The RAS said that their memorandum does not prohibit homeopathy. This is just an "information document" that no one is obliged to consider "

The recognition of homeopathy for a pseudoscience, published in the memorandum of the RAS Commission , will not entail a ban on this method of treatment, officially recognized in Russia since 1995, but will help to inform the population about the low efficiency of its results.

Such an opinion was expressed by TASS to the candidate of biological sciences and a member of the RAS Commission to combat the pseudoscience Alexander Panchin .

"The task of the memorandum is to, firstly, to inform the society about what is happening. No one prohibits homeopathy, the commission is not a punitive body that will now take the homeopathic tablets. But to warn the population that there is such a form of unscrupulous approaches to treatment, and provide the opportunity for journalists and officials to refer to this memorandum when they will be Trying to make decisions or inform the audience, ”Pankchin emphasized.

Another member of the RAS Commission to Combat the Pseudoscience, Alexander Sergeyev , is more categorical in his judgments and assures that homeopathy deprives part of the population of medical care.

“In a prosperous society, one can still endure ineffective methods of treatment. They give the opportunity to put a box that they took care of their health. But in societies not so rich the development of homeopathy actually deprives a significant part of the population of medical care, replacing it with ritual events,” says Sergeyev.

"We were obliged to remind the society of the inefficiency of homeopathy, its incompatibility with science and that the responsible state does not have the right to promote its spread. Many officials in specialized departments are well aware that homeopathy is a dummy, but they cannot show the initiative to counteract it," he said.

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the former Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Vladimir Starodubov , commenting on the decision of the commission to combat pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Interfax that homeopathy should be studied rather than banned. “The biggest question is that homeopathy does not fit into the framework of classical medicine. Therefore, scientists who are engaged in this and expressed their doubt,” says vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In his opinion, homeopathy can not be radically prohibited - a further study of the methods and principles of this direction is required. “It is impossible to prohibit this issue at the same time. It is necessary to study this issue and eventually come to some consolidated opinion. I am not a supporter of homeopathy, but not a supporter of a radical decision on homeopathy,” Starodubov said, adding that the financial interests of pharmacological companies that produce homeopathic drugs play a significant role in the study of homeopathy and its future.

“Including, of course, there is a financial issue. I don’t know the volume of this market, I can’t say, but these are billions of rubles. Therefore, there are interested parties,” the academician said.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a well -known neurophysiologist, head of the Department of Nerkardic Methods of Treatment and Clinical Physiology of the First Moscow State Medical University named after Sechenov, Vadim Zilov believes that the commission hurried with his unambiguous conclusion, and homeopathy has the right to exist.

“My Academic colleagues hastened a little with such a conclusion. Still, it was necessary to collect medical specialists and discuss all the pros and cons of this method in a calm environment. There are too many emotions around this issue about the use of homeopathy, and, of course, you need to put all the points over“ and, ”Zilov told Interfax. According to him, the use of homeopathy as a method can be effective, and scientific research exists, and scientific research exists, and scientific research exists, Which confirms this, by the way, is the scientific evidence of the use of therapeutic mechanisms of homeopathic drugs, and it is not clear why it is said that nothing is known at all, ”the scientist said, noting that not all doctors, and many doctors who directly use homeopathies in the treatment, were not asked.

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Tatyana Yakovleva recalled that homeopathy is officially recognized, including the World Health Organization (WHO). "We will not come to us at the Ministry of Health (the Memorandum of the Russian Academy of Sciences) if it is received, we will naturally study it. But homeopathy is officially recognized as the World Health Organization, including the Ministry of Health of Russia, homeopathy is also recognized ... If the reception is conducted by a specialist who does not know the homeopathy, who did not go through specialization and training, then this Falseur, ”said Yakovleva.

The chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the vice president of the National Medical Chamber Natalya Aksenova is convinced that the issue of the future of homeopathy as a medical method must be discussed with the professional medical and patient community. “For decades, a large number of patients turned to this type of assistance and continue to turn. In our country, the number of homeopathic doctors is more than 10 thousand. Given this, I believe that the discussion and the already consolidated opinion of representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Patient and Medical Communities will put an end to this issue,” TASS Aksenova told the agency.

The memorandum "On the pseudoscience of homeopathy" was prepared on a voluntary basis. The initiative to create it came from the commission to combat pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research. At the same time, Panchin emphasized that the memorandum should be considered only as an information document. “No one is obliged to consider a memorandum,” the scientist noted.

This is the second memorandum prepared by the commission. The first was dedicated to dermatoglyphics - the prediction of the development of certain diseases, as well as tendencies to certain professions based on fingerprints.

The Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the fight against pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research on February 6 published the memorandum "On the pseudoscience of homeopathy", which states that treatment with ultra -small doses of various substances used in homeopathy has no scientific reason. This conclusion is based on an analysis of publications in scientific publications, reports on clinical research, their generalizations and systematic reviews. The commission concluded that the use of homeopathy in medicine "contradicts the main goals of domestic health care and should meet organized state opposition."