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Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Stopthequacks — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:28:23 -0000

Ha ha ha
Science indeed moves forward. Do you really think a single poor quality oral report is good evidence?
" The treatment group received homoeopathic medicine on the basis of totality of symptoms and individualisation"

That's not science it's mystical gibberish.

Even if you believed it, which would be insane, it doesn't prove homeopathy cures broken bones, conventional treatment was used. Taking things out of context, exaggerating, all the usual blatant errors I expect from you.
"Research has now shown that homeopathy plays an important role in orthopaedic care"

What research? Sugar pills play no part in orthopaedic care.

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Dr Nancy Malik — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:14:25 -0000

Science is ever changing. Sticking to fixed notions is like clinging to a past. Let it be any branch of science, we have to be open minded to analyze the evidence and accept the good things in it and discard the illogical things from it.

Research has now shown that homeopathy plays an important role in orthopaedic care.

Your comment has helped me to find out this study. I will add it to my database. Thank You.

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Stopthequacks — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:01:39 -0000

Nonsense of course but you are now changing your opinion you clearly expressed elsewhere: "Yes homeopathy can't cure broken bones"

http://www.theguardian.com/...

You really are completely deluded.

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Dr Nancy Malik — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:47:58 -0000

Have you read 10 science dogmas/delusions by Dr. Rupert Shedrake

http://www.collective-evolu...

The truth is that there's a medicine other than conventional medicine

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Dr Nancy Malik — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:45:06 -0000

Researchers have confirmed homeopathy's effectiveness in speeding up the healing of bone fractures. In a DBRCT of 67 patients, they found that healing was accelerated significantly through individualized homeopathic treatment.

http://www.biomedcentral.co...

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Guy Chapman — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:09:32 -0000

Be educated about the atomic nature of matter, the laws of thermodynamics, the nature of the null hypothesis in hoemopathy, and the fact that no observation has ever refuted this.

No cases over 200+ years show any unambiguous objective proof of a cure by homeopathy. If any such case existed, the debate would be over.

As to misrepresenting what you have said, feel free to point out any case where I have done this. I have, of course, interpreted what you have said, in the light of the reality you so steadfastly deny.

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Guy Chapman — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:06:00 -0000

Nancy: as I think I showed rather well, skeptics understand homeopathy better than homeopaths do! We understand why it seems to work even though there is no remotely plausible reason to expect it to, and no way it can.

TED's scientific advisory board has scientists on it. Unsurprisingly, they support the scientific consensus view that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I believe the comment you note is the result of external criticism of some TEDx events where people with views that are not supported by good science, were given a platform. Rupert Sheldrake springs to mind. Here's a non-anonymous comment: http://www.ted.com/conversa...

It's normal in science to place a higher burden on those who argue against the consensus, because the consensus is generally based on a lot of evidence. People can and do successfully challenge consensus, for example when peptic ulcers were shown to be caused by h. pylori.

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Stopthequacks — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:54:18 -0000

And as you could clearly read if you could be bothered, Nancy says homeopathy can't cure broken bones.
Who is correct, you or Nancy, and based on what evidence?

Re: Homeopaths, arm yourselves against ill-informed skeptics

Dr Nancy Malik — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:11:16 -0000

Hahnemann had discovered that chronic maladies…had some connection with a previous outbreak of Psora (skin diseases). He said, “The fact that this extremely ancient *infecting agent* has gradually passed, in some hundreds of generations, through many millions of human organisms and has thus attained an incredible development, renders it in some measure conceivable how it can now display such innumerable morbid forms in the great family of mankind.”

Ref: Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine, Roy
Publishing House, reproduced edition, Calcutta, 1972, § 181 pp. 160.

This was published 32 years before Darwin proposed his theory of
evolution in On the Origin of Species in 1860

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Sandra Courtney — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:44:58 -0000

Be educated about homeopathic Sympytum (link below) and its ability to hasten the healing of broken bones. Two family members were facing surgery to place screws in fractures (i.e., broken bones). Two casts over an 8 week period, and x-rays showed non-healing with casting alone. Surgery was recommended. Both family members were prescribed Symphytum. Surgery was avoided in both cases. Before and after x-rays confirmed the adequate healing with homeopathy alone. To be fair (which you may find repulsive), you might want to stop misrepresenting what I have posted in the past. http://www.ecologyhealthcen...

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Stopthequacks — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:28:28 -0000

Nancy, there is no "effectiveness" to negate it just doesn't work.

Your friend in delusion Sandra thinks homeopathy can cure a broken bone, you have stated it can't. Who is correct and on what evidence do you base your conclusions?

Re: Homeopathy And The Skeptics

Dr Nancy Malik — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:42:09 -0000

Just because skeptics don't understand homeopathy mechanism doesn't negate its effectiveness. Are skeptics part of TED's anonymous scientific advisory board? Robert Sweeney, "Burden of proof has shifted those who question..have more to explain if they disagree with conclusions"

Re: Miracle Mineral Supplement

Gillian Pelham — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 23:51:23 -0000

I Was on WINDCASTLE in EPI Island Its all Bullshit = He killed his wife= Doug Nash = FACT

Re: Miracle Mineral Supplement

Alex PC King — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 23:46:36 -0000

