Canada cancels aid through homeopathic charity in Honduras

Some rarely heard of good news: Canada cancels homeopathic foreign aid to Honduras:

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The Canadian government will no longer fund homeopathic therapies in Honduras. The move comes after an outcry about public funds going to support alternative therapies that have not been proven effective

It is of course saddening to note that C$200,000 in aid has already been wasted, but that popular outcry can stop the idiocy is a very good thing.

Unusual for a news article, there is no holding back, or attempt to excuse the homoeopaths:

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"It's not like there's an ongoing scientific debate here," says Tim Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. "It's like flying carpets. It's really that level of nonsense."

It is also unusual for a scientist not to use expressions like "undocumented effect" which is a language that the average public cannot decode to mean "nonsense".

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2XPf3zC