[dave]

Just realised the problem with asking Boots to stop selling homeopathic remedies - the shelves will retain a memory of the products.....

I recon there's plenty of mileage in this line of analogies......

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Meanwhile, the Third Estate chuck in their two-penneth…

[Sloper]

what a feckin twat.

[slackline]

Meanwhile, the Third Estate chuck in their two-penneth…

what a feckin twat.

   You don't need to be an expert in homoeopathy to realise/understand that it the claims don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.

[Sloper]

You don't even need to be a scientist/

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[Duma]

brilliant.

[slackline]

$1million offered for proof homeopathy works (I think his money is fairly safe).

[slackline]

This is hilarious...

Homeopathists don't want to be regulated because they know their hocus pocus won't stand up to scientific scrutiny

[Jaspersharpe]

It's also great that the poll she quotes is now nearly 80% "anti".

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It's also great that the poll she quotes is now nearly 80% "anti".

This comment is brilliant in light of the "mobilisation" and the effect its had on the poll....

be careful, by diluting their results you are just making them stronger

[slackline]

NHS no longer funding research into homeopathy

(Will no doubt upset one of the researchers where I work who's interested in homeopathy )

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[slackline]

Its Homeopathy Awareness Week from today.

[Fiend]

Its http://www.homeopathyawarenessweek.org/ Homeopathy Awareness Week from today.

Fixed that for you slackbot. The first link was accidentally going to some fanatical anti-homeopathy group who had been oh so very clever in registering a spoof url.

[slackline]

Its http://www.homeopathyawarenessweek.org/ Homeopathy Awareness Week from today.

Fixed that for you slackbot. The first link was accidentally going to some fanatical anti-homeopathy group who had been oh so very clever in registering a spoof url.

Err, that was deliberate Matt.

I think its important to raise awareness of the harm homeopathy causes and the money that is wasted on it rather than the bullshit the practitioners  continue to peddle in the face of zero evidence for efficacy of their sugar-pills.

Heres a link to the Australian National Health and Medical Research Coucil's draft review on the efficacy of homeopathic treatments (direct link to PDF).

Aside from the fact that most studies are poorly conducted...

The available evidence is not compelling and fails to demonstrate that homeopathy is an effective treatment for any of the reported clinical conditions in humans.

[Johnny Brown]

I think its important to raise awareness of the harm homeopathy causes

Harm, really? I thought you said it didn't work. There are lots of people with imaginary diseases best treated with imaginary treatments.

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I think its important to raise awareness of the harm homeopathy causes

Harm, really? I thought you said it didn't work. There are lots of people with imaginary diseases best treated with imaginary treatments.

And there are people with real diseases who mistakenly place their faith in homeopathy and die needlessly.

Some examples are listed at the Homeopathy Awareness Week site, such as a nine month old who's parents tried to treat the eczema and was admitted to hospital with sepsis before dying.  The parents were jailed for manslaughter.

Or homeopaths pedalling their wears as being able to prevent malaria which is utter bullshit and pure exploitation.

[Sloper]

Not to mention the other side effects such as terminal smugness and self righteous droning on and on and on

[a dense loner]

But what about homeopathy practitioners as well slopes? 

[Oldmanmatt]

I think Homeopathy is a particularly evil form of con trick.

Along with any other "Alternative medicine", that purport to treat genuinely life threatening conditions (including diabetes etc) and there is a lot of it.

It was shocking the crap that was thrown at us by well meaning morons, during Lili's illness and I continue to be stunned by the pathetically tenuous quackery people will cling to, with no evidence or even logic.

And sickened by the charlatans and sadistic thieves, who at best willingly delude themselves, that peddle the shit to the credulous.
I find it improbable in the extreme, that they are unaware of their fraud.


And, boy, do I sound like Sloper...

[dave]

[Oldmanmatt]

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Flickr have annoyingly removed the BBCode option for easy copying and pasting.

[SA Chris]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8841347/Steve-Jobs-regretted-trying-to-beat-cancer-with-alternative-medicine-for-so-long.html

Surely Steve Jobs' example is a good one for the anti alternative medicine brigade.