Oh, you silly people! Don't you know that homeopathic medicine works better the less you take of it? By taking an 'overdose' you rendered it totally ineffective! If you really wanted to prove it works you should have taken none at all!

Oh, hang on a minute...

A good couple of articles, with more links in them

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/22/science-homeopathy-clinical-trials?INTCMP=SRCH

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/may/23/letsnotfundquacksinournh?INTCMP=SRCH

Ah well here is where you went wrong. Did you try dissolving the tablets in water, stirring vigorously while sitting naked looking at the full moon?

Human beings are good at self-delusion and it is very hard to shake an entrenched 'belief'.

At best the placebo effect might help with the minor ailments, not so of course for the terminally ill and that is where the real harm lies. You wonder why people make these sorts of choices when very ill, is it reaching out for that last hope when there is a sense of nothing more to lose? Or is it a general distrust of the mainstream, which in other circumstances might not be a bad thing.

The information is out there for everyone, it is just what happens in our heads next that determines choices made.

Did anyone else notice the ironic Google ads at bottom of the forum page offering Homeopathy courses?

I wonder how many people know that homeopathy can be studied in a so-called degree program, approved by a government accreditation body, where students are eligible for government support. This is a travesty of higher education.

Then there's the issue of health insurance companies that package non-evidence based therapies aka "trick therapies" such as homeopathy with evidence-based therapies. Consumer demand demands we all end up funding these useless treatments.