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Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 8 February 2009.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Science and Technology Committee, (Science and Technology Sub-Committee)

on Wednesday 25 November 2009

Members present

Mr Phil Willis, in the Chair	Dr Brian Iddon
Mr Tim Boswell	Ian Stewart
Dr Evan Harris	Graham Stringer

CONTENTS

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Memorandum submitted by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (HO 37)

Memorandum submitted by the British Association of Homeopathic Manufacturers (HO30)

Memorandum submitted by Sense About Science (HO36)

Memorandum submitted by Dr Ben Goldacre (HO 40)

Witnesses: Mr Paul Bennett, Professional Standards Director and Superintendent Pharmacist, Boots, Ms Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science, Mr Ben Goldacre, Journalist, Professor Jayne Lawrence, Chief Scientific Adviser, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and Mr Robert Wilson, Chairman, British Association of Homeopathic Manufacturers (BAHM), gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

1-111

Memorandum submitted by Dr Peter Fisher (HO 21)

Memorandum submitted by Professor Edzard Ernst (HO 16)

Supplementary memorandum submitted by Professor Edzard Ernst (HO 16a)

TABLE1: THE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW BY LINDE ET AL11 AND ITS SUBSEQUENT RE-ANALYSES

TABLE2: INDEPENDENT SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF HOMEOPATHY

TABLE3: SUMMARY OF CLINICAL EVIDENCE FOR HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES (COMPARISON OF OLD AND NEW EDITIONS OF “THE DESKTOP GUIDE TO COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE”)

Memorandum submitted by the NHS West Kent (HO 39)

Memorandum submitted by The British Homeopathic Association (HO 12)

Witnesses: Professor Edzard Ernst, Director, Complementary Medicine Group, Peninsula Medical School, Dr Peter Fisher, Director of Research, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, Dr Robert Mathie, Research Development Adviser, British Homeopathic Association, and Dr James Thallon, Medical Director, NHS West Kent, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

112-173

Supplementary memorandum submitted by Professor Edzard Ernst

Supplementary memorandum submitted by the British Homeopathic Association

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Prepared 22 February 2010