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CMV: I am convinced that certified doctors who prescribe homeopathic (alleged) medicine should have their job title revoked and be legally punished for scamming gullible people out of their money and probably their health.

Homeopathy is a pseudo science dating back to the time bacteria hadn't been discovered. There is not a single shred of evidence homeopathy works, except for the placebo effect.

Yet, doctors are allowed to claim that homeopathic remedies can cure a whole plethora of, if not all diseases and ailments. People who have serious problems often will believe anything anyone tells them in order to make their medical issues go away. A fortiori, this applies to people visiting certified doctors. The job of a doctor is essentially to be trustworthy.

I believe doctors have the moral and legal obligation to tell people homeopathy does not work, or at least has never in history been proven to work. If they don't do so, and cash in on prescribing horribly expensive bottles of water, they go against anything the medical profession stands for, in my view.

Does anyone have a radically different view here? If so, I would very much appreciate to hear it.
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Doctors don't need to prescribe anything to recommend it, and it will often have the same exact effects of influencing someone to purchase it.  So passing a law banning people from prescribing something won't actually take care of the problem with doctors who treat alternative medicine as medicine.  (How someone could actually get though medschool and take chemistry yet still believe in homeopathy baffles the mind though.)

You wouldn't really be able to just specifically target homeopathics because it would just lead other forms of alternative medicines to fill the gap.  Everything from chiropracty, to reiki and crystal therapy.   If you ban alternative medicine in general you actually ban some valid products.  For example Lovastatin is a heart disease and cholesterol drug that costs about 80-100$ a bottle.  The drug itself is isolated from red rice yeast and so for people who can't afford a preventative medication like that, a doctor will occasionally prescribe red rice yeast as an herbal supplement.  Yes it's an alternative treatment without FDA approval, but the active agents and the effects are constant. 

In effect any law you could pass towards this end would not only fail to solve the problem it would also likely effect some legitimate treatment options.