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[[Homeopathy]] is fairly common in some countries while being uncommon in others. In some countries, there are no specific legal regulations concerning the use of homeopathy, while in others, licenses or degrees in conventional medicine from accredited universities are required.

Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition.<ref name=Tuomela/><ref name=Smith2012/><ref name=Baran2014/><ref name=Ladyman/> Outside of the [[alternative medicine]] community, scientists have long considered homeopathy a sham<ref name="aaci">{{Cite journal |last1=Caulfield |first1=Timothy |last2=Rachul |first2=Christen |year=2011 |title=Supported by science?: What Canadian naturopaths advertise to the public |journal=Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology |volume=7 |pages=14 |doi=10.1186/1710-1492-7-14 |pmc=3182944 |pmid=21920039 |quote=Within the non-CAM scientific community, homeopathy has long been viewed as a sham}}</ref> or a [[pseudoscience]],<ref name="Tuomela">{{Cite book |last=Tuomela, R |title=Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning |publisher=Springer |year=1987 |isbn=978-94-010-8181-8 |veditors=Pitt JC, Marcello P |series=Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science |volume=98 |pages=83–101 |chapter=Chapter 4: Science, Protoscience, and Pseudoscience |doi=10.1007/978-94-009-3779-6_4 |author-link=Raimo Tuomela}}</ref><ref name="Smith2012">{{Cite journal |last=Smith K |year=2012 |title=Homeopathy is Unscientific and Unethical |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1035885 |journal=Bioethics |volume=26 |issue=9 |pages=508–512 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01956.x|s2cid=143067523 }}</ref><ref name=Baran2014/><ref name="Ladyman">{{Cite book |last=Ladyman J |title=Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-226-05196-3 |veditors=Pigliucci M, Boudry M |pages=48–49 |chapter=Chapter 3: Towards a Demarcation of Science from Pseudoscience |quote=Yet homeopathy is a paradigmatic example of pseudoscience. It is neither simply bad science nor science fraud, but rather profoundly departs from scientific method and theories while being described as scientific by some of its adherents (often sincerely).}}</ref> and the mainstream medical community regards it as [[quackery]].<ref name="Baran2014">{{Cite book |title=Chapter 2: Science, Pseudoscience, and Not Science: How Do They Differ? |vauthors=Baran GR, Kiana MF, Samuel SP |work=Healthcare and Biomedical Technology in the 21st Century |publisher=Springer |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4614-8540-7 |pages=19–57 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-8541-4_2 |quote=within the traditional medical community it is considered to be quackery}}</ref>

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