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Ontario’s publicly funded Georgian College, in Barrie, north of Toronto, has nixed its homeopathy diploma program — before the program’s launch date.

The three-year course, which was due to be offered beginning next fall, was quashed one day after National Post health reporter Sharon Kirkey published a scathing report on the new program and a treatment philosophy that doctors, including the chair of the Ontario Medical Association’s chronic pain section — and at least 12 other international organizations — have described as “junk science.”

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The college’s board of governors released a statement Friday afternoon explaining its decision.

“In light of the recent response from our local community and beyond and in consideration of our students, Georgian College has made the decision to cancel the homeopathy program.”