Jeremy Sherr, Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths, wants to cure AIDS and Malaria with homeopathy

Jeremy Sherr is a Fellow of the Society of Homeopaths (FSHom) (SoH), founder and principal of the renowned Dynamis School and a software entrepreneur. He is the author of several respected homeopathic tomes and acquired legendary status in the homeopathic community with his provings of Hydrogen, Plutonium and Chocolate amongst others. His admirers include Louis Klein, John Melnychuk and the SoH who have accorded him the honour of being a Fellow as well as promoting his seminars. He also is in possession of a Ph.D. from Medicina Alternativa, founded by Lord Pandit Raja Guru Maha-Atma Who qualified Chinese Master Acupuncturist Professor Doctor Sir Holy Tibetan Lama Shaman Healer Anton Jayasuriya, a member of the North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH) and an honorary professor of Yunan Medical College, Kunming, China. From his own website:

Jeremy is acknowledged by the homœopathic community as a brilliant and creative thinker who is well grounded in the philosophy and writings of Hahnemann.

Jeremy is an international homeopath maintaining busy practices in Malvern, New York and Tel Aviv as well as running the Dynamis Certificate in homeopathy (~£1700 for five meetings). In fact he is so important he even has his own Wikipedia entry.

Jeremy also believes that homeopathy can be used to treat or cure AIDS and malaria and encourages such treatments.

Jeremy has very kindly uploaded almost every article he has written and interview he has given on his website. When not prescribing salmon remedies for annoying neighbours with leaky taps, Jeremy likes to tackle the important issues of the day such as September 11th, 2001:

When the itch of division is ignored or suppressed, it grows into a multi headed monster that can blow the world apart. When the valve of September the 11th blew, we were shown an extreme version of the pathology we live in, as well as having a glimpse of what cure could bring. For a short time our alienation and isolation fused into love, unity and respect. The relief that was achieved violently and temporarily can be achieved gently and permanently. Maybe it is beyond our powers to prescribe a homeopathic remedy for the whole world at once. However, if we can prescribe for one patient unto the innermost degree, resting on an understanding of the larger totality, we may touch the roots of our collective itch. If we can heal the planet fully, each individual will be cured. If we can heal any one individual completely, based on a broader understanding of pathology, we may be able to cure the world.

and the 50th aniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930. In 1932, as Hitler rose to power the first neutron was identified. The Syphilitic Miasm had now become full to the brim and was ready to explode. Viruses were first crystallised in 1935. Late in 1938, just as the war was about to begin, nuclear fission was achieved - a Uranium atom was split. Isotopes of plutonium were first prepared at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1941. In 1942, with the war going full blast, the first nuclear chain reaction was produced. On the 6th of August, 1945, Hiroshima was demolished by an Atomic Bomb. One hundred and thirty thousand people were reported killed, injured, or missing. Three days later a Plutonium Bomb flattened Nagasaki. The world had passed through the barrier of the 6th Syphilitic period and into the 7th radioactive and cancerous era.

However, Jeremy doesn’t confine himself to his unique analysis of history and current affairs he also takes an active interest in much more serious issues such as healthcare in the developing world. On AIDS and malaria Jeremy has this to say:

I can show fantastic AIDS cases on video, where you clearly see people getting better and coming off their drugs

Jeremy would like to carry out a trial on homeopathy for AIDS patients:

it would involve treating three to five hundred AIDS patients over a couple of years. The aim is twofold; one, to treat individually and show the efficacy of homoeopathy for these patients and two, to look for a genus epidemicus for AIDS, providing it is an epidemic. Epidemics have certain characteristics and AIDS is one foot in and one foot out. I do not want to hear what this or that homoeopath gave an AIDS patient; I just want to collect the symptoms for myself, as Hahnemann said we should do with epidemics, and see.

Now doing experiments on terminally ill patients is an area fraught with ethical difficulties and one would hope that Jeremy would take this seriously. On the subject of the ethics of such a trial Jeremy says this:

You have to find willing partners and get a protocol through an ethics committee, and you need to talk their language. I hope it will work but if not, I will just go and do it on a small scale myself - I am determined to do that.

Nice attitude. If you don’t let me do what I want I will go ahead and do it anyway.

Jeremy also believes that homoepathy can cure malaria:

I went to Tanzania as I have a friend there, Sigsbert Rwegasira; a homoeopath and a lovely guy. He also has a hundred percent success in treating malaria, which is still the biggest killer the world has ever known. The allopaths are poisoning people with pharmaceuticals such as Lariam, which is causing absolute devastation. He has treated five thousand AIDS patients. I went for a week and treated twenty AIDS cases and collected all the symptoms, and we are getting really good results.

Now it is tempting to dismiss these statements as the inconsequential musings of a harmless crank. Unfortunately not only do Jeremy and his friend, Sigsbert Rwegasira, believe in this but they act on it too. In August of this year Jeremy raised thousands of dollars for a clinic in Tanzania that will treat malaria using homeopathy. Not only that, Sigsbert Rwegasira, is actually using and promoting a homeopathic AIDS drug on his patients in Dar es Salaam.

People are quick to dismiss homeopathy as a harmless pursuit practiced by kindly people in market towns for the hypochondriac middle classes of Britain. Organisations representing homeopaths, such as the SoH, make claims of gentle healing and lobby for the inclusion of homeopathy on the NHS. Homeopathy is not gentle, it does not heal. It promotes an insidious ignorance that kills. Senior homeopaths promote bizarre theories and support quack doctors in the developing world who will cause the premature death of their patients by treating diseases such as AIDS and malaria with nothing more than water. Rather than condemn the individuals who do this, the SoH advertises their courses, invites them to speak at seminars and awards them honorary titles. The SoH told the House of Lords that:

The Society of Homeopaths noted that its members were “subject to a rigorous Code of Ethics” and that it was also “a key player in the Council of Organisations Registering Homeopaths … working to establish a single register for the profession” which would allow patients and healthcare workers “to be sure of the professional standards, competency and accountability of the homeopaths they employ

This is manifestly untrue. The regulation of homeopathy is a shambles and this shambles is costing lives in Africa. The support for homeopathy in the House of Commons is giving respectability to a deluded profession, this is costing lives in Africa.

We will continue to have blood on our hands unless we challenge the respectability of homeopathy. It is dangerous. It kills.