy. He kindly followed our suggestion to make this a guest article for … Continue reading “I’m a Doctor – And I stand by it! – A guest article by “Skeptic Saturnist””
I support the INH and its spokesperson team as a scientific advisor. I am an oncologist and palliative physician and have been working for over 30 years with and for patients who have a serious illness. Since 2017 I have held an endowed professorship for Integrative Oncology of the German Cancer Aid Foundation at the …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minEnglish version will appear soon.Continue reading”Scientific opinion” on homeopathy application to Bündnis90/Die Grünen – Reply to replica
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 12 minAn essential “link” between the representatives of homeopathy and politics is the evocation of an alleged “popularity” of the sugar-ball therapy. The Information Network Homeopathy has often enough explained that and why this is not … Continue reading ““How would you feel about homeopathy – if you were really be informed?” – The “argument of …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 22 minBe aware: also with SARS-CoV19 (the so-called Corona virus) any attempt of homeopathic prevention or even treatment is ineffective and dangerous! The search term “homeopathic vaccines” finds more than 500,000 hits on Google. With “nosodes” … Continue reading ““Homeopathic Vaccines” and “Nosodes””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 minProf. Tina Salomon’s detailed article on the “homeopathic 20-million peanuts”, which we recently published under the heading “Points of View”, met with great interest – and the desire to provide a “short version” of it. … Continue reading ““So okay” – no way, Minister Spahn! – A “Too long – Didn’t read” for those in …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 24 minHealth economics is an established science. It provides the basis for how modern health care systems function in themselves and in economic environments. It defines a framework for decisions on sustainable health policy under the … Continue reading ““So okay”, Minister Spahn? – No way! – A guest article by health economist Prof. Dr. Tina …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 8 minFederal Health Minister Jens Spahn declared yesterday, 17.09.2019, that he would adhere further to the reimbursability of homeopathy by the statutory health insurance funds. He cited the comparatively marginal costs compared to the total expenditure … Continue reading “Open letter to Health Minister Spahn on the continuation of the reimbursement of homeopathy in the SHI”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minMrs. Karin Maag, member of the Health Committee of the German Bundestag, has recently spoken out on several occasions against the reimbursement of homeopathy by the statutory health insurance funds. She did use a number … Continue reading “Open letter to Karin Maag, Member of the Bundestag – Reimbursement of Homeopathy”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minThis week, French Health Minister Agnès Buzyn announced the French government’s decision to remove homeopathy completely from the statutory health insurance scheme by 2021. For a transitional year, the reimbursement rate for homeopathic medicines is … Continue reading “Decision on Homeopathy in France – and Germany? – An Interim Conclusion”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 32 minIntroduction Again and again we hear of India as the “promised land” of homeopathy. Again and again the critics are reproached of India as a shining example when it comes to constructing a “proof” of … Continue reading “Does homeopathy work? – A guest contribution by Abhijit Chanda (berationable.com)”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 5 minYesterday, on 13.06.2019, German TV satirist Jan Böhmermann so satirically as accurately analysed homeopathy in his programme “Neo Magazin Royale” and thus articulated in his special way the – in our opinion – widespreaded displeasure … Continue reading “Open letter of the INH to the German Federal Minister of Health on the “internal consensus” of …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 3 minKurz erklärt https://www.netzwerk-homoeopathie.eu/kurz-erklaert/146-homoeopathie-zahlen-daten-fakten Veröffentlicht: 04. August 2016 Wie viele Deutsche glauben an Homöopathie? 60 Prozent der Deutschen haben schon Globuli geschluckt, sagt eine Allensbach-Studie aus dem Jahr 2014, Tendenz steigend. Dabei sind Frauen deutlich homöopathieaffiner … Continue reading “Homöopathie – Zahlen, Daten, Fakten”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minOn 13 December 2018, the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament published a press release entitled “Naturopathy should be more firmly anchored at Bavarian universities”. This corresponded both with a similar parliamentary motion … Continue reading “Open Letter by the GWUP Science Board and the INH to Melanie Huml, Secretary of State for …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minThe discussion about alternative medical methods in the health system, especially homeopathy, has quickly and apparently sustaining gained momentum in France. We reported on the request of the National Council of the Medical Chamber of … Continue reading “France: In the fast lane in the case of homeopathy”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 19 min“There is no scientific evidence that homeopathy works.” It is evident that homeopathy associations are dealing with critical arguments more intensively than before, e.g. with the work of the Information Network on Homeopathy (INH), a Germany-based … Continue reading “Criticism on criticism on Homeopathy #1: “There is no evidence””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 20 minThe second part of our series about the “homeopathic criticism on criticism on homeopathy” covers why critics conclude that there is no reliable evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy beyond placebo. „There is not a … Continue reading “Criticism on criticism on Homeopathy #2: “Missing positive trials””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minWe have reported on the verdict of the Advisory Committee of the Scientific Academies of the European Community on Homeopathy and reactions to it. As expected, the German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians has also … Continue reading “German Homeopathic Doctors on EASAC Statement: An Answer from the INH”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 15 minMalpractice or systemic risk? In Italy, a child died recently because his parents and the doctor who treated him only relied on homeopathy. The German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians sees here a “medical malpractice”, … Continue reading “Dead child in Italy: Homeopathic doctors association sees “individual medical malpractice””
