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Continue reading "Why is there no prophylaxis (prevention) in homeopathy?"
Continue reading "Review zu ADHS und Homöopathie (Gärtner et al. 2022)- Update und Fazit"
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Gerade erst konnten wir vermelden, dass die Landesärztekammer Thüringen als vierzehnte von 17 LÄK nun auch die Homöopathie aus ihrer Landesweiterbildungsordnung verbannt hat. Ein weiterer Erfolg für die wissenschaftsbasierte Homöopathiekritik. Dass ein Ende der Homöopathie …
Continue reading "“Globuli, Wissenschaft, Patientenwunsch” – ? Eine Veranstaltungsankündigung"
Very often defenders of homeopathy address us with a statement like this. "No orthodox doctor could help me, but the homeopathic doctor/healer cured me practically immediately with only little few globules." The unspoken - occasionally …
Continue reading "FAQ 21 – But homeopathy worked for me, “conventional medicine” didn’t!"
Liebe 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"
Die 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 …
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A 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"
Wir 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"
Press release – Update Independent Scientific Agency: Celebrated homeopathy study based on data manipulation and falsification Update, 03.11.2022 The publishing journal, The Oncologist, has today published an expression of concern on the study in question, …
A few days ago, a thread by Canadian health scientist and sceptic Timothy Caulfield made waves on Twitter. Caulfield was referring to a systematic review of ADHD treatment with individual homeopathy, specifically that a journal …
Continue reading "ADHD and homeopathy – a new review. What’s in it?"
Continue reading "Is an “initial aggravation” proof of the effect of homeopathy?"
The 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 …
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Samuel 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 …
For 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"
Six years of INH educational work, discussions and advertising for an appropriate role for homeopathy - not as medicine and outside the health system. We have achieved a lot, raised general awareness about the real …
Continue reading "Time for action! INH Open Letter on Homeopathy in the Health Sector"
Gut gemeint ist nicht gut gemacht Rezension des Films "Homöopathie unwiderlegt?" von Erik Lemke "Lass doch die Homöopathen einfach mal reden. Wenn sie ihre Lehre selbst vorstellen und beschreiben, dann merkt doch jeder, was das …
Continue reading "“Homöopathie unwiderlegt?” – eine Filmrezension"
Uns ist leider erst recht spät bekannt geworden, dass eine Abstimmung über Erhalt oder Abschaffung der "tierärztlichen Zusatzbezeichnung Homöopathie" bei der Bayerischen Landestierärzteschaft ansteht. Wir schätzen hier die Chancen nicht so groß ein wie bei …
Continue reading "Tierärztliche Zusatzbezeichnung Homöopathie – ein Offener Brief"
Die Entscheidung Im Februar hatten wir zusammen mit der GWUP einen Wettbewerb für Studierende ausgelobt. Zielsetzung dabei war, das Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung der kritischen Beurteilung von klinischen Studien, der Evidenzquelle Nr. 1, zu stärken. …
Continue reading "Der Studierendenwettbewerb von INH und GWUP: Entscheidung und Preisverleihung"
Der Beitrag "Forschung auf Homöopathisch" (zeitgleich erschienen), der ausführlich die aktuelle Entwicklung zu der umfangreich kritisierten Studie zu "Verbesserungen beim Überleben von Lungenkrebspatienten mit homöopathischer Komplementärbehandlung" (Frass et al. 2020) darlegt, bekommt mit diesem Beitrag …
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An Update on: Improvements in survival of lung cancer patients with homeopathic complementary treatment (Frass et al. 2020)? – A study critique You can find the English version of this publication on Prof. Edzard …
In fact: Homeopathy is mentioned in the new German S3 guideline on complementary medicine in the treatment of cancer. Understandable: In these gloomy times for homeopathy, homeopaths are rejoicing as if they had won the …
Continue reading "Homeopathy in the S3 Guideline on Complementary Medicine in Oncology – a Success?"
You can find the English version of this publication on Prof. Edzard Ernst's website via this link: https://edzardernst.com/2021/06/a-thorough-analysis-of-prof-m-frass-recent-homeopathy-trial-casts-serious-doubts-on-its-reliability/ A first update (09.08.2021) on this article you can find here: https://edzardernst.com/2021/08/an-update-on-the-dubious-cancer-study-by-frass-et-al/
Wo 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"
+ Wir erinnern uns: Im Juni 2019 hatte uns Mathias Hevert, der Geschäftsführer der Fa. Hevert Arzneimittel, in einem Interview mit Pharma Relations , „den Skeptikern“ vorgehalten, sie würden eine „klar voreingenommene Haltung gegenüber …
Continue reading "Guten Tag! Wir möchten immer noch mit Ihnen über Homöopathie reden!"
