Germany’s health minister wants to abolish funding of homeopathic treatments by the country’s statutory health insurance system. “Homeopathy makes no sense as a health insurance benefit,” wrote Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on X, formerly Twitter. “The foundation of our policies must be scientific evidence.” “We also cannot fight climate change with dowsing rods,” he quipped. Homeopathic medicines are usually based on plant, mineral and animal substances that are massively diluted and packaged in the forms pills, creams, gels and tablets. The scientific consensus is that homeopathic treatmen…