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Document Full Title Earl Baldwin of Bewley, Observations on the report Evidence Check 2: Baldwin Critique.pdf Homeopathy by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, February 2010 (2010). Paolo Bellavite and Andrea Signorini, The Emerging Science of Bellavite p45.pdf Homeopathy: Complexity, biodynamics, and nanopharmacology (Berkley: North Atlantic Books, 2002), p. 45. BHA Critique 0.rtf BHA Critique 1.rtf BHA Critique 2.rtf BHA comments at <http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/wp- BHA Critique 3.rtf content/uploads/2013/08/ST-parts-1-6.pdf>. BHA Critique 4.rtf BHA Critique 5.rtf BHA Critique 6.rtf ‘How much do we know?’, BMJ Clinical Evidence at BMJ Evidence 2008.webarchive <http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp>, accessed 18 May 2008. ‘How much do we know?’, BMJ Clinical Evidence at BMJ Evidence 2010.webarchive <http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp>, accessed 3 May 2010. BNF Digitalis 1.webarchive British National Formulary, § 2.1.1 ‘Cardiac glycosides’. BNF Digitalis 2.webarchive British National Formulary, § 2.1.1 ‘Cardiac glycosides’; ‘Digoxin’. British National Formulary, § 12.2.2 ‘Topical nasal decongestants’; BNF Rebound 01.webarchive ‘Sympathomimetics’; ‘Ephedrine Hydrochloride’. British National Formulary, § 10.2.2 ‘Skeletal muscle relaxants’; BNF Rebound 02.webarchive ‘Tizanidine’. British National Formulary, § 4.8.1 ‘Control of epilepsy’; ‘Phenobarbital BNF Rebound 03.webarchive and other barbiturates’. British National Formulary, § 4.10 ‘Drugs used in substance BNF Rebound 04.webarchive dependence’; ‘Opioid dependence’; ‘Lofexidine Hydrochloride’. BNF Rebound 05.webarchive British National Formulary, § 4.1.1 ‘Hypnotics’; ‘Sodium Oxybate’. BNF Rebound 06.webarchive British National Formulary, § 12.2.2 ‘Topical nasal decongestants’. British National Formulary, § 2.8.3 ‘Protamine sulphate’; ‘Protamine BNF Rebound 07.webarchive Sulphate’. British National Formulary, § 4.4 ‘CNS stimulants and drugs used for BNF Rebound 08.webarchive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder’; ‘Methylphenidate Hydrochloride’. BNF Rebound 09.webarchive British National Formulary, § 13.4 ‘Topical corticosteroids’. BNF Rebound 10.webarchive British National Formulary, § 4.1.1 ‘Hypnotics’. British National Formulary, § 2.8.1 ‘Parenteral anticoagulants’; BNF Rebound 11.webarchive ‘Heparin’. BNF Rebound 12.webarchive British National Formulary, § 1.1.1 ‘Antacids and simeticone’. BNF Rebound 13.webarchive British National Formulary, § 4.2.3 ‘Antimanic drugs’; ‘Lithium’. British National Formulary, § 4.2.1 ‘Antipsychotic drugs’; ‘Atypical BNF Rebound 14.webarchive antipsychotic drugs’; ‘Clozapine’. BNF Rebound 15.webarchive British National Formulary, § 4.8.1 ‘Control of epilepsy’. BNF Rebound 16.webarchive British National Formulary, § 13.5.2 ‘Preparations for psoriasis’. British National Formulary, § 2.5.5.1 ‘Angiotensin-converting enzyme BNF Rebound 17.webarchive inhibitors’. BNF Rebound 18.webarchive British National Formulary, § 2.4 ‘Beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs’. British National Formulary, § 4.4 ‘CNS stimulants and drugs used for BNF Ritalin 1.webarchive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder’. British National Formulary, § 4.4 .CNS stimulants and drugs used for BNF Ritalin 2.webarchive attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ‘Methylphenidate Hydrochloride’. G. Bracho, E. Varela, R. Fernández, B. Ordaz, N. Marzoa, J. Menéndez, L. García, E. Gilling, R. Leyva, R. Rufín, R. de la Torre, R.L. Solis, N. Bracho.pdf Batista, R. Borrero, C. Campa, ‘Large-scale application of highly-diluted bacteria for Leptospirosis epidemic control’, Homeopathy, 99 (2010), 156-166. Document Full Title William Alderson, ‘A Check Without Balance’, Counterfire website, 9 July 2010, available at Check No Balance.pdf <http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/opinion/5863- homeopathy-cutting-on-the-bias>, or at <http://www.hmc21.org/#/check- without-balance/4543591988>. Coulter p23.pdf Harris L. Coulter, Homoeopathic Science and Modern Medicine (Berkeley: Coulter p24.pdf North Atlantic Books, 1981), pp. 23 and 24. Alex Heffron, ‘Homeopathic Prevention of Leptospirosis in Cuba’, UK Homeopathy News website, 2 September 2010, at Cuba Costs.webarchive <http://ukhomeopathynews.com/2010/09/homeopathic-prevention-of- leptospirosis-in-cuba/>, accessed 7 December 2010. Finlay Institute, Cuban Experiences on Leptospirosis, conference paper at Nosodes 2008: International Meeting on Homeoprophilaxis, Homeopathic Cuba Vaccines.pdf Immnunisation and Nosodes Against Epidemics, 10-12 December 2008, Havana, Cuba, slide 25 ‘Comparing Interventions: Holguin, Granma and Las Tunas; 2007-2008’. John Naish, 'Roger Daltrey: homoeopathy saved my baby's life', The Daltrey.webarchive Times, 1 May 2008. Michael Emmans Dean, The Trials of Homeopathy: Origins, Structure and Dean p244.pdf Development (Essen: KVC Verlag, 2004), pp. 244-245. ‘Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)’, Cornell University website at Digitalis Toxicity.webarchive <http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/digitalis.html> Department of Health ‘Homoeopathic Services document’, 25 October 2007, DoH Logo.webarchive Gateway ref. 8971. Government Response to the Science and Technology Committee report DoH Response.pdf 'Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy’, presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, July 2010. ‘Interview mit Professor Edzard Ernst, Exeter’, Homöopathische Ernst German.pdf Nachrichten, April 2010, available at <http://www.hmc21.org/#/edzard- ernst/4543212059>. E. Ernst, ‘A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy’, Ernst Review.pdf British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 54 (2002) , 577–582. Ursula Kraus-Harper (trans.), Interview with Professor Edzard Ernst, Ernst Translation.pdf Exeter (Stoke Ferry: Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century, 2010) available at <http://www.hmc21.org/#/edzard-ernst/4543212059>. ‘Memorandum submitted by Dr Peter Fisher’ (HO 21), House of Commons Evidence Check.pdf Science and Technology Committee, Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy (London: The Stationery Office Limited, 2010), pp. Ev 25-26. ‘Clinical outcomes studies’, Faculty of Homeopathy website at Faculty Clinical <http://www.facultyofhomeopathy.org/research/clinical_outcomes_studie Studies.webarchive s.html>, accessed 27 November 2010. ‘Randomised controlled trials in homeopathy’, Faculty of Homeopathy Faculty RCT website at Evidence.webarchive <http://www.facultyofhomeopathy.org/research/rcts_in_homeopathy/inde x.html>, accessed 27 November 2010. ‘Systematic reviews of RCTs in homeopathy’, Faculty of Homeopathy website at Faculty Reviews.webarchive <http://www.facultyofhomeopathy.org/research/systematic_reviews/index .html>, accessed 27 November 2010. H. Frei and A. Thurneysen, ‘Treatment for hyperactive children: homeopathy Frei.pdf and methylphenidate compared in a family setting’, British Homeopathic Journal, 90 (2001), 183- 188. Goldacre p52.pdf Ben Goldacre, Bad Science (London: Fourth Estate, 2008), pp. 52-55. Goldacre p54.pdf Hahnemann p96.pdf See Samuel Hahnemann (trans. William Boericke), Organon of Medicine, Hahnemann p98.pdf 6th edn, manuscript completed 1841, 1st English edn 1921 (Calcutta: Roy Hahnemann p160.pdf Publishing House, repr. edn 1972), §§ 11 and n., pp. 96-98, § 81, p. 160, § Hahnemann p187.pdf 120, p. 187. Document Full Title Samuel Hahnemann, ‘Protection against infection in epidemic diseases’ in The Friend of Health: Part I (Frankfurt am Main: [n. pub.], 1792) in Samuel Hahnemann p168.pdf Hahnemann (trans. R E Dudgeon MD), The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, 1851 edn (New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, repr. edn 2002. Samuel Hahnemann, ‘Things that spoil the air’ in The Friend of Health: Part I (Frankfurt am Main: [n. pub.], 1792) in Samuel Hahnemann (trans. R Hahnemann p178.pdf E Dudgeon MD), The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, 1851 edn (New Delhi: B. Jain Publishers, repr. edn 2002. Samuel Hahnemann (trans. R E Dudgeon), ‘Author’s Preface to the 3rd Hahnemann p2.pdf Edition, 1830’ in Materia Medica Pura (New Delhi: B Jain Publishers, repr. edn 2002), p. 2. The first edition of the first volume was published in 1811. Samuel Hahnemann (trans. R E Dudgeon), Appeal to Thinking Philanthropists Respecting the Mode of Propagation of the Asiatic Cholera, Hahnemann p758.pdf (Leipzig: the author, 1831) in The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, 1851 edition (New Delhi: B Jain Publishers, repr. edn 2002), pp. 758-759. Halloween Science; A critique of Trick or Treatment? by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst written by William Alderson RSHom LLSCH on behalf Halloween Abstract.pdf of H:MC21: Abstract (Stoke Ferry: Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century, 2009), available at <http://www.hmc21.org/#/halloween- science/4535659799>. William Alderson, Halloween Science, The Truth about Trick or Treatment? by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst (Stoke Ferry: Homeopathy: Halloween Science.pdf Medicine for the 21st Century, 2009), available at <http://www.hmc21.org/#/halloween-science/4535659799>. Register of Members’ Interests for Evan Harris MP at Harris Register.webarchive <http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10261> Harris Sense About ‘Science and the General Election’, Sense About Science website, Science.webarchive accessed 6 Decemer 2010. ‘Homeopathic Mass ‘Overdose’ – The 10:23 Campaign’, Merseyside Harris Ten23.webarchive Skeptics Society website, accessed 6 December 2010. Francis Treuherz , ‘When did Hering first mention his ‘Law’?’, Hering’s Law First.webarchive Homeopathy, 94 (2005), 265. Foreword by
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