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Friday 9 March 2018

The German title of 'Doctor of Homeopathy' should be obsolete (because even the most rigorously regulated education in nonsense can only result in nonsense)

Homeopathy has always enjoyed a special status in Germany, its country of origin. Germans use homeopathy more often than the citizens of most other countries, they spend more money on it, and they even have elevated it to some kind of medical speciality. In 2003, the German medical profession re-considered the requirements for carrying the title of ‘Doctor of Homeopathy’. It was decided that only physicians who already were specialists in one medical field were allowed to be certified with this title after a post-graduate education and training programme of 6 months, or 100 hours of case studies under supervision plus 160 hours of course work. Many German physicians seem to find this rigorously regulated programme attractive, opted for it, and earn good money with it; the number of ‘doctors of homeopathy’ has risen from 2212 to 6712 between 1993 and 2009...

>>> The German title of 'Doctor of Homeopathy' should be obsolete (because even the most rigorously regulated education in nonsense can only result in nonsense)