wow this shit got me rich crazy people will bye little trinkets of water if it says it will fix something and was prayed over by many people. Its called the plesibo effect!!! I even got emails saying ifixed peoples arthritis and glacoma even. It may make me a monster but it proves the ideocy of the entire subject and at least the money goes to me most of it after living expenses and college payment(seriously thanks for that guys) then goes to the ASPCA.
I can't believe that you used the term "When a nigger got uppity" in your bizarre rant. Homeopathy has failed the test of science time and time again. You cite a proven fraud in Jacques Benveniste as an example of successful research when he was discredited as a fraud years ago.
Homeopathy is at best a placebo, and at worst a complete fraud perpetrated on the desperate and uneducated.
If you really want to make a good argument. Cut the showmanship, show me a large-scale study using double-blind tests with a placebo and a cure. Don't yell, just point me to a link. That's all you need to do, that's all you've EVER needed to do.
There is absolutely no evidence that homeopathy works. If there was, that person would have won the 1 million dollar prize offered by James Randi. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience and it is time people realize this and stop scamming the world. If water has memory, then why doesn't it remember all the other things it was mixed with, for example Bandershot's poop?
Thanks for all your work showing the research that I keep hearing isn't there.
Perhaps that's the irony in homeopathy, because the skeptics can't see the molecules, it blinds them to seeing (or even looking for) the research.
Lately the media (BBC, CBC, etc) are exploiting the quackbuster's bold sabotage attempts. I think we can successfully sue them with the research available, and that could fund more research, what do you think?
But I won't call him doctor, because doctor is the Greek word for teacher, and the master said call no man teacher, call no man master, your only master, guide and god is your Father in Heaven, not Yale university, not Steven Novella. You are no man's nigger. You're God's nigger.
? what is wrong with you?
.really it's sad you go on about evidence in your video and description but show absolutely none..
or do you need about as much evidence as there is for a god to make people believe in this
Benneth, do you LIKE listening to your own voice? This is just a collection of silly words, probably made when you were drunk or something. Get some help. Seriously!
As for this little movie, well it's just...totally insane and side-bustingly hilarious! What more proof do we need than this...of your insanity.
Not going to look up the papers you allude to, long day and all the others I've seen spoke of placebo effects. I would just like to point out that you need to learn how to use the word theory in science. I'm kinda worried that you could have easily misunderstood them if you don't know basic terminology
Ive been using homeopathy for 15 years and have experienced amazing results. This video is insultingly bad. Does anyone think that this kind of heavy-handedness will make anyone want to know more? I think this just makes it look as kooky as people already believe it to be. Thanks a lot.
Hey, John Benneth, this is the best one yet !!! Every second of it is wonderful, and every word is illuminating. And, as your words always are, these words are . . . . . . . The Truth, The Whole Truth AND Nothing But The Truth !!!
If homeopathy were to appear today for the first time it would be laughed away. The idea that "less is more (superdilution makes something more powerful)" is stupidity squared.
Those who claim that there is scientific evidence of homeopathy are obliged to prove it, not just claim it. Claiming ain't proving.
I've encountered this "big lie" technique with UFO nuts who claim "confessions" of a "government coverup" of contacts with aliens, yet do not (because they cannot) cite specifics
@gwgoldb Every point you've made re: homeopathy is demonstrably wrong. When it appeared 200 years ago and had only one man to defend it, it was scoffed at for the same reasons it is now, but the obvious evidence of action won over every skeptic who was smart enough to put it to real tests on themselves, which is how it developed its extensive literature, & now we have biochemical tests that show it works, a bigger threat to the toxic drug industry than their current criminal indictments!
@Bandershot It works, and yet James Randi has been demonstrating for years that ingesting an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills won't cause you to fall asleep.
There have been countless double blind tests with thousands of individual homeopathics on healthy volunteers over the past 200 years or so. These show that homeopathic medicines in various potencies have an effect, CAUSING SYMPTOMS, of a consistent nature in various people. Therefore, homeopathic medicines do have specific effects, in humans, animals & even plants, regardless of what we do or don't know of the mechanism.
@annesash Thank you for making your testimony. Further proof that what you say is true can be found in the 100,000 case notes by Hahnemann alone; the extensive symptomatic indexes by numerous MDs created from over 200 years of observation . . my repertory covers over 74,000 symptoms indicated for use in over 1000 different FDA approved remedy substances, described concordantly in 400 repertories; the WHO reports it is used more than any other medicine world wide except for traditional Chinese.
@Bandershot Thank you. Explanations of the method of homeopathic provings (blind/double blind testing of homeopathic medicines) are easily found in print and online as you know, yet some choose to ignore this most important aspect of homeopathy. It just doesn't suit their purpose to acknowledge it. ;)
@annesash You're so right. Homeopaths were the first to conduct double blinds amongst other things, such as the first to produce a pharmacopoeia. I have found that in the hundreds of comments I've seen against homeopathy, not only do they fail to meet the standards demanded for it, every one turns out to be false. None of its opponents have read the literature, by Hahnemann, Kent or Clarke etc. And not even the homeopaths seem to be aware of the biochem evidence, much less the phys. theory.
@Bandershot ..and here we have a perfect example below :) They don't want to see the truth, rather continue using abusive language & bullying tactics. As I said, doesn't suit their purpose. Secondly, most practising homeopaths have their time taken up with prescribing for those who come for help, within the thousands of possibilities in homeopathy, so are grateful for your most significant time & efforts in finding and disseminating this information on studies/research :)
@annesash well I am sorry you are so delude. There are NO double studies of Homeopathy. The basic premise of Homeopathy has no validity, The said thing is people like you make these statements and people listen.
I am sorry for you and those that listen to you. But your keeping people in the darkages.
@teb0atoz big drug company brain washing says "there are NO double blind (studies) of homeopathy," but I can name numerous ones. teb0atoz says "the basic premise of homeopathy has no validity," which is simply too vague to have much meaning. what teb0atoz may be trying to say is that the molecular agent of the homeopathic remedy is not known, but that also is false. The action of homeopathic remedies is due to aqueous structuring, i.e. clathrate hydrates via hydrogen bonding. teb0atoz=FAIL
If you had anything sensible to say you would be publishing your rigorous and ground breaking research - not imitating Adolph Hitler. It is really sad to see someone in their 60's behave like teenagers.
@ThrakhathOfKilrah There's nothing much I can do better than what's already been done, except to present it. Just what is it you think needs to be proven?
