Members of the Section of Medical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) voted unanimously on November 9, 2015, to support an earlier proposal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences about homeopathy. The Swedish statement requested that homeopathic remedies should go through the same efficacy trials that mainstream drugs do.
The Hungarian statement refers to various recent scientific statements, for example, the study of the Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council that analyzed 175 publications and concluded that there was no reasonable scientific proof for the efficacy of homeopathy for any health conditions. The HAS also refers to the European Academies Science Advisory Council that is allegedly considering an investigation among the academies of the U.N. countries about this topic. The statement points out that another Hungarian scientific body (Health Science Committee, Egészségügyi Tudományos Tanács) had made a similar statement in 1991 and opposed using and registering those drugs whose efficacy had not been proved and that had not gone through adequate research procedures.