If #Brexit supporters wanted to raise an actual valid criticism of European Union, instead of the worn and essentially false “banana curvature” stories, there’s a perfect example in Directive 2001/83/EC. It’s a important directive on medical efficacy evidencing standards that, foundational to all modern medicine. And yet, it’s contaminated by 100% pseudo-scientific nonsense, lobbied by a few influential manufacturers from France and Germany:

(21) Having regard to the particular characteristics of these homeopathic medicinal products, such as the very low level of active principles they contain and the difficulty of applying to them the conventional statistical methods relating to clinical trials, it is desirable to provide a special, simplified registration procedure for those homeopathic medicinal products which are placed on the market without therapeutic indications in a pharmaceutical form and dosage which do not present a risk for the patient.

Read: because medical efficacy of pure water and sugar sold as “homeopathic remedies” is impossible to demonstrate, we just allow it without any evidence.

The next section makes a nod to the German companies who are into #antroposophy business, a similar sectarian movement:

(22) The anthroposophic medicinal products described in an official pharmacopoeia and prepared by a homeopathic method are to be treated, as regards registration and marketing authorization, in the same way as homeopathic medicinal products.

Of course, Brexit supporters did not raise this argument as part of their criticism of EU. Same goes for anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists believing EU is at the mercy of omnipotent lobby groups who make people wear cough masks in the breaks between conducting black masses under Satan’s and Bill Gates’ portraits.

Why? Because #homeopathy is also an important pseudo-scientific sector of business in the UK and in the “organic”, “natural” and the whole pseudo-scientific market and you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Fortunately, NHS kicked homeopaths from the medicine quite a while ago.