So far, I haven't heard a cogent argument against it. The only problem with homeoapthy I have found so far is not that it doesn't work, but that it does, and this is extremely disturbing to people of your mindset.
Actually I would have no problem with homeopathy working. It is just that in order for me to talk about it as "working" it would have to be "working" consistently in the same manner as other medicine. That is statistically significant effects when all biases are removed. If you have the scientific skill to administer such tests and write a paper about it, and the integrity to accept peer review and learn from it then go for it. Otherwise... who do you think you are fooling?
I think that is fantastic! Now all that remains is to have other independent researchers do the experiment over and over again :)
My Google searches do not turn up a single scientific commentary on the paper which is slightly suspect. I mean, we wouldn't want to rely on a single paper from a single source would we?
But of course you being scientifically trained (!?!) you are surely aware of that and why this is the case.
Which leads me to the question: Who are you trying to fool?
@ThrakhathOfKilrah WHat we've discovered from repeated testing is that no matter how much evidence is presented, you won't be satisfied. The only purpose you serve here is to bring forth facts. You do that by making false statements, and me responding to them with the truth. We then all begin to see that there really is no legit case against hpathy.
Moreover, the literature is overhelming in its descrition of the clinical action of these substances. Google James KENT materia medica homeoint
@Bandershot Another point that should be made here is that these medicines aren't like patent medicines. They have a different structure and they work on different principles So in order to undertand them, physicans have relied on two things. One, their historical orthomolecular properties, which can be traced back to the earliest reporters; and their supramolecular properties, which have now been observed for 200 years, creating a huge empircal database. Mine now covers over 1000 substances.
But seriously speaking what homeopathy has that real medicine is lacking is greater time spent with the patients and the personal value for the patient. If there is something about homeopathy that could survive it is that. The trick is really to get rid of the pseudo-science, starting with watering down poison until only water remains etc.
@ThrakhathOfKilrah You're not dealing with reality. If you think that the mere appearance of a thing as being medical is enough for me & countless others to buy it OTC, feel its effects & then buy more, then what does that say about the brand of patented synthesized, ADVERTISED toxic crap you're pushing? You're the ones paid to make things up, hide behind pseudonyms, lie & attack time tested medicine. You'd have NOTHING to say or sell if you weren't paid to lie & put real names on it .
I think it is great that you have discovered that ... and I think it is equally sad that you you are unable to share your discovery. You can make assertions all they long but in the end it "works" if it works consistently over time for different observers - not just one paper by one group. Imagine if we had the same standards for evaluating real medicine (difference being it is not just water that once contained other molecules).
@ThrakhathOfKilrah In order to keep getting paid to astroturf, you have to work out of your own dictionary & betray your own standards. The fact of the matter is we can walk down the street & buy FDA reg'd scientifically tested hpathic products right off the shelf & use them to treat our ills. If there's a real case against it for fraud it would have been made in court DECADES ago. But it hasn't. People want it because it WORKS. Google Barrett vs. Kingbio. Barrett tried & lost. as will you.
@ThrakhathOfKilrah "You can make assertions all they long but in the end it "works" if it works consistently over time for different observers - not just one paper by one group."
It's very easy to find evidence of individual homeopathics having a consistent effect, in different people, at different times all over the world. Not simply reducing transient symptoms, but PRODUCING symptoms not otherwise experienced, in healthy volunteers. Look up explanation of homeopathic "provings".
@amoxtlacatl Due to political purposes they call it supramolecular. They can't afford to be behind the curve onthis with material scientists at other universities such as Penn State and the U of Ariz, and Nobel laureate drinking the dilute flavored Kool Aid, proving hapthics with physical tests.
@teb0atoz "We measured 20-MHz R1 and R2 water proton NMR relaxation rates in ultrahigh dilutions (range 5.43·10−8 M–5.43·10−48 M) of histamine in water (Hist-W) and in saline (Hist-Sal), prepared by iterative centesimal dilutions under vigorous agitation in controlled atmospheric conditions. Unexpectedly, histamine dilutions remained distinguishable from solvents up to ultrahigh levels of dilution (beyond 10−20 in Hist-Sal)" Demangeat
@teb0atoz Google: "On the Structure of High Dilutions According to the Clathrate Model G.S. Anagnostatos, Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Center for Scientific Research, Attiki, Greece
@teb0atoz "Simple-minded analysis suggests water, being a fluid, cannot have a structure homeopathy demands. But cases such as that of liquid crystals, which while flowing like an ordinary fluid can maintain an ordered structure over macroscopic distances, show the limitations of such ways of thinking. There have not, to the best of my knowledge, been any refutations of homeopathy that remain valid after this particular point is taken into account." Brian Josephson, 1973 Nobel prize for physics
@teb0atoz Google "Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci (2009) 1: 81–90
"Electromagnetic Signals Are Produced by Aqueous Nanostructures Derived from Bacterial DNA Sequences" by Luc MONTAGNIER, 2008 Nobel prize winner for Medicine! These are only a few who have 'converted."
@Bandershot Sorry bu as most those sources are unvarifiable this is just a lot of what I am convienced is your babbling giberish. I know that molecoules/atoms do NOT leave any mark or interaction on a water molecule. But if Homeopathy was correct then every molecule of water would impart effect from every thing it has ever come in contact with.
Homeopathy is just a way for someone, i.e.you, to delude people out of there money.
@teb0atoz Everything I've posted can be read online. Now take a look at your own assertions. I'm giving you the names of Nobel laureates you can Google, but what other than trying to impugn my character are you doing? Do you really think the position against homeoapthy is more credible because you lack an explanation for it? Read the literature. This is complex chemistry, not compound. Google Rustum Roy. If this was a delusion, the FDA wouldn't regulate it.
you have seemingly lost it sir. if you truly think that this insane rant makes your argument look compelling, you are sadly mistaken. Very professional.
Yes lets junk the philosophical approaches which give you YOUTUBE to broadcast your mental problems on. If physical scientists follow the principals you espouse then we would still be in the Middle Ages (or a bit before). Imagine building machines which run contrary to physical laws ? Methinks you protest too much. Perhaps you could get more money on the stage rather than from deluded (or deluding) 'patients'.
