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While there is a time and a place for complementary or mood-enhancing treatments such as massage, it seems at the moment that the pendulum has swung too far in favour of mumbo-jumbo and quackery, rather than scientific evidence.

We believe that all medical treatments paid for from the public purse should be obliged to submit themselves to formal blind trials and peer review.

Specifically, there is no reliable medical or scientific evidence to support the efficacy of homeopathy. All such 'evidence' always turns out to be anecdotal and not the result of formal blind trials. Conversely, where formal trials have been performed, no evidence has emerged to suggest that homepathic treatments are any better than placebos.

The inescapable conclusion is that taxpayers are being conned.

Current signatories

Alan Moore, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Phillip Bennett
• l wells
• Robert Shields
• Ian T Price
• Ross Ryles
• bob rayner
• David Allsopp
• Daniel Henderson
• Danielle Brooke
• K.Edge
• Nicholas Lee
• Cheryl Dennison
• Andrew Lewis
• Martin Ibbotson
• Daniel Rochelle
• Andrew Clegg
• A Hale
• justin kilcullennichols
• Stephen Flower
• Michael Godfrey HARMAN
• Chris Hughes
• James Russell
• George Goodfellow
• Mike Simpson
• Duncan Casey
• james lawrence
• Madeleine Hayes
• Annela Seddon
• Gareth Powell
• Karen Hawker
• Alexander Smith
• James Brett Parkin
• Trevor Mathers
• Chris Long
• Grant MacDonald
• Neil Macdonald
• Ian Brownlie
• Matt Ollis
• Charles Watson
• patricia martin
• Sean Beattie
• Dean Morrison
• Stuart Blackman
• Peter Bowley
• Shona McCulloch
• Neil James Young
• iain moore
• James Clark Graham
• Sebastian Spain
• John Hawcock
• Sarah Byrne
• Simon Thelwall
• Derren Phillips
• Tristan O'Dwyer
• Martin Haynes
• John Chivall
• Mark Duwe
• Bruce Walton
• John Jackson
• John Lake
• George Ricks
• Andrew McConachie
• David Priestman
• William Ricketts
• Huw Davies
• Eleanor Turpin
• Simon Stilwell
• Andrew Merritt
• Simon Hindley
• N. Ford
• Dean Morrison
• Shaun Whitfield
• Ken Zetie
• Tracy King
• James Russell
• Rachel Gibson
• Matthew Lister
• john oliver
• Tony Lord
• Ray Bayley
• Ray Bayley
• Donald Ormiston
• Chris Jenkinson
• Joe Otten
• P.J.W. Golden
• James graham
• Jonny Wright
• Tristan Mills
• Dan Bradley
• Laurence Boyce
• C.J.E. Armstrong
• Graham Foxcroft
• Jon Ayling
• Anthony Rose
• Martin Clewett
• Rob Ager
• Steve Bassett
• Ed Waddingham
• Stuart Jones
• Peter Flegg
• S. Abu-Hayyeh
• Trevor Powell
• David Harris
• Jeremy Taylor
• Matt Robbins
• Joanne Reade
• Simon Harding
• Paul Boldrin
• Colin Taylor
• Diana Smith
• Henry J Webster
• Deborah Timmins
• JM Fisher
• CTayt
• Christopher Hurley
• Elsa Bartley
• Stuart Mason
• Paul Robinson
• Jonathan Hildrew
• Mark Baker
• Rachael King
• Natalie Howard
• Nathan Hewitt
• Lynda Upton
• Rhona Hyslop
• Derek R Allum
• KEVIN NORWOOD
• Nick Jones
• Robbie Tunks
• Vexen Crabtree
• Jenny O'Leary
• Louis Guiot
• Thomas Roberts
• Andrew Bellamy
• Brian Pears