I WAS ON "wINDCASTLE" 1 YEAR LATER WE VISITED EPI Island, We went to the elders ; then all of a sudden the women took me aside; Captain killed her! they said. Why I ask?
she was having FUN and DANCING with the LOcals ;HE did not like this apparently. He would not dance!!!!!!!!!
!Captain complained to me
"was very expensive moving her body to be Cremated'! ;in my diary the amount he said...;
;What A creap I say ,,,...
I WAS on Windcastle and my Quarters were full of 'out of date ' pills in my bathroom cabinet.
I asked to destroy them= 'He nearly took my head off;
NO<leave them="" be...="" ..he="" then="" evicted="" me="" off="" boat="" a="" few="" islands="" later,="" the="" harbour="" master="" said="" "you="" are="" safe="" now'="" get="" off="" that="" boat........="" he="" did="" it="" he="" killed="" her="" -we="" "know="" that-="" but="" no="" proof",,,,fact.....="" the="" receptionist="" at="" honeymoon="" island="Was on my side ; Told him you cannot chuck off crew willy nilly" =you="" have="" to="" pay="" for="" her="" to="" get="" back="" to="" a="" place="" where="" she="" can="" get="" back="" to="" sydney="at" your="" expence;="" he="" delivered="" the="" cash="" to="" reception="" apparently-="" for="" 1="" day="She" told="" him="" not="" enough="" as="" gillian="" has="" to="" wait="" 4="" days="" for="" a="" flight="" out="" of="" here="" for="" a="" connection="" to="" sydney="apparently" he="" paid="" cash="" to="" hotel="" .what="" a="" nightmare="" .......to="" be="" continued="" he="" had="" to="" pay="" my="" stay="" in="" hotel="" until="" a="" flight="" came="" 4="" days="" later.....="" ;="">

Re: Miracle Mineral Supplement

Steve — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:31:47 -0000

Why anyone would willingly ingest such a chemical is inconceivable. You just have to look at an MSDS sheet for Sodium Chlorite to realise this is an extremely harmful substance. Our company, www.reagent.co.uk works with this kind of solution on a daily basis and we are required to use respiratory protection!

Re: Sandra A. Hermann-Courtney

rosross — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:55:25 -0000

Actually it is far from the first ever recorded instance of a cure through Homoepathic Treatment for they have been around for a couple of centuries and are added to constantly, but never let facts get in the way of propaganda.
The reality is that however committed Sandra may be, Homeopathy needs no-one to fight for it as a medical methodology and it is under no threat. Homeopathy is the world's fastest growing medical methodology and has gone steadily from strength to strength since it was founded, despite intermittent and occasional attempts from some to demonise it for their own particular, and peculiar reasons.
Everyone has a right to decide for themselves what they choose to utilise in their health treatments and Homeopathy stands alone in being able to claim it does no harm; something which Allopathic Medicine could never claim, and even TCM and Herbal Medicine cannot fully claim given the nature of the remedies used.

Re: Homeopaths, arm yourselves against ill-informed skeptics

Lee Turnpenny — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:36:09 -0000

There are serious paradoxes in homeopathy: the attitude that likes to cite (what it considers scientifically valid) trials, and the attitude that (when there are no pickable cherries) considers the clinical trial to be inapplicable. The validatory resort to abstruse science, and the disregard of solidly characterised biochemistry and physics. Strong belief rejects discordant explanations, and defensively lambasts the 'ignorance' of those providing them. Fascinating in its way.

Re: 75% of in vitro experiments have found that substances as dilute as homeopathic medicines have specific effects

Drew Burdett — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:19:01 -0000

GCSE science defines "reproducible" as having had independently repeated results.

At least there are 15/16 year olds who can spot what's wrong with their conclusions.

Re: Alternative engineering

Guy Chapman — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 05:49:08 -0000

Oh I know, it just seemed to go well with the Indian approach to road safety :-)

But your version is better. See, I stole it!

Re: Alternative engineering

marcwilson — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:31:26 -0000

Guy, I do believe you're mixing up your sky-fairies. "Inshallah" is an *Islamic* concept: "If God wills it."
Ayurvedic would be more .. karma. An Ayurvedic engineer would be- well, a Karmechanic. (sorry)

Re: Sandra A. Hermann-Courtney

Stopthequacks — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:49:38 -0000

Oh dear, simultaneously claiming she is being cyber bullied and facing personal attacks, and then this: I hate to break it to you all but, well you aren't pretty.

http://fighting-for-homeopa...
See the comment by Christine.

Juvenile doesn't do her justice. Hypocrite doesn't do her justice. Brought forth from the shallow end of the gene pool I suspect.

Re: Sandra A. Hermann-Courtney

anarchic teapot — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:10:11 -0000

Sandra isn't happy at all with this "trash". http://fighting-for-homeopa...

Aw diddums. She's old enough to know that if you lie and smear others, they have no reason to be tender in return.

Re: Sandra A. Hermann-Courtney

David Doran — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:25:16 -0000

Don't suppose it will ever appear on her comments list but I just left this:

"Hi, I'm not really into activism as such, but would love to be added to your enemies of homeopathy list. Thanks in advance. Regards, David Doran, @DavidADoran."

Dave.

Re: Mutual exclusivity no bar to belief

Guy Chapman — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:25:45 -0000

There's also the fact that they delayed action on health warnings for decades despite knowing that they were killing their customers, and they also lied before about the function of advertising being "brand switching" when it plainly isn't.

Re: Sandra A. Hermann-Courtney

Tetenterre — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 06:41:36 -0000

Has she passed the Turing Test?