On a less serious note fella your claim we cant prove homeopathy doesnt work Mr. Singh the top dog novella and god himself Randi would pull your pants down and shaft you at every angle possible I would love to debate all these facts but we all have real lives to be getting on with and I have a cold so am off to have a bath in your miracle potion. Please accept my offer cash is no problem my side and will go through with this offer. Stress AGAIN serious offer to prove you right cheerio lad.
I wish to personally fund you a trip to Africa, to hopefully get you infected of malaria for you then to return home drink your piss-water potion and remarkably survive the disease, however a small part of me would believe that you wouldnt take me up on this offer but I stress this is not a $1 million "hoax, I would seriously pay every penny to watch you cry for the PROVEN medicine that actually works.
@MrKevlav You'd pay to watch another human suffer? Hmm. Interesting you would mention malaria, as a homeopathic nosode of plasmodia is indeed being used in Arica as a prophylaxis for malaria . . so what you want me to do is currently being done successfully now on human beings. I'd love to take a trip to Africa, and would be happy to use homeopathic prophylaxis. I wouldn't be the first. If you have more on this besides phony claims and abuse, let's hear it . .
@MrKevlav Since I hven't heard anything more from you about your offer (maybe you were drunk when you made it) I am left with thehope that you will see the light about homeopathy for being the fantasticc medicine that it is.
@MrKevlav This so-called 1 million$ Randi thing was what opened my eyes to research the hundreds of different modalities from frequencies and electricity to dozens of powerful herbs compounds stolen from tribes by pharma.
Randi backed out on his "challenge" to homeopathy unless he could control the PLAYERS; made excuses to prevent his and pharma's very black eye.
@Bandershot No, I'm just trying to put your story together. If you don't have a findable practice, then that's evidence that this is a hoax designed to discredit homeopathy. If you did have a private practice, I'd be surprised to find out that people come to despite your online presence.
@rachelschmink Let me ask you a couple more questions. SInce you seem to be so concerned about the truth and doing things right and respecting other people for their beliefs and lifestyles, what gives you the right to present my image iwthout my permission? And what gives you the right to present what's been deemed inapproriate by the video sharing site? Sounds like someone wirtten herself a hall pass.
@Bandershot I think your questions are about two kinds of right: "legal" and "ethical". Taking the "ethical" issue, I can see that there is a balancing, with equities on both sides. In summary, I believe I've behaved ethically because my videos are substantively accurate. Let me ask you: is there anything you'd like that would make you comfortable with them being online? E.g., a statement from you in the description? A link to you?
@rachelschmink No, that's not necessary, but thank you for asking & offering. The problem I see is that, as with censored video, the issue is not being addressed in it's full context. Show the whole thing. If all it takes to change the message is the titling that frames it fore & aft, then consider it in an even broader context. Allow for all the testimony, the totality of evidence. Show us proof homeopathy is placebo.
@Bandershot Exactly: birth control pills are extensively studied and proven more effective than placebo before the FDA grants approval. (And if, by some anomaly, that hasn't been the case, it ought to be!)
@rachelschmink The FDA? It was a homoepath who designed the FDA. (Google Copeland) How do you explain that? The entire practice of homeopathy was created out of observing the effects of animal, mineral and vegetable substances on human beings. So now who's got it backwards? Listen, Rachel, I don't think you're stupid, I think you're quite intelligent, and you're admirably out front with this. I'm just waiting for some real skepticism from you to kick in . .
@Bandershot Keeping the discussion on point: In science, everything is assumed to be placebo until proven otherwise. The FDA then, a govt agency, approximates this approach in the form of regulation. I think that's a great concept.
@Bandershot What does it matter who founded what, if the FDA has set a standard by which we can evaluate the efficacy of a therapy? If the test is a well designed and suitable one, then it only matters what passes it, not who designed it.
@rachelschmink The point is, Rachel, the opposition to homeopathy is only that. I don't see an investigation by you as to why it has been so persistently a legal doctrine still in use by MDs; but merely your foregone conclusion based on nothing but denial. Your not showing the testimony of its best proponents, you're only showing what you think will discredit it. Why is that? If you're so fair, why is it we're not reading through you the statement and study of Nobel laureates who support it?
@Bandershot "I don't see an investigation by you..." There are many investigations you won't see me do. And this means nothing. I simply contribute my one small data point to the discussion: A video showing the inconsistency and apparent duplicity of those claiming to know how homeopathy works.
All-right you have convinced me, no more Aspirin for me. From here on it is only Nitricum Acidum for me. Ill skip the weak stuff at 6C and go directly to the 30C - wouldn't want to risk even a single molecule of toxic nitric acid in my homoeopathic water would I.
@Fragenzeichenplatte The FDA was founded by a homeoapth (Copeland), and he set the rule for homeopaths into law: We are not to treat any specific clincial condition, we are to treat the whole man inhis totality of symptoms. The only cure comes from within. We strike the spark, the gunpowder of the spirit does the rest.
@Bandershot It is not possible to treat hundreds of completely unrelated diseases with the same approach. Maybe treat some symptoms but not cure.
Also, there may be some quirky proporties of water at the molecular level but you still have to show us how this relates to actually curing diseases. You might as well use quantum theory as a proof that homeopathy works.
Any "scientific" subject who's proponents regularly invoke conspiracies to explain away critics is a sure sign it is more pseudo than science.
Another sign of more pseudo than science is if the ratings of the videos the proponents post on youtube are overwhelmingly negative. Even clearer signs are if the ratings have been disabled altogether or the comments are screened.
@dogweather Inappropriate content. I am a physician first, a stand up comic second. I am to look upon the human condition as suffering from circumstance, not choice.
@rachelschmink Why don't you ask Youtube? That's who actually took it down. Since you're the one who's now showing it, you're now in danger of being charged with posting a video that has content, judged by Youtube, to have inappropriate content in it. Why you should be allowed to continue showing it is a topic of discussion all in itself. I guess I should thank you, but that might be . . innapproriate.
@rachelschmink Why don't you ask Youtube? That's who actually took it down. Since you're the one who's now showing it, you're now in danger of being charged with posting a video that has content, judged by Youtube, to be inappropriate. Why YOU should be allowed to continue showing it is a topic of discussion all in itself. I guess I should thank you, but that might be . . innapproriate.
the "evidence" to support homeopathy has been easily debunked and expunged from any journals that regrettably printed them. if homeopathy worked tijuana would be the miracle cure capital of the world.
