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#175 Re: Mass Overdose
February 24, 2010, 09:15:22 am
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......

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#176 Re: Mass Overdose
February 26, 2010, 05:35:46 pm
Meanwhile, the Third Estate chuck in their two-penneth…


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#177 Re: Mass Overdose
February 26, 2010, 07:00:26 pm
what a feckin twat.

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#178 Re: Mass Overdose
February 26, 2010, 09:31:26 pm
Meanwhile, the Third Estate chuck in their two-penneth…

what a feckin twat.

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

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#179 Re: Mass Overdose
February 26, 2010, 10:46:41 pm
You don't even need to be a scientist/ :guilty:

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#180 Re: Mass Overdose
January 19, 2011, 11:24:33 am

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#181 Re: Mass Overdose
January 19, 2011, 12:22:22 pm
brilliant.

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#182 Re: Mass Overdose
February 08, 2011, 12:05:48 pm
$1million offered for proof homeopathy works (I think his money is fairly safe).

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#184 Re: Mass Overdose
February 16, 2011, 01:46:08 pm
It's also great that the poll she quotes is now nearly 80% "anti".

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#185 Re: Mass Overdose
February 16, 2011, 01:56:09 pm
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....

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

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#186 Re: Mass Overdose
March 15, 2012, 09:23:27 am
NHS no longer funding research into homeopathy

(Will no doubt upset one of the researchers where I work who's interested in homeopathy :2thumbsup: )

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#187 Re: Mass Overdose
April 04, 2012, 10:48:07 am

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#188 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 09:58:14 am

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#189 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 10:36:15 am
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.

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#190 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 10:59:52 am
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...

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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.
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#191 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 11:30:54 am
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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.

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#192 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 11:43:02 am
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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.

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#193 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 05:19:14 pm
Not to mention the other side effects such as terminal smugness and self righteous droning on and on and on

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#194 Re: Mass Overdose
April 10, 2014, 10:01:05 pm
But what about homeopathy practitioners as well slopes?  :o

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#195 Re: Mass Overdose
April 11, 2014, 07:52:57 pm
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...

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#196 Re: Mass Overdose
April 11, 2014, 08:08:30 pm

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#197 Re: Mass Overdose
April 12, 2014, 09:09:42 pm
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#198 Re: Mass Overdose
April 14, 2014, 10:00:51 am


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#199 Re: Mass Overdose
April 14, 2014, 10:27:02 am

 

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