It's hardly surprising to find various MPs [edmi.parliament.uk] and GPs in favour of woo-soaked nonsense such as homeopathy. Neither bunch is made up of particularly intelligent or honest people - more those with ambition, a certain amount of initial privilege and willingness to con others for a living (lying to the electorate and to patients etc). MPs are almost entirely ignorant of science (eg typically not even knowing the difference between science and technology) and GPs (and other medics) are disgracefully ignorant of science too (having mis-learned by rote memorisation most of what they "know"). They like to pretend to know by authority and they can easily be clueless about their cluelessness.

What's interesting, given other examples of them arrogantly ignoring the scientific evidence and shooting the messengers of it, is for any MPs at all [guardian.co.uk] to be backing the current [timesonline.co.uk] call to weed out the cranks and quacks who are profiting [ft.com] from the con-trick of homeopathy (under the false legitimacy of NHS inclusion [news.scotsman.com] and dodgy regulation). Some of the people involved in conning the public don't even have the feeble excuse of being self-delusional though. Eg the Boots bod who doesn't believe homeopathy works but is happy to make money off the mugs who want to buy it - stealing from the desperately stupid [news.bbc.co.uk].