Brit MPs Call for a Ban on Homeopathic Treatment

British parliamentarians have called for a ban on homeopathic treatment, which costs the country four million pounds-a-year despite the fact that they have no scientific basis.

According to a report by the Commons Science and Technology Committee, the alternative therapy has not been proven to work beyond a placebo effect for patients, the Daily Express reports.

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The report concluded that the British Government's position on homeopathy was "confused," and it risked giving patients wrong information.

Homeopathy is claimed to work on a like-cures-like basis where sufferers get a diluted form of the substance that causes illness to trigger the body's natural healing process.

However, a doctor and journalist Ben Goldacre said: "There have now been around 200 trials against placebo sugar pills and, taken collectively, they show that there is no evidence that homeopathy pills are any better."

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But Paula Ross chief executive of the Society of Homeopaths, said: "The evidence shows that homeopathy is effective beyond placebo. Scientists have yet to understand how." (ANI)

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