Concerns about pressure from charity influencing content of article by NHS Choices on effectiveness of homeopathy

Source: BMJ Area: News According to a news report in the BMJ, "an article on homeopathy on the public information website NHS Choices was stripped of all evidence questioning its effectiveness as a result of intervention by a charity."   Evidence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by David Colquhoun, emeritus professor of pharmacology at University College London indicates that even before the article on homeopathy was written, the Department of Health (DH) invited the writer to a meeting with the Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council to discuss the content. The draft article on homeopathy, which was written in January 2010 had said that many independent experts would say that "homeopathy does not work" and that "there is no good quality clinical evidence to show that homeopathy is more successful than placebo" It continued: "If the principles of homeopathy were true it would violate all the existing theories of science ...
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