Birmingham Skeptics have launched a new blog, with a post from Jack of Kent noting Birmingham’s tradition of free thought:
Birmingham was always more of market town than an industrial town, though it was one where small businesses could easily set up. Before the Cadburys there was really little large scale factory production. And matched with [...]
Chief Executive of the British Homeopathic Society, Cristal Sumner, states with regard to the Parliamentary Science committee’s devastating report on homeopathy:
‘It does seem an irresponsible way of decision-making for a Committee of four voting members to draw conclusions that impact the health and welfare of thousands of patients from just four and half hours [...]
The House of Commons select committee on science and technology has been examining homeopathy, and their report has been just been released. The main focus will be on the committee’s view that both NHS funding and MHRA licencing should be withdrawn. I’ll focus on the parts related more directly to Pharmacy and the Royal Pharmaceutical [...]
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain appears to have changed its opinion on homeopathy. The poor quality information on the RPSGB’s website is to be pulled and replaced.
On Monday the Council of the Society decided it did not endorse homeopathy, due to the lack of scientific evidence to demonstrate its effectiveness, and agreed to [...]
Today 1023 held their mass overdose event, using homeopathic preparations, outside Boots the Chemists. I’ve already detailed my views on this with regard to the wider profession of pharmacy – it is not a problem only associated with Boots. However, the BBC report today has some two (amongst other) poor defenses of the sale of [...]
Last year, I supported spoke in favour of a motion by a colleague, Dr Angela Alexander, to make the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) issue a position paper suggesting homeopathy does not fit within the professional healthcare role of the pharmacist.
Motion
It is the opinion of this meeting that the Society should produce a [...]
The supplier of homeopathy to the Queen is under investigation:
The company, Ainsworths, has been accused of “quackery” for supplying bottles of pills labelled as “Swine Flu Formula” for people suffering from the disease.
The British Medical Association (BMA) warned it would be dangerous if the treatment caused people to delay seeking medical help and said the [...]
Stephen J Evans, Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, on the recent licensing of a homeopathy preparation in this weeks BMJ:
It is tragic that we now have a respected body, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), granting a licence for a product for which there is not only no evidence of efficacy but good evidence against [...]
This morning I was at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s Branch Representative meeting representing the Birmingham and District branch. It’s a yearly meeting, and an opportunity for the local branches of the organisation to pass motions which can be used to steer the organisation. One of the motions, submitted by the Slough and [...]