Addendum #1 to CVMA Proposed AVMA Resolution: “Homeopathy has been identified as an ineffective practice and its use is discouraged.” White Paper: The Case Against Homeopathy

While habit, tradition, uncontrolled clinical experience, and anecdotes may appear to support the value of a given therapy, these sources of information are deeply unreliable. They inevitably conform to our pre-existing biases, and they can be found to support every possible practice, thus never allowing us to reject any therapy as ineffective. The dramatic and undeniable success of scientific medicine has come from relying on scientific evidence to compensate for our biases and identify which practices are effective and which are not.