The Queen’s chemist has been condemned as ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ for claiming homeopathic remedies can provide a ‘complete alternative to vaccination’. It now faces calls for its royal warrants – meaning it has supplied products to the two royal households for at five years – to be withdrawn. Separately, Ainsworths also sells substances online which other homeopaths say provide ‘natural immunity’ against infectious diseases including measles. Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, said its royal warrants should be withdrawn ‘as a matter of urgency’. It is hard to think of any UK enterprise for which royal warrants are less justified.

Source: Daily Mail October 28, 2019 22:01 UTC