Chief Medical Officer Rejects Pro-Homeopathy Studies Submitted by Health Secretary

Turns out that British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt buys into the utter bilge that is homeopathy. If you somehow happen to not know what homeopathic “medicines” are, the idea is quite simple: they’re magic. You take a substance – some chemical that is thought to have healing properties, say – and you dilute a tiny amount of it in water. Call it a drop per liter. Then you take a single drop of that mixture, and dilute it in yet more water. And again, and again, however many times you want. Simple math shows that you could well dilute the mix so much that not a single molecule of the original substance remains within the final water… but that’s ok, because due to the miracle of magical thinking, the water “remembers” the healing property of the substance, and your bucket of H2O can now cure whatever the hell you want it to. It’s magic!

One can be forgiven for wondering why the water molecules “remember” that aspirin cures headaches, but they somehow forget about all the raw sewage and heavy metals they’ve rubbed up against over the years.

Homeopaths should be kept as far from medical policy decision making as Flat Earthers from space program decision making, or Creationists from biology decision making. On these topics at least these cranks have a demonstrated inability to exercise valid judgement.

I am at best unclear just how much power a British “Health Secretary” has on actual government policy, but any at all – no matter how diluted – would be too much in this case.

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Americans… don’t get too smug. Obamacare seems to provide for taxpayer funding of utter newage as well.