General Article What does the public really think about homeopathy?

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There is nothing more likely to raise the hackles of any self-respecting rationalist than to be confronted with the latest celebrity story about the miraculous healing power of homeopathy or some other ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ quackery. Or, embarrassingly, to discover that some of your best friends are also devotees.

This isn’t a new bugbear in response to some kind of New Age, middle-class hippiedom. Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to a cousin:

You speak about Homeopathy; which is...

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