…literally nothing apart from water, last time I checked all that cures is dehydration.
Which is exactly why I am supporting a fantastic new campaign to raise awareness of the reality of homeopathy. They are gathering signatures for a open letter to Boots to ask them to remove homeopathic remedies from their shelves.
Homeopathy doesn’t work, it is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine that claims that the more you dilute something the more potent it becomes. Think about that for a second, its fucking stupid. I can only assume this madness hasn’t been generally accepted as just that because of the misinformation that is out there about it. Homeopaths jump on the hippy new age mamby pamby natural bollocky herbal bandwagon and hippy new age mamby pamby natural bollocky herbal people buy into it without knowing anything about it. Its a shame because I’ve known some drug smoking, dreadlock wearing folk in my time and if you told them you were going to make their joints stronger by diluting the amount of cannabis with more tobacco they would laugh in your face and politely ask you to leave. Im going slightly off topic, go sign up to the campaign!
3 Responses to “Homeopathy: There’s nothing in it…”
uksceptic wrote on January 8th, 2010 10:12 am :
I can only assume you have a whole bunch of placebo controlled blind studies with which to back up your crazy claims and that all these studies are unpublished since all the published ones prove you to be wrong.
Roachmeister wrote on January 14th, 2010 12:58 pm :
It’s a pity Puja didn’t read the article she linked to. Some quotes from it:
“Scientists conclude that homeopathy is ineffective because the remedies are diluted to the point of no molecular content, and any positive effects are likely to be placebo.”
“homeopathy… is regarded as generally ineffective”
“patient satisfaction and strength of public support for a treatment does not count as scientific evidence—just because a lot people believe something to work does not make it work”
“positive results against expectation sometimes reflect manipulation of data or perhaps even fraud”
“Scientists and medical doctors today do not think that the principle of similars is generally true or useful”
“The conventional view is that homeopathy, insofar as it has any effect at all, exploits the placebo effect – i.e. that the only benefits are those induced by the power of suggestion, by arousing hope, and by alleviating anxiety.”
“for homeopathy to receive serious scientific consideration, there needs to be plausible explanations for the following:
- how the process of manufacturing a homeopathic remedy could yield a biologically active substance or solution
- why the principle of similars might apply in the case of homeopathic remedies
- how a biological mechanism could have evolved to recognize the specific nature of homeopathic remedies
There also needs to be clear and irrefutable evidence for the efficacy of homeopathic remedies, evidence that cannot be explained by placebo effects”
Real (homeopathic) medicine cures even when Conventional Allopathic Medicine (CAM) fails