@krmagley Anyone can go to PUBMED and search the literature for themselves to see if that's true or not. My review of it shows two dozen articles supporting homeoapthy publ'd in well known peer reviewed journals, including the AMA's. So perhaps you could clarify which ones have been expunged. As far as I know, the number of pub'd tests now range in the 100's, the majority of them showing the action of homeopathics.
To all those who think this is parody: I'm sorry to say that unless the is the most deep cover attempt at satire ever conceived, this guy really believes what he's saying. A little research shows that he actualy is a proponent and really is that crazy.
Comparing the "persecution" homeopathy's advocates to that of African slaves makes you a bad person. Also, I find your crazy very attractive. When can I come to your house, and pet your mustache?
The guy is like a cheesy hollywood supervillan, complete with retro sound effects. Wind? Echoes? Slow-mo speech? Seriously? Its like 1984 for homeopathy.
Unbelievable.
Look buddy, all argument aside: no one in their right mind could possibly take you seriously. You sound like a evangelic preacher on a roll and thats not how any scientific discussion should be conducted.
@2centsofchange Ditto. And it's interesting that he's allowing comments like yours to be posted... This is causing me to reconsider whether or not this is *complete* satire. It's hard to imagine a person putting their professional reputation on the line this way.
@Bandershot I see evidence for both arguments. For support for this being non-satire, I see the length of time you've been making homeopathic-themed posts (apparently at least since 1999). Secondly, the sheer number of videos. Finally, the "call to action" advertising element present in your older, more mundane videos.
Holy moly man....You're loosing it. The fact that you think you need these kinds of theatrics says a lot more to us "opponents" than I think you realize.
This is the great thing about being a crackpot: you can hold whatever completely useless, pseudoscientific and even dangerous belief you want, and your belief is proven by the fact that everyone disagrees with you! I love it!
"Look how much they oppose my nonsense! It must mean that my nonsense is true! That's the only possible reason for people disagreeing with me!"
There is of course another possibility: the reason people disagree with homeopathy is because it doesn't work.
...contd.. one aspect to keep in mind is that it's easy to screw up and think that anything is better than placebo. Bandershot is making quite radical claims on homeopathy's efficacy.. one would almost think it works better than conventional medicine. I'd like to see trials suggesting that. The science says that IF it works at all (it likely does not) then it's effects are negligible.
wow, sounds like the rantings of a madman... but he does make scientific claims the articles cited to be grossly misrepresented. The literature on this subject is sketchy, with trails falling above and below significance. You can't take the ones that show significance and ignore those that do not. the better designed a trail is generally the lower the significance.
@alexkidd3d Study the Belon biochem trials & the work of Roy, Tiller & many others. There should be no doubt that hpathics work after reading that. If you don't believe it, call them up on the phone. Don't just sit there
& try to make believe you know more than Nobel laureates & the heads of science depts at major universities, or are we supposed to believe some anonymous troll or armchair critic like Novella? Stop being such a coward.
@Bandershot I'm not suggesting by any degree that there are not trials with positive results. There plainly are, but things are more complicated than that. They always are huh? positive trials are not proof of efficacy. These trials have to be taken in the context of all trials and in the context of how well performed specific trials are. To point to positive trials as showing homeopathy works is like me flipping a coin three times and declaring there is a 66% chance a coin will fall heads up.
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
Homeopathy cranks, I'm really kind of shocked you are backing this horse. The guy is clearly rabid at worst and an epic troll at best. Anyway, If I was a crank, I would definitely take old Deepak over this guy- at least Deepak has some charisma and new-agey charm to him.
The internet is full of people just as mad - and stupid, willfully ignorant and irrational - as Mr Novella. Remeber VenomFangX? Or AntiHomoFag, Happeh, and Gorilla99?
The scum of the gene pool, all of them right here on YouTube. And great fun they are too for the rest of us.
No, unfortunately he not acting or trolling. Mr Benneth is all to well known to the skeptical community and he regularly rants about the benefits about of homeopathy, despite the lack of medical science or his lack of understanding of medical sciences. The very beginning is a threat made against Dr. Steven Novella of Yale University and host of The Skeptics's Guide to the Universe. He threatens him on a regular basis and Steve has become a weird obsession of Benneth's.
No, unfortunately he not acting or trolling. Mr Benneth is all to well known to the skeptical community and he regularly rants about the benefits about of homeopathy, despite the lack of medical science or his lack of understanding of medical sciences. The very beginning is a threat made against Dr. Steven Novella of Yale University and host of The Skeptics's Guide to the Universe. He threatens him on a regular basis and Steve has become a weird obsession of Benneth's.
No he is not action nor trolling. Mr. John Benneth is all well to known in the skeptical community and he regularly rants about homeopathy. He is a genuine nutcase. At the very beginning he makes a threat against Dr. Steven Novella or Yale University whom he has become strangely obsessed over and makes threats against on a regular basis.He is not acting nor trolling one single bit sadly enough, he has been banned from several boards for not following rules and making threats.
No, unfortunately. Mr. Benneth is all well to known in the skeptical community for his pro-homeopathy rants and posts. He believes in homeopathy's ability to cure almost any illness to the point of blind faith even against the medical evidence. He has no understanding of medical science. He also makes frequent threats against Dr. Steve Novella of Yale University and host of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe whom Benneth obsessed over. He is very much a loon.
It's time for the denialists to get real. It's time for them to be honest by trying it for themselves and reporting the results honestly. It's time for them to read the work evidencing for homeopathy in an honest, scientific fashion.
In the end, if the denialists don't like homeopathy, they don't have to use it. They aren't being forced to. By the same token, those who do use it will undoubtedly continue to use it because they know how beautifully it works.
Now there's an excellent question....why should homeopathy have ANY opponents! Reasonable people have to question the motives of that small group of denialists who work so hard to convince everyone else that h. doesn't and can't work.
I've used it with great success for many years to treat chronic and acute illnesses. Do these people really think they can convince me, my homeopath and my doctor that the great gains in my health are merely figments of our imaginations?
why are you so mad??I can't concentrate watching you..
happinesson 1 month ago
this probably has the most logical fallacies in one place that i've ever seen..
by the high way.. a study being 'double blind' doesn't mean there isn't serious methodological flaws in the design..
at first i thought this must be a joke.. but i think this guy may have some serious mental problems..
koreanprideno1 2 months ago
This is satire right? I mean cmon...