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 minOn this page you will find various information about the placebo effect, which explain that it is effective with any kind of attention – and therefore, of course, even more so with medical interventions. Furthermore, … Continue reading “Nocebo – what’s that again?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 minEnglish version will appear soon.Continue readingOpen letter of the information network homeopathy to the statutory health insurance “Die Techniker” (TK)
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 10 min… …and are homeopathy critics willing servants of the pharmaceutical industry? Mention this! Both are ineradicable narratives that we encounter daily. Behind this idea are assumptions that have simply nothing to do with reality. And … Continue reading “Is mighty “BigPharma” suppressing Homeopathy…?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 min“Old knowledge is just – old.” When it comes to alternative, complementary and holistic healing methods or even herbs, people like to argue with “old knowledge”. But what does that mean? Out of a conglomeration … Continue reading “Objection: Homeopathy is Ancient Wisdom!”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 10 minA bad day for homeopathy: On November 15, 2016, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its statement that in future, over-the-counter homeopathic remedies will have to be labelled as the product’s efficacy is not … Continue reading “On the developments in the USA and the demands of the FTC”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 min„Es wäre gut, wenn in der Medizin gar keine Lücke entstünde, in der sich die Patienten auf die Suche nach “Alternativen” machen müssen.“ – Dr. Natalie Grams Aus aktuellem Anlass Aktuell tobt ein Streit um … Continue reading “Rechte und Pflichten von Heilpraktikern – ein Debattenbeitrag aus Sicht des INH”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minAre Schuessler Salts Homeopathy? The so-called “Schuessler salts” are often equated or confused with homeopathy. However, they do not go back to Hahnemann, but to the Oldenburg physician Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (1821 to 1898). Biographical … Continue reading “What about Schuessler Salts?”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minAnimal homeopathy is widespread and highly praised. At Google the term achieves nearly 65.000 hits (retrieved 13.04.2021). But it is a building that was first constructed by Hahnemann’s successors. There is only a short text … Continue reading “Objection: But animal homeopathy still works!”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minEnglish version will appear soon.Continue readingHomoeopathy in Switzerland – the background to its reimbursement by the health insurance funds
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 4 minEs dürfte wohl wenige Familien geben, deren Leben in der Öffentlichkeit besser dokumentiert ist als das der Windsors. Wobei wir die Familien Kennedy und Grimaldi einmal außen vor lassen. Dies natürlich vor allem durch die … Continue reading “Prinz Charles und die Homöopathie (United Kingdom)”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 minDer nachstehende Beitrag erhellt exemplarisch, was sich so manches Mal hinter Veröffentlichungen der homöopathischen Szene verbirgt. Auf seiner Facebook-Seite hatte der DZVhÄ (Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte) am 14. April 2016 um 13.37 Uhr einen Artikel … Continue reading “Was hinter einer “positiven Studie” von Homöopathen steckt – ein Beispiel”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 6 minYou can find the original article by Dr. Steven Novella under: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-it-worked-for-me-gambit/Continue readingThe “But homeopathy did help me!” fallacy
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 15 minSamuel Hahnemann was born on 10 April 1755 Placebo and nocebo effects are not only found in medicine. These effects accompany us in daily life always and everywhere and are not bad in themselves. The … Continue reading “The Placebo Business”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 7 min“We all don’t process information as carefully and reflectively as we think we do.” Fast thinking versus slow thinking People use two different ways of thinking. Normally we judge intuitively, without reflection and according to … Continue reading “Why people like to believe in homeopathy”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 8 minBan homeopathy? No, we do not want that and accordingly we are not striving for that. However, we have good reasons why we do not consider it useful or helpful in medicine. Of course, everyone … Continue reading “FAQ 19 – Do you want to “ban” homeopathy?”
In accordance to the Marburg Declaration *), we wrote the Freiburg Declaration on Homeopathy at our INH foundation meeting. We declare: Homeopathy is neither naturopathy nor medicine Despite the political support and the silence of those who should know better, homeopathy is and remains a procedure that clearly contradicts sound scientific foundations. The members and …
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 9 minThis true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one … Continue reading “Homeopathy is Esotericism”
Lesedauer / Reading Time: 5 minIf explained as a placebo treatment to the patient and applied by an experienced doctor in mutual informed consent: a few objections. Applied outside medicine: even less. But as the highly specific, natural drug therapy … Continue reading “FAQ 02 – And what do you have against homeopathy?”