A Godsend or a Hoax?

There are few forms of medicine as controversial as homeopathy. If you were new to homeopathy and you searched, as we all do, for online sources such as Wikipedia (whose founder has always thought homeopathy was ineffective, unscientific, and has made no effort whatsoever to be unbiased), you might reject it out of hand as implausible and impossible. Check it out further, and you will find that there are over 200,000 registered homeopathic physicians in India, for example, and 12,000 more being added each year—and that homeopathy is the treatment of choice, before conventional medicine, for many individuals and parents worldwide. If you were to dig beyond the “Where is homeopathy banned” sensationalism and investigated further, you would find homeopathy was popular and widespread throughout Western Europe until the past few years, when it received a tremendous backlash in the UK and Spain and that it was extremely popular and widespread in the US until 1910 when the Flexner Report, funded by the Carnegie Foundation, led nearly to its demise in the US until the 1970s, when it was revived. You would also find a number of articles in the medical literature legitimizing homeopathy. And, if you would like to better understand the controversy and ubiquitous bias, watch Just One Drop: The Story Behind the Homeopathy Controversy (https://justonedropfilm.com/). I will not spend my time in this article trying to defend homeopathy scientifically because, as you may know already, or will learn in the film, the deck is stacked against us. Many minds are made up, regardless of the facts.