OhmgrownCron 3 months ago
Wow this video reminds me of a speech by adolf H. Man What a nut case!! A christian homeopathetic racist with a healthy dose of NPD
bluemune2 3 months ago
wow this shit got me rich crazy people will bye little trinkets of water if it says it will fix something and was prayed over by many people. Its called the plesibo effect!!! I even got emails saying ifixed peoples arthritis and glacoma even. It may make me a monster but it proves the ideocy of the entire subject and at least the money goes to me most of it after living expenses and college payment(seriously thanks for that guys) then goes to the ASPCA.
IllegalAlien1 5 months ago
I can't believe that you used the term "When a nigger got uppity" in your bizarre rant. Homeopathy has failed the test of science time and time again. You cite a proven fraud in Jacques Benveniste as an example of successful research when he was discredited as a fraud years ago.
Homeopathy is at best a placebo, and at worst a complete fraud perpetrated on the desperate and uneducated.
GGGeoff 6 months ago
If you really want to make a good argument. Cut the showmanship, show me a large-scale study using double-blind tests with a placebo and a cure. Don't yell, just point me to a link. That's all you need to do, that's all you've EVER needed to do.
Digephil 6 months ago
preach brother preach!
SuperBigusdikus 10 months ago
Why does that toilet keep flushing in the background?
MWhybird 11 months ago
Disabled ratings? I'm sorry I couldn't rate down. Cowards.
pdblouin33 11 months ago
Love the craziness, but it gets a bit repetitive after a while.
dave28lax 1 year ago
There is absolutely no evidence that homeopathy works. If there was, that person would have won the 1 million dollar prize offered by James Randi. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience and it is time people realize this and stop scamming the world. If water has memory, then why doesn't it remember all the other things it was mixed with, for example Bandershot's poop?
atheist9119 1 year ago
Alleluia! fantastic, everyone seems to love misery and chemicals
ysiblini 1 year ago
You rock John!!
Thanks for all your work showing the research that I keep hearing isn't there.
Perhaps that's the irony in homeopathy, because the skeptics can't see the molecules, it blinds them to seeing (or even looking for) the research.
Lately the media (BBC, CBC, etc) are exploiting the quackbuster's bold sabotage attempts. I think we can successfully sue them with the research available, and that could fund more research, what do you think?
Euclidianify 1 year ago
AHAHHAHAHAHAH
YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS GUY AHAHAHAHAH
supertacticalbacon 1 year ago
What a load of BS. Not even true about Yale. They only teach medicine that works and helps people.
Arcata0 1 year ago
But I won't call him doctor, because doctor is the Greek word for teacher, and the master said call no man teacher, call no man master, your only master, guide and god is your Father in Heaven, not Yale university, not Steven Novella. You are no man's nigger. You're God's nigger.
? what is wrong with you?
.really it's sad you go on about evidence in your video and description but show absolutely none..
or do you need about as much evidence as there is for a god to make people believe in this
devote 1 year ago
How can anybody still believe this crap even a quick look at the wiki page alone will cut through all this bullshit
devote 1 year ago
Dude, could you please remove the effects and don't speak about GOD in this Wonderful video and repost it again :-)
qwanraj 1 year ago
Benneth, do you LIKE listening to your own voice? This is just a collection of silly words, probably made when you were drunk or something. Get some help. Seriously!
As for this little movie, well it's just...totally insane and side-bustingly hilarious! What more proof do we need than this...of your insanity.
TrichosurusVulpecul 1 year ago
Not going to look up the papers you allude to, long day and all the others I've seen spoke of placebo effects. I would just like to point out that you need to learn how to use the word theory in science. I'm kinda worried that you could have easily misunderstood them if you don't know basic terminology
westfalla 1 year ago
Ive been using homeopathy for 15 years and have experienced amazing results. This video is insultingly bad. Does anyone think that this kind of heavy-handedness will make anyone want to know more? I think this just makes it look as kooky as people already believe it to be. Thanks a lot.
empressjk 1 year ago
Hey, John Benneth, this is the best one yet !!! Every second of it is wonderful, and every word is illuminating. And, as your words always are, these words are . . . . . . . The Truth, The Whole Truth AND Nothing But The Truth !!!
(Let those with ears to hear.....)
den151redbank 1 year ago
@den151redbank
Wow, that doesn't sound cult-like at all.
Vire70 11 months ago
If homeopathy were to appear today for the first time it would be laughed away. The idea that "less is more (superdilution makes something more powerful)" is stupidity squared.
Those who claim that there is scientific evidence of homeopathy are obliged to prove it, not just claim it. Claiming ain't proving.
I've encountered this "big lie" technique with UFO nuts who claim "confessions" of a "government coverup" of contacts with aliens, yet do not (because they cannot) cite specifics
gwgoldb 1 year ago
@gwgoldb Every point you've made re: homeopathy is demonstrably wrong. When it appeared 200 years ago and had only one man to defend it, it was scoffed at for the same reasons it is now, but the obvious evidence of action won over every skeptic who was smart enough to put it to real tests on themselves, which is how it developed its extensive literature, & now we have biochemical tests that show it works, a bigger threat to the toxic drug industry than their current criminal indictments!
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot It works, and yet James Randi has been demonstrating for years that ingesting an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills won't cause you to fall asleep.
Tsresponds 8 months ago
@Bandershot So, do you realize you're a con artist selling water, or do you really believe this garbage?
halleyscomet 7 months ago
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annesash 1 year ago
There have been countless double blind tests with thousands of individual homeopathics on healthy volunteers over the past 200 years or so. These show that homeopathic medicines in various potencies have an effect, CAUSING SYMPTOMS, of a consistent nature in various people. Therefore, homeopathic medicines do have specific effects, in humans, animals & even plants, regardless of what we do or don't know of the mechanism.
annesash 1 year ago
@annesash Thank you for making your testimony. Further proof that what you say is true can be found in the 100,000 case notes by Hahnemann alone; the extensive symptomatic indexes by numerous MDs created from over 200 years of observation . . my repertory covers over 74,000 symptoms indicated for use in over 1000 different FDA approved remedy substances, described concordantly in 400 repertories; the WHO reports it is used more than any other medicine world wide except for traditional Chinese.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Thank you. Explanations of the method of homeopathic provings (blind/double blind testing of homeopathic medicines) are easily found in print and online as you know, yet some choose to ignore this most important aspect of homeopathy. It just doesn't suit their purpose to acknowledge it. ;)
annesash 1 year ago
@annesash You're so right. Homeopaths were the first to conduct double blinds amongst other things, such as the first to produce a pharmacopoeia. I have found that in the hundreds of comments I've seen against homeopathy, not only do they fail to meet the standards demanded for it, every one turns out to be false. None of its opponents have read the literature, by Hahnemann, Kent or Clarke etc. And not even the homeopaths seem to be aware of the biochem evidence, much less the phys. theory.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot ..and here we have a perfect example below :) They don't want to see the truth, rather continue using abusive language & bullying tactics. As I said, doesn't suit their purpose. Secondly, most practising homeopaths have their time taken up with prescribing for those who come for help, within the thousands of possibilities in homeopathy, so are grateful for your most significant time & efforts in finding and disseminating this information on studies/research :)
annesash 1 year ago
@annesash well I am sorry you are so delude. There are NO double studies of Homeopathy. The basic premise of Homeopathy has no validity, The said thing is people like you make these statements and people listen.
