Nick cohen observer article/George Vithoulkas

[mary hughes]

Another attempt to correct the rubbish the Guardian/Observer attempt to present as the 'truth'.

I have suggested he use an alternative newspaper as they are obviously not interested in the truth.

mary
Response by Prof. George Vithoulkas to the comment of Nick Cohen in Observer
(the response was sent to the editor of Observer but never was published)
Dear Editor,
I have very seldom seen an article so biased against homeopathy written
by somebody so intelligent as Mr.Cohen but at the same time with such lack
of knowledge about this subject and also so ingenious in misinforming the public.
Citronella oil is not a homeopathic remedy. It is a herb, obviously Mr. Cohen confuses herbalism with homeopathy.
His misinformation goes further when he quotes Van der Zee -a supposedly homeopathic practitioner- stating that homeopathy cures AIDS! -something that would enrage any serious homeopath- and uses this statement as an argument or an excuse for discrediting homeopathy!
A lot of false claims were made in the past by pharmaceutical industries yet nobody thought to connect it with the whole of medicine and declared it as fake or spurious.
Do you know why such statements as the one by Van der Zee are "available" today? Because there is no legalization and legislation for the education of homeopathy in a higher learning institution. The matter has been left to the good will of any school of thought so the population does not know who is a homeopath and who is not.
By the way, I want to propose to the editor of "The Observer" to instigate a debate between myself and a professor of medicine, -the most vicious they can find against homeopathy- in a series of articles once a week alternatively answering one another. This may be a good beginning to understand that though we may have differences or misunderstandings, we also have common grounds and that we all search for the good of the patients.
Allow me to say that constructive criticism is the royal road to improvement for all, misinformation is the secret path in amassing privileges for the few.
Yours sincerely,
George Vithoulkas (www.vithoulkas.com )
Alternative Nobel Prize, 1996
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