Editing Homeopathy (section)

=== Revival in the 20th century ===
According to academics {{Interlanguage link|Paul U. Unschuld|lt=|de||WD=}} and [[Edzard Ernst]], the [[Nazi]] regime in Germany was fond of homeopathy, and spent large sums of money on researching its mechanisms, but without gaining a positive result.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ernst|first=Edzard|title=Standing up for the truth about homeopathy and Nazi medicine|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/standing-up-for-the-truth-about-homeopathy-and-nazi-medicine-1.2138835|access-date=2020-10-26|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> Unschuld also states that homeopathy never subsequently took root in the [[United States]], but remained more deeply established in European thinking.<ref name="Unschuld2009">{{cite book|author=Paul Ulrich Unschuld|title=What Is Medicine?: Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPMTlS1pzEUC&pg=PA171|access-date=September 7, 2013|date=August 9, 2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-94470-1|page=171}}</ref> In the United States, the ''[[Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act]]'' of 1938 (sponsored by [[Royal S. Copeland|Royal Copeland]], a [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[New York (state)|New York]] and homeopathic physician) recognized homeopathic preparations as drugs. In the 1950s, there were only 75 solely homeopathic practitioners in the U.S.<ref>
{{cite news
 |title       =Homeopathic Hassle
 |url         =http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,891760,00.html
 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081214115339/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,891760,00.html
 |archive-date =December 14, 2008
 |magazine   =[[Time (magazine)|Time]]
 |date        =August 20, 1956
}}</ref> By the mid to late 1970s, homeopathy made a significant comeback and the sales of some homeopathic companies increased tenfold.<ref name="rader">
{{cite news
 |date        =March 1, 1985
 |publisher   =FDA Consumer Magazine
 |author      =Rader WM
 |url         =http://www.homeowatch.org/history/fdac1.html
 |title       =Riding the coattails of homeopathy's revival
}}</ref>

Some homeopaths credit the revival to Greek homeopath [[George Vithoulkas]], who conducted a "great deal of research to update the scenarios and refine the theories and practice of homeopathy" in the 1970s,<ref name="pmid12614092">{{Cite journal |volume=138 |issue=5 |pages=393–99 |last=Jonas |first=WB |author2=TJ Kaptchuk |author3=K Linde |title=A critical overview of homeopathy |journal=Annals of Internal Medicine |year=2003 |doi=10.7326/0003-4819-138-5-200303040-00009|pmid=12614092 |s2cid=22787732 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Andrew |last=Lockie |title=Encyclopedia of Homeopathy |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediahome00lock_433 |url-access=limited |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=2000 |location=New York |edition=1st |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediahome00lock_433/page/n20 19] |isbn=978-0-7566-1871-1 }}</ref> but Ernst and [[Simon Singh]] consider it to be linked to the rise of the [[New Age movement]].<ref name="isbn0-393-06661-4" /> [[Bruce Hood (psychologist)|Bruce Hood]] has argued that the increased popularity of homeopathy in recent times may be due to the comparatively long consultations practitioners are willing to give their patients, and to a [[appeal to nature|preference for "natural" products]], which people think are the basis of homeopathic preparations.<ref name="Hood2009">{{cite book|author=Bruce M. Hood|title=SuperSense|url=https://archive.org/details/supersensewhyweb00hood|url-access=registration|access-date=September 7, 2013|date=April 7, 2009|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-186793-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/supersensewhyweb00hood/page/157 157]}}</ref>

Towards the end of the century opposition to homeopathy began to increase again; with [[William T. Jarvis]], the President of the [[National Council Against Health Fraud]], saying that "Homeopathy is a fraud perpetrated on the public with the government's blessing, thanks to the abuse of political power of Sen. Royal S. Copeland."<ref>{{cite web|author=William T. Jarvis|author-link=William T. Jarvis|title=Response to Isadora Stehlin "Homeopathy: real medicine or empty promises?" (originally published in ''FDA Consumer'' April 1997)|date=December 15, 2001|url=http://www.homeowatch.org/articles/fdac2.html}}</ref>