The apparent suicide of an Austrian physician and supporter of COVID-19 vaccination raises troubling questions about online hatred and the adequacy of the official response to it.
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As soon as those ivory tower scientists starting paying attention, they started to realize that homeopathy just doesn’t deliver the goods. Even leaving the extreme scientific implausibility aside, the clinical evidence is not there. Homeopathy does not work. After 200 years homeopathy has nothing to show for itself scientifically, and it is hard to argue that this is due to bias against this practice when Germany considers itself the home of homeopathy, with a massive cultural bias in its favor.
Ernst also noted that the response of homeopaths, especially when their sales started to drop, was typical for
CAM proponents – they did not marshal better evidence, look inward at their practices, or talk about reform. No – they went on a marketing blitz. Further, this marketing was largely framed around vicious personal attacks against the scientists who were simply pointing out that homeopathy is literally nothing. As Ernst points out, their personal attacks took familiar forms: �