Understatement and media gullibility

I just saw an article on the BBC website about an upcoming "conference" about homeopathic treatments of HIV. For those of you who don't know, "homeopathic medicine" is a particularly insidious pseudo-medical bunk factory that eats up resources, diverts attention from real medicine, and even kills people. If you don't believe me, just read this.

Given the absurdity of this "field", it is outrageous how credulous the media reports about it are. The article I read gives the following quote without any qualification:

BBC health correspondent, Jane Dreaper explained: "The principle behind homeopathy is that an ailment can be cured by small quantities of substances that produce the same symptoms but some doctors say it's ineffective."

"Some" doctors? How about, almost all doctors, and certainly every competent doctor that is informed about the issue. The way the media just credulously presents "both sides" of non-issues like this is not just absurd, it's dangerous.

Update: More fun stuff - check this article out to see how the Society of Homeopaths responds to criticism of their quackery. Oh, I hope they sue me too!