I am sorry for you and those that listen to you. But your keeping people in the darkages.
teb0atoz 1 year ago
@teb0atoz big drug company brain washing says "there are NO double blind (studies) of homeopathy," but I can name numerous ones. teb0atoz says "the basic premise of homeopathy has no validity," which is simply too vague to have much meaning. what teb0atoz may be trying to say is that the molecular agent of the homeopathic remedy is not known, but that also is false. The action of homeopathic remedies is due to aqueous structuring, i.e. clathrate hydrates via hydrogen bonding. teb0atoz=FAIL
Bandershot 1 year ago
@teb0atoz 1.Personal attack, wrong. 2. Wrong. 3. Which basic premise is that? The law of similars? 4. duh 5. Baseless presumption. 6. same.
annesash 1 year ago
HOMEOPATHY IS MY RELIGION!
jacobromu 1 year ago
@Bandershot
If you had anything sensible to say you would be publishing your rigorous and ground breaking research - not imitating Adolph Hitler. It is really sad to see someone in their 60's behave like teenagers.
ThrakhathOfKilrah 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah There's nothing much I can do better than what's already been done, except to present it. Just what is it you think needs to be proven?
So far, I haven't heard a cogent argument against it. The only problem with homeoapthy I have found so far is not that it doesn't work, but that it does, and this is extremely disturbing to people of your mindset.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot
Actually I would have no problem with homeopathy working. It is just that in order for me to talk about it as "working" it would have to be "working" consistently in the same manner as other medicine. That is statistically significant effects when all biases are removed. If you have the scientific skill to administer such tests and write a paper about it, and the integrity to accept peer review and learn from it then go for it. Otherwise... who do you think you are fooling?
ThrakhathOfKilrah 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah
Ruta 6 selectively induces cell death in brain cancer cells but
proliferation in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes:
A novel treatment for human brain cancer
INT'L J OF ONCOLOGY 23: 975-982, 2003
Depts of Cancer Biology & Lab. Medicine, U. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
This is just one of dozens of research papers like this.
Compare this to Pfizer's huge fine for bribing docs to push untested drugs that killed people. Hypocrisy?.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot
I think that is fantastic! Now all that remains is to have other independent researchers do the experiment over and over again :)
My Google searches do not turn up a single scientific commentary on the paper which is slightly suspect. I mean, we wouldn't want to rely on a single paper from a single source would we?
But of course you being scientifically trained (!?!) you are surely aware of that and why this is the case.
Which leads me to the question: Who are you trying to fool?
ThrakhathOfKilrah 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah WHat we've discovered from repeated testing is that no matter how much evidence is presented, you won't be satisfied. The only purpose you serve here is to bring forth facts. You do that by making false statements, and me responding to them with the truth. We then all begin to see that there really is no legit case against hpathy.
Moreover, the literature is overhelming in its descrition of the clinical action of these substances. Google James KENT materia medica homeoint
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Another point that should be made here is that these medicines aren't like patent medicines. They have a different structure and they work on different principles So in order to undertand them, physicans have relied on two things. One, their historical orthomolecular properties, which can be traced back to the earliest reporters; and their supramolecular properties, which have now been observed for 200 years, creating a huge empircal database. Mine now covers over 1000 substances.
Bandershot 1 year ago
Except molecules do not have a memory...
But seriously speaking what homeopathy has that real medicine is lacking is greater time spent with the patients and the personal value for the patient. If there is something about homeopathy that could survive it is that. The trick is really to get rid of the pseudo-science, starting with watering down poison until only water remains etc.
ThrakhathOfKilrah 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah You're not dealing with reality. If you think that the mere appearance of a thing as being medical is enough for me & countless others to buy it OTC, feel its effects & then buy more, then what does that say about the brand of patented synthesized, ADVERTISED toxic crap you're pushing? You're the ones paid to make things up, hide behind pseudonyms, lie & attack time tested medicine. You'd have NOTHING to say or sell if you weren't paid to lie & put real names on it .
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot
I think it is great that you have discovered that ... and I think it is equally sad that you you are unable to share your discovery. You can make assertions all they long but in the end it "works" if it works consistently over time for different observers - not just one paper by one group. Imagine if we had the same standards for evaluating real medicine (difference being it is not just water that once contained other molecules).
ThrakhathOfKilrah 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah In order to keep getting paid to astroturf, you have to work out of your own dictionary & betray your own standards. The fact of the matter is we can walk down the street & buy FDA reg'd scientifically tested hpathic products right off the shelf & use them to treat our ills. If there's a real case against it for fraud it would have been made in court DECADES ago. But it hasn't. People want it because it WORKS. Google Barrett vs. Kingbio. Barrett tried & lost. as will you.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@ThrakhathOfKilrah "You can make assertions all they long but in the end it "works" if it works consistently over time for different observers - not just one paper by one group."
It's very easy to find evidence of individual homeopathics having a consistent effect, in different people, at different times all over the world. Not simply reducing transient symptoms, but PRODUCING symptoms not otherwise experienced, in healthy volunteers. Look up explanation of homeopathic "provings".
annesash 1 year ago
I agree; homeopothies actually work. there is no evidence that they don't work.
Sugardaddy501 1 year ago
When exactly is Yale University beginning to teach homeopathy?
I can find no information on the Internet confirming that it will.
amoxtlacatl 1 year ago
@amoxtlacatl Due to political purposes they call it supramolecular. They can't afford to be behind the curve onthis with material scientists at other universities such as Penn State and the U of Ariz, and Nobel laureate drinking the dilute flavored Kool Aid, proving hapthics with physical tests.