Prof. 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"
Oft liest oder hört man in den Medien: „Eine neue Studie zum Thema X hat gezeigt…“, oder es heißt von interessierter Seite: „Es gibt positive Studien zur Therapie X“. Für die Öffentlichkeit sind solche Aussagen …
Continue reading "Das homöopathiekritische Projekt 2021: Studierendenwettbewerb von INH und GWUP"
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Viele (alle?) Krankenkassen verschicken derzeit Erhöhungsmitteilungen zu den Beiträgen im Jahre 2021. Die Mehrkosten infolge der Corona-Krise werden vielfach als (Teil-)Begründung angegeben, fraglos ist das zutreffend und soll hier auch nicht Gegenstand der Kritik sein. …
Continue reading "Corona, Krankenkassen und Homöopathie – Nichts ist immer noch zu teuer!"
„Was sagen Sie zu der Studie von der Securvita? Da steht doch jetzt wirklich schwarz auf weiß, dass ....“ Diese in letzter Zeit häufiger an uns herangetragene Frage nimmt Bezug auf eine Studie, über die …
Continue reading "Neue Securvita-Studie in Sachen Homöopathie – spektakulär oder business as usual?"
On 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"
The 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”"
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In Österreich gibt es die "Ärztegesellschaft für klassische Homöopathie" (ÄKH), was allgemein bekannt und nicht über das Übliche hinaus bemerkenswert ist. Die ÄKH führt Fortbildungsveranstaltungen durch, derzeit in Form von Webinaren, auch dies ist noch …
Continue reading "Die Homöopathen und die Skeptiker – eine alte neue Story"
Without an active ingredient nothing works. This is an essential principle of our criticism of homeopathy. In this doctrine, it is assumed that the stronger the effect of a remedy, the more the original substance …
Continue reading "Applies in the whole universe: Nothing causes nothing!"
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Continue readingHomeopathy, Phytotherapy and Homeopathic Complex Remedies
The decidedly homeopathy-friendly programme "Die Wahrheit über Homöopathie" (The Truth ... about Homeopathy) by the German television channel rbb, first broadcast on 25 June and repeated by channel tagesschau 24 on 20 August, we have …
Fortunately, the German medical profession meanwhile moves forward in the case of homeopathy. This is to be seen at the nine federal physician chambers which adopted new training guidelines without homeopathy within the last twelve …
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Continue readingA Journey to the Past in German TV - and a Critical Answer
At the portal "Homöopathie online" of the German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians a longer article in the form of an interview with a homeopathic physician has been published. It is about the alleged treatment …
Homeopathy - a method from the transition from 18th to 19th century Homeopathy is a therapeutic concept developed by the German doctor Samuel Hahnemann at the time of the French Revolution. It is therefore inevitable …
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An 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 …
Be 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" …
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Continue readingThe Spanish online newspaper eldiario.es about homeopathy criticism in Germany
Prof. 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. …
Health 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 …
The Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians (DZVhÄ) has recently published an article on its website under the heading "Encouraging Evidence on Homeopathy" (in German) and also sent out several press releases. The largest (but by …
Continue reading "The “Suppressed First Report” of the NHMRC – Source of “Encouraging Evidence”?"
Federal 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 …
In the meantime, the Spanish government has initiated a wide outreach against pseudomedicine. For example, it no longer wants to accept the medicinal status of homeopathy, wants to ban homeopathy from pharmacies and has already …
Continue reading "The INH to MEPs on homeopathy in the EU Medicines Directive"
Mrs. 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"
This 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"
The German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians (DZVhÄ) presents its members to the public as guarantors of good medical care. Among other things, this is necessary to counter the criticism that the use of homeopathy …
Continue reading "Medical homeopathy and patient safety – touchstone homeopathy congress"
In an interview with Pharma Relations, Mathias Hevert, Managing Director of Hevert Arzneimittel, accused the "skeptics" of taking a "clearly biased stance towards homeopathy", also of neither wanting to inform nor being willing to discuss. …
Continue reading "Hello! We’re from INH and want to talk about homeopathy with you!"
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Continue readingSpanish doctors withdraw credit from homeopathy
The INH is pleased to note that the critical debate on homeopathy is gaining in breadth. But meanwhile, criticism of homeopathy is increasingly expressed in a way that we cannot approve of, because it exceeds …
Continue reading "The INH on its own account – Notes to the public discourse"
Introduction 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)"
Yesterday, 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 …
On several occasions we have reported on the progress of the critical debate on the role of homeopathy in the French health system. In almost breathtaking speed, a protest article of the group #NoFakeMed in …
Continue reading "France: Negative opinion on homeopathy submitted by the Supreme Health Authority"
The Brussels Times reports under this title on 15 May 2019 and quotes Simon November, spokesman for the consumer protection organisation "Test Achats": “The requirements of effectiveness, safety and quality to bring a product to …
This year's Homeopathic Medical Congress of the Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians will take place in Stralsund from 29 May to 1 June 2019. As usual with such meetings, the DZVhÄ assured itself also this …
Standpunkte 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 …
Standpunkte https://www.netzwerk-homoeopathie.eu/standpunkte/293-faktencheckcheck Veröffentlicht: 03. Oktober 2018 Auf der Seite "Natur und Medizin" der Carstens-Stiftung erschien unlängst eine - sagen wir mal - Auseinandersetzung mit dem Beitrag im SPIEGEL 34/2018 vom 18.08.2018 ("Hokuspokus - Geld weg! Heiler, …
Kurz 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 …
Kurz 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 "What does the German “internal consensus” mean?"
