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Countries across the world are withdrawing state support for homeopathy. In India, public funding for it has more than doubled in the last decade.
Editor's note: Homeopathy is hokum, say scientists. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t seem to think so. At the National Homeopathic Conference in 2012, he explained how he had experienced its benefits first-hand. “This was in 1991-92,” Modi, then Gujarat’s chief minister, recalled. “I was on the road for 45 days as part of the Ekta Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Every 15 kilometres, we would stop at a village, give speeches. It’s obvious that one’s throat would give out. Then, [actor] Manoj Kumar sent some homeopathic medicine for me. For the next 45 days, it made sure I was okay.” For decades, scientists have rejected homeopathy’s efficacy. In 2010, a report by the UK’s House of Commons found that homeopathy is little more than a placebo. In 2015, Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council analysed 225 papers on the alternative medicine system to reach the same conclusion. Last year, the health minister of Germany, where homeopathy originated, said that homeopathic medicine has no place in the statutory health insurance system. France stopped reimbursing patients for homeopathic treatments from 2021. Despite …
Countries across the world are withdrawing state support for homeopathy. In India, public funding for it has more than doubled in the last decade.
Editor's note: Homeopathy is hokum, say scientists. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t seem to think so. At the National Homeopathic Conference in 2012, he explained how he had experienced its benefits first-hand. “This was in 1991-92,” Modi, then Gujarat’s chief minister, recalled. “I was on the road for 45 days as part of the Ekta Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Every 15 kilometres, we would stop at a village, give speeches. It’s obvious that one’s throat would give out. Then, [actor] Manoj Kumar sent some homeopathic medicine for me. For the next 45 days, it made sure I was okay.” For decades, scientists have rejected homeopathy’s efficacy. In 2010, a report by the UK’s House of Commons found that homeopathy is little more than a placebo. In 2015, Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council analysed 225 papers on the alternative medicine system to reach the same conclusion. Last year, the health minister of Germany, where homeopathy originated, said that homeopathic medicine has no place in the statutory health insurance system. France stopped reimbursing patients for homeopathic treatments from 2021. Despite …
It is the logical consequence of foreign policy built on a decade of illusion rather than the realities of power. The question is whether anyone in the government has the courage to admit it.
The Centre has proposed to open up the retail electricity market, hoping competition will fix India’s loss-making discoms. The states fear a power grab. The outcome will shape the next phase of India’s energy transition.
Decades of investment in health and social infrastructure went into getting the southern state’s infant mortality rate down to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births—far lower than the national average of 25.
It is the logical consequence of foreign policy built on a decade of illusion rather than the realities of power. The question is whether anyone in the government has the courage to admit it.
The Centre has proposed to open up the retail electricity market, hoping competition will fix India’s loss-making discoms. The states fear a power grab. The outcome will shape the next phase of India’s energy transition.
Decades of investment in health and social infrastructure went into getting the southern state’s infant mortality rate down to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births—far lower than the national average of 25.
