I don't know about reasons, but I don't think it's a "the people are stupid" thing. My private insurance covers homeopathy, the public ones do not. I asked them

I don't know about reasons, but I don't think it's a "the people are stupid" thing. My private insurance covers homeopathy, the public ones do not. I asked them to just drop that and save me 10 bucks, but they wouldn't and said they don't claim it works, but many of their members do like it, and those were mostly civil servants, lawyers, journalists etc. A friend of mine in medicine had a different perspective on it, his stance is basically that as long as they redirect the actual cases to the actual doctors, homeopathy is fine. It keeps the people who really just want somebody to talk to out of the doctor's offices and they will find help there, because the real doctor doesn't have time to do psycho-therapy light with them. At least from personal experience (my mother believes in it as well), it works. She knows very well what problems call for a doctor and what are okay to try homeopathy on.