Pushback CANCELS New Homeopathy Program at Ontario's Georgian College

here, a new homeopathic degree that's getting quite justifiably criticized:

001. at nationalpost.com, there's the Sharon Kirkey article "A Pseudo-Science’: Outrage After Ontario Government Funds College Program in Homeopathy" (2018-02-07) which states:

"outrage is mounting over a publicly funded Ontario college’s plan to launch a diploma program in homeopathy [...] critics say Georgian College in Barrie has created a three-year course that has no grounding in science, is based on 'magical thinking' and could ultimately harm the public by giving the field an air of official credibility [...] 'homeopathy is a pseudo-science and this alone should be sufficient to reject the inclusion of such a program at a publicly funded institution,' Barrie physician Chris Giorshev wrote in a letter to Ontario’s minister of advanced education and skills development, Deb Matthews, as well as the community college’s board and president [...] he said it’s unethical for an academic institution to teach students a program based on scientifically implausible principles and worries the public could ultimately be harmed by leading people to assume homeopathy is a valid form of medicine [...] 'it's the air guitar of medicine,' pharmacist Scott Gavura wrote on his 'Science-Based Medicine' blog [post]. Homeopathy 'goes through the motions of health care, and looks a bit like medicine, but actually accomplishes nothing at all' [...]";

hear, hear.

002. at Radio Canada International, rcinet.ca, there's the  Marc Montgomery article "Scientific Anger Over College Degree in Homeopathy" (2018-02-08) which states:

"a number of medical and scientific personnel are expressing their shock at an Ontario Community College. Starting this fall, Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, will offer a diploma in homeopathy, a practice the critics says is mere quackery [...and] pseudo-science [...] in a 1998 editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs [...] wrote in [...] 'there is no alternative medicine. There is only scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine supported by solid data, or unproven medicine, for which scientific evidence is lacking' [...]";

hear, hear.

003. at timminstoday.com, there's the Sue Sgambati article "Ontario College Defends Homeopathy Program Amid Criticism Public Funds Being Used to Teach 'Quackery'" (2018-02-09) which states:

"a Barrie physician is calling Georgian College's plan to launch a three-year diploma course on homeopathy this fall 'unethical.' Dr.  Chris Giorshev [...who] cites over 18,000 studies done on the practice showing how it 'doesn't work for anything' [...] sent a letter to provincial Ministers Matthews, Hunter, the Board of directors of Georgian College and college CEO and President MaryLynn West-Moynes. Giorshev, who treats both chronic pain and addictions patients in his practice, wrote that homeopathy is a 'pseudo-science' based on 'magical thinking [...with] no basis in reality [...and] quackery [...]  I think they have to have the ethical responsibility to provide health care programs that are based on science.  We can't just do a witchcraft program because it's popular' [...]";

hear, hear.

004. by the way, Georgian's document "Program Outline" [2018-02-09 saved] states:

"students gain in-depth theoretical knowledge about the art and science of homeopathic medicine [...]";

and that science label is so false that it's fraudulent and incompetent, considering the source and the information / knowledge that's available these days.

005. the Georgian program's cancellation has been announced by:

005.a. barrie.ctvnews.ca reports in "Georgian College Cancels Homeopathy Program" (2018-02-09):

"Georgian College has decided to cancel the Homeopathy Program following some public opposition [...]";

of course, this is just a small sign of a larger problem at GC.  It also has an acupuncture program.

006. what this says about naturopathy, since homeopathy is a part of North American ND programs that label such falsely as science and pose such falsely as efficacious [it's quite wrongly labeled "clinical science" on their licensure exam, NPLEX]:

well, that there be some serious:

unethicality, pseudoscience, magical thinking, quackery, witchcraft, and knowledge incompetence

within naturopathy by definition.  Unreckoned...