Of course homeopathy works!

I’ve been a bit perplexed by the recent negative coverage of homeopathy in some sections of the media.
By the end of 2009, there were 74 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of homeopathy published in peer-reviewed journals, which describe statistically significant results, from which firm conclusions can be drawn. Of these RCTs comparing homeopathy either with placebo or established conventional treatments, 63 were positive for homeopathy and 11 were negative.
Anecdotal evidence also suggests that homeopathic treatment has great health benefits for the patient. In the Independent Newspaper of 26 February 2010, the reporter Jeremy Laurance had actually taken the trouble of going to the Royal London Homeopathic hospital and talking to the patients there. Needless to say they had nothing but praise for their homeopathic treatment.
If there is clear evidence of the effectiveness of homeopathic treatment, then why is this not made public? Consider this: The NHS spends £11 billion on its annual drugs budget. Of that, the annual bill for homeopathic medicine is £152,000. Ask yourself: What would the effect be if the NHS spends a much greater portion of its annual drugs budget on homeopathic medicine? Let’s also be clear about the fact that homeopathic medicine costs a fraction of conventional medicine.
You may soon not be offered the choice of homeopathic treatment on the NHS anymore, judging from the recent publication by the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee, ‘Evidence Check: Homeopathy’, which also inexplicably ignored the existing evidence from RCT’s.
The biased approach of the Committee’s investigation has not escaped unnoticed, though. Early Day Motion (EDM) 908 that has been tabled by the MP David Tredinnick, questions the findings of the Science & Technology Committee about homeopathy. If you’ve benefited from homeopathic treatment and want to continue to have the choice of homeopathic treatment on the NHS, click here to ask your MP to sign EDM 908.