PATIENTS MAY FAIL TO SEEK EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE.

be used as alternatives to vaccines against measles, mumps, polio and other childhood diseases.

Three years ago, Ontario became the first province in the country to regulate the practice of homeopathy to widespread criticism the government was legitimizing “quackery.”

In a statement to the Post, Georgian College officials said its new diploma program, due to launch at its Barrie campus in the fall, “will provide students with the theoretical, practical and clinical skills necessary to graduate with the competencies required to successfully meet the entry to practice requirements of the regulator body,” the College of Homeopaths of Ontario. board of governors of each college is responsible for approving programs of instruction,” said Tanya Blazina, of the ministry of advanced education.

Founded in 1796 by German doctor Samuel Hahneman, homeopathy is based on the philosophy “like cures like,” the theory that a substance that causes symptoms in a healthy person will cure those symptoms in a sick person.

The “active” agent is placed in water and ultradiluted; the more diluted, the higher its potency, the theory holds. But the final product becomes so “ridiculously diluted” it doesn’t contain a single molecule of the original substance in the final product, argues Joe