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IS HOMEOPATHY REALLY ‘MORALLY AND ETHICALLY UNACCEPTABLE’? A CRITIQUE OF PURE SCIENTISM
Author(s) -
MILGROM LIONEL,
CHATFIELD KATE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01948.x
Subject(s) - scientism , homeopathy , presumption , epistemology , philosophy , bioethics , rest (music) , environmental ethics , psychology , law , alternative medicine , medicine , political science , pathology , cardiology
In this short response we show that Kevin Smith's moral and ethical rejections of homeopathy 1 are fallacious and rest on questionable epistemology. Further, we suggest Smith's presumption of a utilitarian stance is an example of scientism encroaching into medicine.