200 years of homeopathy against malaria – and still utterly hopeless

Malaria is an infection caused by protozoa usually transmitted via mosquito bites. Malaria is an important disease for homeopaths because of Hahnemann’s quinine experiment: it made him postulate his ‘like cures like’ theory. Today, many experts assume that Hahnemann misinterpreted the results of this experience. Yet most homeopaths are still convinced that potentised cinchona bark […]

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World's first malaria vaccination approved

European regulators give Mosquirix the green light to be used on babies at risk of the mosquito-borne disease in Africa.

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Ottolenghi and the Quack HIV Homeopaths in Africa | The Quackometer Blog

This blog has been a long term critic of the Society of Homeopaths, and other British Homeopathic organisations, who support their members who practice homeopathy in Africa on people with life threatening conditions such as malaria, HIV and TB. Indeed, the Society of Homeopaths threatened to sue me and my web hosts for pointing out that the Society did nothing to stop these dangerous
practices, despite their Code of Ethics suggesting they should and despite the fact that treating people with homeopathic sugar pills could kill them if it interfered with real medical attention.

The subject has received its fair share of media attention too, with BBC Newsnight performing ‘secret camera’ investigations into UK homeopaths who give travellers sugar pills instead of malaria tablets when travelling to Africa. The BBC also found Neal’s Yard Remedies offering similar lethal advice.


The Independent,working with the Kenyan Standard newspaper and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, found UK-funded homeopathy groups telling people with HIV they will not need ARV drugs if they take homeopathy – lethal advice.

Read more about this horrific exploitation of a serious chronic illness by evangelistic quacks here: Ottolenghi and the Quack HIV Homeopaths in Africa | The Quackometer Blog