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Author:  paulzolo [ Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
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On 29 April 1999, in line with the international and national recommendations on complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies expressed by bodies such as the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, the Belgian Parliament voted in the Colla Law in order to initially regulate practitioners of four of the most popular CAM practices in Belgium: acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy and osteopathy.

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.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
Finally, the idiocy of homeopathy is recognised.
Author:  ShockWaffle [ Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
Presumably over the counter voodoo remedies and medical self help books will still be available. So loopholes will quickly be found.
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
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 :o
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:39 am ]
Post subject:  Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
I always thought they were glorified masseur


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Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
ShockWaffle wrote:
Presumably over the counter voodoo remedies and medical self help books will still be available. So loopholes will quickly be found.

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.
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 7:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
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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Author:  ShockWaffle [ Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:06 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Belgium effectively bans Homeopathy
paulzolo wrote:
ShockWaffle wrote:
Presumably over the counter voodoo remedies and medical self help books will still be available. So loopholes will quickly be found.

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.

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).
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