Homeopathy under attack

[Mich the Tester]

The evidence is there that people who are treated using homeopathy have greater reduction in symptoms than people who have no treatment at all.

placebo effect, plus the psychological effect of someone comforting a patient

[Mich the Tester]

The mind is a powerful thing..........................

I think it was Richard Dawkins who said you should open your mind, but don't open it so much that your brains fall out.

[OwlHoot]

The best chapter of the best book I’ve ever read.

Summarized nicely here

[EternalOptimist]

Surely there must be someone here, possibly an expert in statistics and modelling, who believes that a trace molecule can have an inordinate effect upon the host ? Some sort of atmospheric homeopath ?

[minestrone]

placebo effect, plus the psychological effect of someone comforting a patient

So you accept that it works then, what is the argument?

[Mich the Tester]

So you accept that it works then, what is the argument?

Placebos often work, you just don’t have to dress them up as ‘alternative medicine’, with special theories about water having a memory if you shake it up and down.

[minestrone]

Placebos often work, you just don’t have to dress them up as ‘alternative medicine’, with special theories about water having a memory if you shake it up and down.

Who cares, the treatment works, you can harldy have a placebo effect when you tell the patient that there is no treatment can you?

[EternalOptimist]

So you accept that it works then, what is the argument?

you dont have to build special hospitals and hire special doctors to hand out placebos. Ordinary doctors do it often enough

[Spacecadet]

So you accept that it works then, what is the argument?

I recommend that next time you're at the hospital you refuse all treatment apart from homeopathic remedies.
If for some reason your so badly injured that you can't tell the doctors your intentions then I personally will go along to make sure that they only use the most highly diluted and therefor most powerfull remedies when treating you.

[Mich the Tester]

I recommend that next time you're at the hospital you refuse all treatment apart from homeopathic remedies.
If for some reason your so badly injured that you can't tell the doctors your intentions then I personally will go along to make sure that they only use the most highly diluted and therefor most powerfull remedies when treating you.

And while we’re defying the laws of physics, we could go over to chef’s Bad Back thread and advise him that jumping from a high building might solve his back pain.