I think yes! And the demise has started in UK… This is NOT a sensational heading for an interesting article. Read the facts carefully! Do you know that Homeopathy is facing such a huge and systematic campaign in UK and most parts of the western world that
I think yes! And the demise has started in UK…
This is NOT a sensational
heading for an interesting article. Read the facts carefully!
Do you know that Homeopathy is facing such a huge and systematic
campaign in UK and most parts of the western world that even its
existence is now threatened?
We have always heard about the 1 Million prize to prove homeopathy
and the numerous skeptics forums on the Internet that try to ridicule
our Homeopathy, but things are rapidly spiraling downwards these
last 3 years. The big slide started after the Lancet issue.
In its August 2005 issue, The Lancet published a meta-analysis
which contended that homeopathic remedies are no better than placebo.
The article and the editorial were nothing but a big piece of crap
(Read
this review). But Lancet being one of the mouth pieces of the
modern scientific community, the issue got a lot of air and Homeopathy
received lot of negative publicity worldwide.
The most that the homeopathic community was able to do
at that time was …find faults with the article!
What an impotent response!!
What motivated a prestigious journal to publish such crap?
..No one knows. Big pharma money, pressure from advertisers ..or
the insecurity of conventional medicine ..we can only guess.
After that there have been VERY SYSTEMATIC efforts to clip
homeopathy from the corners. Look at the occurrences below:
1. Homeopathic Remedies were publicized as TOXIC! As a result Nosodes
got banned in France and many western countries. You can not even
buy Arsenic-alb, Nux-vom in Canada and Opium in US, even in 30C
or 200C ..because they are toxic! What a big joke!
But the bigger joke is that practitioners, schools and
organizations of the world’s so called second most popular system
of medicine, i.e. Homeopathy, are unable to do anything to prevent
that!
2. Homeopathy Remedies are then publicized as PLACEBO! The Lancet
issue just fueled the propaganda. The biggest scientific minds and
political leaders (idiots!) can not decide whether our remedies
are placebo or toxic.
But what have YOU done so far to make the people aware
of the truth??
3. Then a couple of UK scribes set up a sting operation against
Homeopaths in London to prove that Homeopaths are looting people
of their money by giving them prophylactic remedies for Malaria.
And next day Homeopathy was again in the headlines ..for all the
wrong reasons!
And what did the homeopathic community do? Everyone made a big
round mouth and said ‘Oh! How could those 9 fools do that!’. NOBODY
tried to defend these people by presenting our own philosophical
approach and historical evidence. Whether the remedies work prophylactically
or not is debatable.
BUT WHY WAS THE COMMUNITY NOT ABLE TO SEE THE LARGER PURPOSE OF
THE WHOLE INCIDENT? It was a stage managed negative publicity
event for homeopathy! Nobody asked the most basic questions – who
tipped off the scribes with such information? Who financed the sting
operation? And WHY??
4. Then they started another move to stop the B. Sc. degree in
Homeopathy in UK. The skeptics started a propaganda that Homeopathy
is not a science, so the UK universities should stop giving a Bachelor’s
Degree in Science for Homeopathy. They have been so successful with
their campaign that in the near future, we might see universities
stop giving those degrees.
And what have we done as a community? Most of
us are happy that we are done with our education or that we have
a school that is not giving a B. Sc. degree!
5. Then they started another campaign to close the four homeopathic
hospitals being run by the UK Government under the NHS. Their claim
was that the tax payer’s money should not go into anything unscientific.
They have been nearly successful with this campaign also.
And as usual the homeopathic community has been on the
defensive.
Those who are organizing this anti-homeopathy campaign have been
SO SUCCESSFUL that most homeopaths in UK have seen a 50% drop in
their practice in the last 2 years. In fact most of them get to
see only 3-4 patients a week. Most of them are looking to add other
things with their practice like massage, acupuncture etc. They can’t
earn their bread with their homeopathic practice.
Don’t you think this is frightening???
And if you think they have done it all …then you are WRONG!
There is more coming. Articles against homeopathy have already
appeared in the Daily Mail, Guardian, Scotsman, Evening Standard,
Sunday Times, Primary Care Today, Nature and more. Lancet is planning
another issue on Homeopathy. There might be other sting operations
and anti-homeopathy legislations on the way…
They think of it this way …Let’s make the sale of homeopathy
remedies difficult, let’s make so much negative publicity for Homeopathy
in public that people stop going to the homeopaths …the homeopaths
can’t earn their bread and butter from homeopathy, they take up
other professions …since no one can make a living out of it, nobody
will enroll in the schools ..the schools will die soon too
…its just a slow and steady death that we are being given
…we ARE bleeding to death.
