Living Well Naturally Nov. 2014 | Page 32

FAMILY HEALTH Homeopathy & Vaccination consciousness. My purpose for writing this article is very simple, it is only to make you aware of a body of research about disease prevention that you probably know nothing about. In every media report about the vaccine question not once has this body of research been referenced. This research should provide an exciting platform for further study by medical professionals but unfortunately it does not. Recently there has been a resurgence of the vaccine debate. The media has its own proclivity to present any alternative method as unproven, or unscientific. It came to the attention of a colleague of mine who was recently visited under false pretenses by an “investigative journalist” from CBC Marketplace. He was later contacted with a request for an interview to explain his position on vaccination and the homeopathic perspective. This subterfuge was completely unnecessary because most of the information supporting the homeopathic method is readily available. These are real studies done on a large scale by qualified researchers. My colleague declined to be interviewed based upon the grounds that this correspondent had a preconceived bias and CBC's history of incredibly unobjective, poorly researched pieces where it concerns homeopathy. The most recent article I read was in TorontoLife entitled, “The Vaccine Truthers: why parents shun life-saving shots”, August 27, 2014. The title already tells you where this article is going. The use of homoeopathics in the treatment [