No. What we accuse homeopathy of is not primarily administering placebos, but its faithful adherence to scientifically untenable ideas. The fact that homeopathy has been able to survive in our country at all is due …
Continue reading "FAQ 20 – Would you want to receive homeopathic treatment?"
In 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?"
More generally, the errors of medicine do not automatically make homeopathy an effective procedure It is undisputed that errors and grievances in medicine cause more damage than there are reported errors in pseudomedicine, and we …
Continue reading "FAQ 17 – But failures also happen in medicine!"
"Homoeopathy works with energy or information transfer and effects via electromagnetic oscillations." This sounds plausible right away, but without more concrete information there is plenty of scope for one's own interpretation. Let's take a closer …
Continue reading "FAQ 16 – Homeopathy works with subtle vibration / energy / information!"
... and how is that supposed to help us with homeopathy? Well, first of all, that sentence is wrong anyway. People who thought about it were already aware in ancient times that the earth is …
Continue reading "FAQ 15 – In the past, it was believed that the earth was a disk …"
More 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"
An association of persons and organisations of the accordingly interested scene has published a "Declaration Homoeopathy 2019" inter alia on the website of the Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians [1], in which it is claimed …
Continue reading "Homeopathy Declaration 2019 – The INH takes a Stand"
"Miracle cure for cancer! Miracle cure for cancer! Folks, buy my miracle cure for cancer! Just invented, mechanism of action unclear, efficacy not proven ..." Fortunately, such a thing must not happen again in today's …
Continue reading "FAQ 14 – Why have homeopaths to prove that homeopathy works?"
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, 1st act, 5th scene, William Shakespeare, around 1602 This quote by Shakespeare is often used in discussions about …
Continue reading "FAQ 13 – But there is more than (natural) science!"
Many people have internalised a basic distrust of "scientific studies". They consider that study results are worthless because they depend solely on the interests of the person who conducted and/or funded the study. However, very …
Continue reading "FAQ 12 – Oh, you can’t trust studies anyway!"
"It takes more than a swallow to make a summer" There are numerous positive studies on homeopathy! This argument is regularly put forward by advocates of homeopathy. The conclusion is then drawn that the effectiveness …
Continue reading "FAQ 11 – But there are studies that show that homeopathy works!"
Many people understand that homeopathy is only based on placebo effects. But they ask the question: "What does it matter? As long as the patient is better, it's all the same." But is it honest? …
Continue reading "FAQ 10 – And if it’s just a placebo, what does it matter?"
Many people think: placebos ("sham drugs") would be only effective in patients who imagine illnesses - and therefore also improvements - and in unstable people who can be easily influenced. But that is not true. …
Continue reading "FAQ 09 – Placebo effect means conceit, doesn’t it?"
Continue reading "FAQ 07 – He who heals is right! And that means – ?"
There is hardly a discussion about homeopathy without someone taking the point: "But homeopathy has helped me! You can tell me for a long time why it can't work, I know that it did it …
Pseudoscience with Academics A guest contribution by Dr. phil. Susanne Dietz There are existing, unfortunately, the Jakeszs, Hubers, Broers, Burkarts, Dahlkes, etc. of this world, who spread esoterically and spiritually veiled beliefs (in addition to …
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Continue reading "Homeopathic preparations also don’t act through nanoparticles"
What happens after ingesting a homeopathic remedy - according to the homeopathic build of thought? Occasionally one is confronted with the argument that the effect of homeopathic remedies cannot be based on a placebo effect …
Continue reading "Homeopathy not a “placebo” because often the first given remedy does not work?"
Continue reading "Homeopathy isn’t a “stimulus-regulation therapy”"
We had reported that on 22 June this year, the Madrid Medical Association, de facto the supreme medical association of Spain, issued a very clear declaration against the use of homeopathy in medical practice and …
Continue reading "Spain – Homeopathy criticism now also government official"
Continue reading "Infinite Stories – once again to the Australian NHMRC’s 2015 review on homeopathy"
Scientific Reports, quite a medical journal of good reputation, published on 10.09.2018 a paper entitled "Ultra-diluted Toxicodendron pubescens attenuates pro-inflammatory cytokines and ROS- mediated neuropathic pain [1] in rats". The paper concludes that homeopathic high potencies …
Continue reading "Homeopathic study: The legend of the five times eight rats"
This text describes the legal situation under which health insurance companies in Germany are legally allowed to reimburse costs for homeopathy. Due to the very specific German factual and legal situation, we refrain from a …
Continue reading "Glasses, dentures and homeopathy – The role of German statutory health insurances"
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The 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"