Some of the Indian Homeopaths won’t be able to identify with this
as they are living in a safe homeopathic heaven for the time being.
Most of them don’t know what’s going on around the world. But sooner
or later you will face the music too.
And what are we doing together as a community?
We know that Homeopathy has revived in the last 3 decades, that
Homeopathy cures, that Homeopathic remedies are not placebo, that
the Big Pharma and so called scientists are waging an anti-homeopathy
war ..in fact an anti-alternative medicine campaign.
They are killing your freedom to choose what works for
you.
But how many people walking down your street know this??
Ask yourself:
Why are our societies always answering
in defense? Why do we react only after the harm has been done?
Why don’t we come together to take
Homeopathy to the masses, to EVERYONE!
Why can’t we rise above our different schools, ideologies and methodologies
and our ego systems and work together for our system.
Those of you who are sitting in your cocoons and shells outside
UK, be it Greece, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Mumbai, Calcutta
or any other center of Homeopathy – don’t think that things can
never go wrong in your country. If Homeopathy goes down in UK, it
will go down in the European Union. And if it goes down there, saving
it in the rest of the world would be difficult.
Remember, at the turn of the last century there were 25 full-time
homeopathic medical colleges in USA and every third doctor was a
homeopath. If Homeopathy could evaporate from such a strong position
simply because of the political and financial strength of the allopathic
syndicate, why can’t history repeat itself now??
If something is not done NOW, we could be fighting a lost battle
very soon.
We need to do something. But the big question is WHAT?
FIRST, LET US STOP BEING DEFENSIVE! LET US COME TOETHER
AND WORK TO COUNTERACT THIS ANTI-HOMEOPATHY CAMPAIGN AND TO TAKE
HOMEOPATHY TO EVERYONE.
Hpathy.com, world’s leading homeopathy portal being developed by
the homeopathic community, is taking up an initiative to bring together
people from all walks of life, all schools and all ideologies to
create a TEAM that will work together
for the above purpose.
If you can do anything for reversing the anti-homeopathy tide in
UK-
- If you are a representative of –
- Society of Homeopaths or –
- Alliance of Registered Homeopaths
- Faculty of Homeopaths
- Any other formal organization
- ECH
- ECCH
- If you run a homeopathic school in UK
- If you lead a study-group
- If you run a homeopathic pharmacy
- If you have contacts in media
- If you write to any large mailing list (even non-homeopathic)
- If you are a homeopathic publisher or book seller
- If you can do anything to promote homeopathy
- If you are a known leader in homeopathic circles
- If you want to preserve your freedom of choice regarding alternative
medicine - If you love homeopathy
- If Homeopathy has given you anything
- If you have ever seen a homeopathic cure
- If you love the holistic concept of health, disease and cure
given by Hahnemann…
Then I invite you to join hands with us to create a force that
will tackle the anti-homeopathy tide, not on the back foot but on
the front foot, not just from defense, but pro-actively!
Every hand counts, every small effort can help us achieve our goals.
Every one of you is important in this fight against
the people who wish to kill homeopathy. Join hands
…and we will work together to create awareness about homeopathy
in the public, to counter negative publicity in media, to send positive
vibes and coverage, to promote clinical research, to create better
standards, to stand with each other in this hour of need.
Remember if there is demand for homeopathy by the masses, if everyone
gets to experience its magic, if every family has a cured case,
the skeptics will never succeed in their efforts.
Don’t think ‘Oh! But what can I do alone?’
You are NOT alone. There are nearly half a million people like
you who love homeopathy. If each one of us starts putting in efforts
in a planned manner, we will be a force hard to beat. TOGETHER
we can reverse this tide, alone we will be swept away!
So if you are in any category listed above, write to me at mail@hpathy.com
to join our international team to preserve and promote homeopathy.
Hpathy.com, world’s leading homeopathy portal is also the result
of the homeopathic community working for itself. Let’s replicate
our success on the ground too.
Remember, a stick alone is easy to break. You tie a handful
of them in a bundle and even the strongest arms will find it hard
to break them.
Write to me right away at mail@hpathy.com
Yours in Homeopathy,
– Chief Editor –
Homeopathy 4 Everyone
Manish Bhatia