Bandershot 1 year ago
Homeopathy is snake oil. I can not pass valid scientific investigation, i.e. double blind testing. There is no validation.
A lot of words do not justification for this claptrap.
P.S. NO SCIENTIST HAVE CONVERTED.
teb0atoz 1 year ago
@teb0atoz "We measured 20-MHz R1 and R2 water proton NMR relaxation rates in ultrahigh dilutions (range 5.43·10−8 M–5.43·10−48 M) of histamine in water (Hist-W) and in saline (Hist-Sal), prepared by iterative centesimal dilutions under vigorous agitation in controlled atmospheric conditions. Unexpectedly, histamine dilutions remained distinguishable from solvents up to ultrahigh levels of dilution (beyond 10−20 in Hist-Sal)" Demangeat
Bandershot 1 year ago
@teb0atoz Google: "On the Structure of High Dilutions According to the Clathrate Model G.S. Anagnostatos, Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Center for Scientific Research, Attiki, Greece
Bandershot 1 year ago
@teb0atoz "Simple-minded analysis suggests water, being a fluid, cannot have a structure homeopathy demands. But cases such as that of liquid crystals, which while flowing like an ordinary fluid can maintain an ordered structure over macroscopic distances, show the limitations of such ways of thinking. There have not, to the best of my knowledge, been any refutations of homeopathy that remain valid after this particular point is taken into account." Brian Josephson, 1973 Nobel prize for physics
Bandershot 1 year ago
@teb0atoz Google "Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci (2009) 1: 81–90
"Electromagnetic Signals Are Produced by Aqueous Nanostructures Derived from Bacterial DNA Sequences" by Luc MONTAGNIER, 2008 Nobel prize winner for Medicine! These are only a few who have 'converted."
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Sorry bu as most those sources are unvarifiable this is just a lot of what I am convienced is your babbling giberish. I know that molecoules/atoms do NOT leave any mark or interaction on a water molecule. But if Homeopathy was correct then every molecule of water would impart effect from every thing it has ever come in contact with.
Homeopathy is just a way for someone, i.e.you, to delude people out of there money.
have a nice day
teb0atoz 1 year ago
@teb0atoz Everything I've posted can be read online. Now take a look at your own assertions. I'm giving you the names of Nobel laureates you can Google, but what other than trying to impugn my character are you doing? Do you really think the position against homeoapthy is more credible because you lack an explanation for it? Read the literature. This is complex chemistry, not compound. Google Rustum Roy. If this was a delusion, the FDA wouldn't regulate it.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@teb0atoz "NO SCIENTIST HAVE CONVERTED. "
Too bad the proverbial Cat is out of the Bag! lol!
It also allowed the entire world to see the Mr. Randi "Million Dollar Man" offer too was complete crap when he was challenged on this very subject.
He made excuses and finally dropped out when it became clear he could not control the results.
Randi is the very charlatan he claims to assail.
UnoRaza 1 year ago
@teb0atoz 1. False 2. False. 3.False 4. doesn't make sense, & 5. False.
annesash 1 year ago
Great video !
Love your modality or method of "dropping knowledge"!
UnoRaza 1 year ago
you have seemingly lost it sir. if you truly think that this insane rant makes your argument look compelling, you are sadly mistaken. Very professional.
JPO1618 1 year ago
@JPO1618 Thank you very much. Maybe I could get a job working for Pfizer.
Bandershot 1 year ago
Yes lets junk the philosophical approaches which give you YOUTUBE to broadcast your mental problems on. If physical scientists follow the principals you espouse then we would still be in the Middle Ages (or a bit before). Imagine building machines which run contrary to physical laws ? Methinks you protest too much. Perhaps you could get more money on the stage rather than from deluded (or deluding) 'patients'.
skulptor 1 year ago
@skulptor Don't you mean "diluting" patients? BTW, I have to approve your comments before they show.
Bandershot 1 year ago
On a less serious note fella your claim we cant prove homeopathy doesnt work Mr. Singh the top dog novella and god himself Randi would pull your pants down and shaft you at every angle possible I would love to debate all these facts but we all have real lives to be getting on with and I have a cold so am off to have a bath in your miracle potion. Please accept my offer cash is no problem my side and will go through with this offer. Stress AGAIN serious offer to prove you right cheerio lad.
MrKevlav 1 year ago
I wish to personally fund you a trip to Africa, to hopefully get you infected of malaria for you then to return home drink your piss-water potion and remarkably survive the disease, however a small part of me would believe that you wouldnt take me up on this offer but I stress this is not a $1 million "hoax, I would seriously pay every penny to watch you cry for the PROVEN medicine that actually works.
MrKevlav 1 year ago
@MrKevlav You'd pay to watch another human suffer? Hmm. Interesting you would mention malaria, as a homeopathic nosode of plasmodia is indeed being used in Arica as a prophylaxis for malaria . . so what you want me to do is currently being done successfully now on human beings. I'd love to take a trip to Africa, and would be happy to use homeopathic prophylaxis. I wouldn't be the first. If you have more on this besides phony claims and abuse, let's hear it . .
Bandershot 1 year ago
@MrKevlav Since I hven't heard anything more from you about your offer (maybe you were drunk when you made it) I am left with thehope that you will see the light about homeopathy for being the fantasticc medicine that it is.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@MrKevlav This so-called 1 million$ Randi thing was what opened my eyes to research the hundreds of different modalities from frequencies and electricity to dozens of powerful herbs compounds stolen from tribes by pharma.
Randi backed out on his "challenge" to homeopathy unless he could control the PLAYERS; made excuses to prevent his and pharma's very black eye.
UnoRaza 1 year ago
lol i'm Gods nigger...i love your videos...your a real character ;0)
aaugoaa 1 year ago
:-D
KentaPenta64 1 year ago
You are an absolute crank (albeit an entertaining one).
sleepcity 1 year ago
Are you a practicing homeopath? I can't find any reference to a practice when searching for "john benneth homeopathy".
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Are you in need of a treatment?
