The Society of Homeopaths in the UK has constantly refused to engage in any meaningful way about how western homeopaths are travelling to Africa and setting up clinics that use homeopathic sugar pills to treat and prevent dangerous diseases, such as TB, malaria and HIV.<\/p>\n
This is a murderous practice. People will die if they are told that homeopathy is a ‘side-effect free\u2019 way of treating or preventing these diseases. People will die if they are told that homeopathy is an effective medicine.<\/p>\n
Very often it is their members who are involved by either volunteering at these clinics or donating money. The Society has responded to these criticisms with bluster and obfuscation. A typical statement<\/a> from them might read as,<\/p>\n The Society of Homeopaths, the UK\u2019s largest register of homeopaths with 1,500 members, does not endorse the use of homeopathic remedies with a view to preventing serious tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n These are hollow words. Recently, the Society held their annual seminar in York<\/a> where they invited Jeremy Sherr to talk. Sherr is one of the most notorious homeopaths in Africa (read about him on gimpy\u2019s blog<\/a>.) He has no shame in promoting his sugar pills amongst some of the most vulnerable people in Africa. For this, Sherr is lauded and treated like a god by UK homeopaths. The Society used the seminar to raise funds for Sherr, being helped along by Helios pharmacy and Lockton\u2019s Insurers.<\/p>\n This is how Sherr promotes his clinic. It is not easy watching.<\/p>\n