Probably five to ten years for manslaughter.

I want to say that most people will tolerate the sheer nonsense of homeopathy for hypochondriacs with minor, self-limiting complaints. I want to say that in my opinion, anyone so callous or so deluded as to offer sugar pills and water to desperately ill people desrves a place in hell between child molestors and sex trafficers.

That seems a little strong, so I’ll simply say that just because homeopathy enjoys popularity in India, doesn’t mean it works. Homeopathy has no place in treating anything more serious than stress.

The patients in Botswana have no knowledge about homeopathy, and are very rarely interested in learning more. All they need to know is that the homeopaths have helped a neighbour or a relative and, personal recommendation being the way of life in Africa, they come full of confidence that they’ll be healed. For the people visiting the clinic, we are “doctors”. A bit weird for doctors - no white coats, no nurses, the clinic is sometimes a bit of shade and a couple of plastic chairs, and the pills are small and few - but they seem to trust us more than the doctors in the hospital, who never seem to have time to listen.

My guess is that the homeopaths did nothing to dispell their customers/victims myths.

Their self-delusion and usual disparagement of real medicine is evident in the newsletter,

This complexity is overwhelming for allopaths, but not for homeopaths. In fact, the clinical results that we achieve in the clinics here are nothing short of miraculous.

They do acknowledge that “beyond a certain point only ARV’s can stop the HIV virus. If the treatment starts even later all one can offer the patient is a smoother transition into the other world.” But just who is telling their victims that it is now time to stop playing with sugar pills and seel real medical help?

Scary beyond belief.