CBC Marketplace lack of reporting integrity produces show that takes the absurd stand that homeopathy is ‘unscientific’ and based on ‘belief’.

by Marilyn Freedman

On Friday, January 14th at 8pm – Cure or Con?
Erica Johnson investigates homeopathy-one of the fastest-growing alternative health practices in the country. And it’s about to get a huge credibility boost in Ontario, which is about to become the first province to regulate the industry. But does homeopathy really stand up to close scrutiny? MARKETPLACE conducts a test-the first of its kind in Canada-of homeopathic remedies, and looks at the sometimes-disturbing ways these medicines are being used as a replacement for more traditional therapies .

“disturbing” already tells us that homeopathy, through the lens of this “investigation” is not an option.

It is too bad that there is no regulation of reporters, or the media that they work for, to produce unbiased and objective news. The days of watching American broadcast journalist, Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America” are long gone, died with the man himself. Today’s journalists are all about hype and exposure. They don’t even take the time to get their facts straight.

In this case it’s not just about getting the facts straight before going on air. It seems that the show was aired to specifically sabotage the fast rising sales of homeopathic medicine, the regulation of our profession, and their portrayal of our profession as one that might be dangerous, by their one sided negative stand, . The producers would not even engage with highly experienced Canadian practitioners, pro-homeopathic scientists, or journalists. The agenda was simply to portray homeopathy in a negative light.

It makes us wonder if, as it happened in the UK with skeptics and their organizations being funded by pharmaceutical companies to discredit homeopathic medicine, the CBC Marketplace show was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company sponsored skeptics. Where homeopathy becomes a popular choice there is always a unscrupulous attempt to get rid of it.

Thumbs down for such shoddy practices of Marketplace on our national tv.

Here is a link to the Official Homeopathy Resource well written coverage of this episode:

http://homeopathyresource.wordpress.com/2011/01/
06/shocked-canadian-homeopaths-ask-is-the-cbc-
marketplace-show-infiltrated-by-pharmaceutical-company-
skeptics/