http://www.homeopathy-ecch.org/

In essence, in order to qualify to register as a Homeopath in Belgium, you have to be a proper medical doctor, midwife or nurse AND hold a degree in the subject from a proper university.

Basically, no one meets those criteria.

Finally, the idiocy of homeopathy is recognised.

Presumably over the counter voodoo remedies and medical self help books will still be available. So loopholes will quickly be found.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic

I always thought chiropractors were more 'legit' based on the amount of people I know who've used one

I always thought they were glorified masseur


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It does push it into the self diagnosis realm, and I expect it would open the door for "What the Doctor Doesn't Tell You" type publications. However, what it does do is close the door to the witch doctors who tell people with serious conditions to drop their treatment in favour of sucking sugar pills.

My mum was told by a practising GP in France to try homeopathy for various ailments, including breast cancer. She also told my mum that she got cancer because of stress. I wonder if she's been banned from practising yet :s


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I think the effect would probably be more limited than that. The same con artists (I work on the basis that believing your own lies makes you incompetent, not a truth teller) will still offer the same chargeable consultation services and as before, and then will flog you the same jar of wishes for your ailments.

Unless homeopaths, or whatever they are called, are criminalized and driven underground that is. That would entertain me, which I hope is deemed sufficient reason to do so. Actually that could be the basis for an amusing dystopian fiction.

Otherwise they would be barred from displaying certain certificates of medical worth that by definition their clients rarely look for; perhaps they can no longer receive direct referrals from the few GPs who consider them something other than placebo vendors; and presumably they will no longer be claimable on insurance or funded by the Belgian NHS (to whatever extent either ever applied).