The dangers of a closed mind

It seems that a university education offers no protection against a closed mind.

“Homeopathy is witchcraft” says the deputy chairman of the BMA’s junior doctors committee according to the article in The Telegraph.

Now my knowledge of homeopathy is basic at best but I think that not only should people be able to make up their own minds as to its efficacy but they should have other therapies available to them if they wish to make use of them in addition to using the NHS.
However I don’t think that complementary therapies should be funded by the NHS as I’ve always had the suspicion that the two approaches are fundamentally incompatible.
The worrying trend I see in the BMA Junior Doctors Committee’s decision is that there appears to be a new breed of young doctors with God complexes who feel that they know everything already and are unwilling to learn from anything unless there’s scientific proof attached. This naive approach probably rules out many existing medical practices. I wonder if any of them watched the documentary “Mental A History of the Madhouse” which documents the closure of the mental hospitals and the barbaric treatments dished out to those too vulnerable to be able to stand up for themselves.
At least homeopathy is not responsible for carrying out 17000 lobotomies in the UK alone never mind world wide.
Homeopathy was born out of Samuel Hahnemann’s disgust with the existing medical practices.

“For several centuries, a whole range of causes, which I could not begin to enumerate, have led to the downgrading of that divine science, clinical medicine, to the level of a wretched, money-grubbing exercise in the whitewashing of symptoms and a demeaning traffic in prescriptions, in fact, God forgive us, to a more mechanical trade in which Hippocrates is lost to sight amidst a rabble of charlatans.” quote from Creighton University Medical School

When I go to see my GP next I hope and pray I see an open minded person who has my wellbeing at heart and advises me to the best of his or her ability and not one of these young doctors who seem to be more interested in scientific dogma than healing.