It’s not ‘loopy’ to explore homeopathy
SIR – In his article about Prince Charles’s role in relation to a disestablished Church of England (Feature, January 4), Fr Lucie-Smith attacks the Prince of Wales’s intellectual competence on the basis of his belief in homeopathy. That is very unfair, because healing is too complex a matter for materialistic methods alone. Such methods would only be truly adequate if a human being was a purely material entity.
Fr Lucie-Smith sounds very sure that homeopathy does not work, but we do not know whether he has tested it himself, or if he is just repeating things said about it by people who do not like it. Besides, Prince Charles is not the only member of the Royal Family to use homeopathy, as the Queen also uses it. Is she too “out of touch”, and her ideas also “frankly loopy”?
