ホメオパシー及び人智学医療製品の欧州での市場規模は10億ユーロ

代替医療系非営利法人ECHAMPによれば、3年連続で欧州におけるホメオパシー及び人智学医療製品の売り上げは10億ユーロを超えた。

A new study values the total EU market for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products in 2010 at €　1.035 billion, showing that the EU industry for these products exceeded the €　1 billion mark for the third year in a row.

新たな調査によれば、ホメオパシー及び製品の2010年の欧州での市場規模は10.35億ユーロであり、3年連続10億ユーロを超えた。

[EU industry for homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products exceeds €1 billion for third year in a row (2011/12/15) on ECHAMP]

これについてDr. Ben Goldacreは次のようにコメントしている。“That’s a lot of money spent on sugar pills,” Dr Ben Goldacre, a leading scientist and expert on homeopathy, told New Europe. .... Goldacre was scathing about performing more trials of such preparations: “We've had more than 100 homeopathy trials now. For any medical treatment, after 100 trials have failed to give good overall evidence of benefit, this is the point at which a sensible person, with no vested interests in that one particular treatment, would loudly and clearly state: 'No more money should be spent researching this blind alley.'

砂糖錠に多くのムダ金が使われている、... 我々は100回以上、ホメオパシーの臨床試験を行った。100回以上やって効果が示せなかったら、賢明かつ、特定療法に既得権益を持たない人なら、大声で明確に言える『袋小路の研究にこれ以上のお金をつぎ込むべきでない』と。

[€1 billion spent on homeopathy and anthrosophic medicine in EU (2011/12/16) on NewEurope]