After six months of work, the Senate commission of inquiry on the influence of sectarian movements in the field of health delivered its report this Wednesday, April 10.
The conclusions of the report are not reassuring and the commission of inquiry notes a clear increase in sectarian aberrations in the field of health. And it is not the recent health scandals like that of the pill or the Pick that will help reverse the trend …
To document their report as well as possible, the members of the commission scoured the salons dedicated to well-being and interviewed health professionals, experts, representatives of health authorities and victims of charlatanism. They concluded that “certain therapeutic drifts due to commercial practices, close to charlatanry, exploit the fears and expectations of the population in terms of health and well-being and can insidiously guide their victims towards therapeutic practices which are often devoid of scientifically based, thus compromising their chances of recovery “.
Among the disciplines implicated, we can cite fasciatherapy (an esoteric practice inspired byosteopathy and the teachings of Ram Chandra, founder of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission sect) who nevertheless benefited from a clinical trial conducted at the West Angers Cancer Institute to demonstrate its impact on quality improvement life expectancy of women with breast cancer.
The commission therefore issued 41 proposals to protect citizens, including a ban on the use of the title of Doctor for doctors, dentists and pharmacists removed from their Order (they could still keep this title if he used it outside of any legal framework). medical activity) as well as a more rigorous evaluation of university diplomas (DU) given in French universities and private training organizations.