March 2009 - Letter to Private Eye
Dear Sir,
In response to ‘Ratbiter’s’ piece Which Doctors? (Private Eye 1231), The Society of Homeopaths, which represents 60 per cent of registered homeopaths in the UK, would like to correct some important inaccuracies. More ...
September 2008 - Letter to the Guardian, Re Ernst Comments
Dear Sir
As the UK's largest organisation registering professional homeopaths, The Society of Homeopaths takes a clear position on vaccination. More ...
June 2008 - Letter to the Editor, The Daily Telegraph
Re: ‘Complementary Medicine: Seeking out alternatives’
Sir
As the UK’s largest regulator of homeopaths, The Society of Homeopaths would like to reassure your readers that, contrary to Professor Ernst’s inaccurate assertion, there is in fact a ‘regulator for treating humans’. More ...
April 2008 - Society respond to The New Statesman article
Treat with Extreme Caution' article 21 April 2008
Dear Sir,
As the UK’s largest professional association and regulator of homeopaths, The Society of Homeopaths was interested to read Simon Singh’s latest inaccurate diatribe about homeopathy (New Statesman, 17 April 2008). More ...
February 2008 - Letter to The Editor, You And Yours.
BBC Radio 4 - You And Yours
Sir,
As the UK’s largest regulator of homeopaths, The Society of Homeopaths was concerned to hear Foundation for Integrated Health Chief Executive, Kim Lavely, announce on ‘You And Yours’ that the not-yet-launched Complementary & Natural Health Council (CNHC) intends to regulate homeopaths, wrongly stating ‘We have been working with the representatives of the homeopathic profession and they are very enthusiastic about the idea’. More ...
January 2008 - Letter to the Editor, The Guardian
Re: Quackery and superstition - available soon on the NHS
In her article condemning the Foundation for Integrated Health’s creation of the Natural Healthcare Council (8th January), Polly Toynbee is clearly confused. More ...
November 2007 - Letter to the Editor of The Lancet
Dear Sir
We read your Special Report on homeopathy in Britain (Vol 370) with interest. For a publication that bills itself as the world's leading medical journal, we were surprised that Udani Samarasekera’s report merely rehashes time-worn arguments, without presenting any new information to your readers. More ...
October 2007 - sent to the Editor, The Observer
In response to Nick Cohen’s opinion piece ‘the cranks who swear by citronella oil’ (Observer, October 28), The Society of Homeopaths, Europe’s largest body of professional homeopaths, would like to point out that its symposium on HIV/AIDS is just that, a discussion forum for the exploration and critical appraisal of the use of homeopathy. More ...
October 2007 - Letter sent to The Guardian
Re: Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science column “Threats in the homeopathic panacea”
We refer to Mr Goldacre’s column entitled "Threats ñ the homeopathic panacea" in Saturday's Guardian (20th October 2007). More ...
August 2007 - Society's Response to Dawkin’s Article
Allergy Patients Turn to Homeopathy
Members of the Society of Homeopaths are seeing an increasing number of patients suffering from a range of allergic conditions, from skin problems such as eczema through to life-threatening food allergies. More ...
May 2007 - Response to Letter Calling for Homeopathy Boycott
Another Pointless attack on NHS Homeopathy - Times Online, The Guardian and BBC Radio 4
In periodically challenging the provision of homeopathy on the NHS, Professor Born conveniently ignores the fact that substantial savings could be made by introducing homeopathy into general practice. More ...
May 2007 - RESPONSE TO DAILY MAIL ARTICLE
Re: Homeopathy is worse than witchcraft
As the UK’s largest body of professional homeopaths, we have grave concerns about the extreme and unsubstantiated lengths Professor Baum is prepared to go to in his attempt to discredit homeopathy. More ...
March 2007 - Response to Nature Magazine
SCIENCE DEGREES WITHOUT THE SCIENCE
The Society of Homeopaths, the UK’s largest register of professional homeopaths, supports the conferment of science degrees on graduates of homeopathy courses, strongly refuting the assertion by Professor David Colquhoun in ‘Nature’ (Vol 446/22 March 2007) that homeopathy is ‘anti-science.’ More ...
April 06 - Letter to The New Scientist
In his article ‘The Quantum Elixir’ Robert Matthews throws out a challenge to scientists to take homeopathic dilutions more seriously as they could potentially. More ...
