In a recent Editorial published in this journal, Garattini and Mannucci wondered if
outpatient homeopathy clinics and commercially available homeopathic products are
yet deceiving people [
[1]
]. They attempted a possible explanation of the increasing appeal of homeopathy upon
individuals and concluded that it might take advantage from the same sociological
and anthropological credulity fostering many oddities such as esotericism and astrology
[
[1]
]. Actually, the very recent tragic new of the child from Cagli (Pesaro-Urbino), who
died for an encephalitis caused by the inflammatory exacerbation of a bilateral otitis
media because treated with homeopathic remedies instead of antibiotics, is warning
us of a worrisome cultural attitude in our country, an attitude that emerged also
in the very recent outcry against mandatory vaccination in Italy.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 16, 2017
Accepted:
June 12,
2017
Received in revised form:
June 5,
2017
Received:
May 30,
2017
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