Bandershot 1 year ago
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rachelschmink 1 year ago
@Bandershot No, I'm just trying to put your story together. If you don't have a findable practice, then that's evidence that this is a hoax designed to discredit homeopathy. If you did have a private practice, I'd be surprised to find out that people come to despite your online presence.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Thank you for keeping my work alive.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Let me ask you a couple more questions. SInce you seem to be so concerned about the truth and doing things right and respecting other people for their beliefs and lifestyles, what gives you the right to present my image iwthout my permission? And what gives you the right to present what's been deemed inapproriate by the video sharing site? Sounds like someone wirtten herself a hall pass.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot I think your questions are about two kinds of right: "legal" and "ethical". Taking the "ethical" issue, I can see that there is a balancing, with equities on both sides. In summary, I believe I've behaved ethically because my videos are substantively accurate. Let me ask you: is there anything you'd like that would make you comfortable with them being online? E.g., a statement from you in the description? A link to you?
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink No, that's not necessary, but thank you for asking & offering. The problem I see is that, as with censored video, the issue is not being addressed in it's full context. Show the whole thing. If all it takes to change the message is the titling that frames it fore & aft, then consider it in an even broader context. Allow for all the testimony, the totality of evidence. Show us proof homeopathy is placebo.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot "Show us proof homeopathy is placebo". You've got it exactly backwards: *Everything* is placebo until proven otherwise.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Like birth control pills?
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Exactly: birth control pills are extensively studied and proven more effective than placebo before the FDA grants approval. (And if, by some anomaly, that hasn't been the case, it ought to be!)
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink The FDA? It was a homoepath who designed the FDA. (Google Copeland) How do you explain that? The entire practice of homeopathy was created out of observing the effects of animal, mineral and vegetable substances on human beings. So now who's got it backwards? Listen, Rachel, I don't think you're stupid, I think you're quite intelligent, and you're admirably out front with this. I'm just waiting for some real skepticism from you to kick in . .
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Keeping the discussion on point: In science, everything is assumed to be placebo until proven otherwise. The FDA then, a govt agency, approximates this approach in the form of regulation. I think that's a great concept.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@Bandershot What does it matter who founded what, if the FDA has set a standard by which we can evaluate the efficacy of a therapy? If the test is a well designed and suitable one, then it only matters what passes it, not who designed it.
icilianfenner 1 year ago
@rachelschmink The point is, Rachel, the opposition to homeopathy is only that. I don't see an investigation by you as to why it has been so persistently a legal doctrine still in use by MDs; but merely your foregone conclusion based on nothing but denial. Your not showing the testimony of its best proponents, you're only showing what you think will discredit it. Why is that? If you're so fair, why is it we're not reading through you the statement and study of Nobel laureates who support it?
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot "I don't see an investigation by you..." There are many investigations you won't see me do. And this means nothing. I simply contribute my one small data point to the discussion: A video showing the inconsistency and apparent duplicity of those claiming to know how homeopathy works.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
Dude you need some proper medical attention. I wish all the best for you.
benji5 1 year ago
All-right you have convinced me, no more Aspirin for me. From here on it is only Nitricum Acidum for me. Ill skip the weak stuff at 6C and go directly to the 30C - wouldn't want to risk even a single molecule of toxic nitric acid in my homoeopathic water would I.
MrBizak 1 year ago
@MrBizak
that's not how it works
dantheman1507 1 year ago
YES!!!!!
GlorifiedTruth 1 year ago
I get it, April Fools!
kilroy1964 1 year ago
You quote the Lancet article from 1997. But you forgot the next sentence:
"However, we found insufficient evidence from these studies that homeopathy is clearly efficacious for any single clinical condition."
Doesn't matter anyway since you are a fucking lunatic.
Fragenzeichenplatte 1 year ago
@Fragenzeichenplatte The FDA was founded by a homeoapth (Copeland), and he set the rule for homeopaths into law: We are not to treat any specific clincial condition, we are to treat the whole man inhis totality of symptoms. The only cure comes from within. We strike the spark, the gunpowder of the spirit does the rest.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot It is not possible to treat hundreds of completely unrelated diseases with the same approach. Maybe treat some symptoms but not cure.
Also, there may be some quirky proporties of water at the molecular level but you still have to show us how this relates to actually curing diseases. You might as well use quantum theory as a proof that homeopathy works.
Fragenzeichenplatte 1 year ago
Any "scientific" subject who's proponents regularly invoke conspiracies to explain away critics is a sure sign it is more pseudo than science.
Another sign of more pseudo than science is if the ratings of the videos the proponents post on youtube are overwhelmingly negative. Even clearer signs are if the ratings have been disabled altogether or the comments are screened.
ArcanaKnight 1 year ago
I like the Internet. Previously one would have to go down to the subway to hear this kind of lunatic ranting.
therling 1 year ago
Mr. Benneth, please comment on why you took down your latest video.
dogweather 1 year ago
@dogweather Inappropriate content. I am a physician first, a stand up comic second. I am to look upon the human condition as suffering from circumstance, not choice.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot Can you elaborate? I don't understand exactly what you mean.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Why don't you ask Youtube? That's who actually took it down. Since you're the one who's now showing it, you're now in danger of being charged with posting a video that has content, judged by Youtube, to have inappropriate content in it. Why you should be allowed to continue showing it is a topic of discussion all in itself. I guess I should thank you, but that might be . . innapproriate.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Why don't you ask Youtube? That's who actually took it down. Since you're the one who's now showing it, you're now in danger of being charged with posting a video that has content, judged by Youtube, to be inappropriate. Why YOU should be allowed to continue showing it is a topic of discussion all in itself. I guess I should thank you, but that might be . . innapproriate.
Bandershot 1 year ago
the "evidence" to support homeopathy has been easily debunked and expunged from any journals that regrettably printed them. if homeopathy worked tijuana would be the miracle cure capital of the world.
krmagley 1 year ago
@krmagley Anyone can go to PUBMED and search the literature for themselves to see if that's true or not. My review of it shows two dozen articles supporting homeoapthy publ'd in well known peer reviewed journals, including the AMA's. So perhaps you could clarify which ones have been expunged. As far as I know, the number of pub'd tests now range in the 100's, the majority of them showing the action of homeopathics.
Bandershot 1 year ago
To all those who think this is parody: I'm sorry to say that unless the is the most deep cover attempt at satire ever conceived, this guy really believes what he's saying. A little research shows that he actualy is a proponent and really is that crazy.
ArcanaKnight 1 year ago
When I consider things like homeopathy I realize I was born a million years too soon, for I am surrounded by utter barbarians.
MathReality 1 year ago
Is this brilliant satire, or unbelievable madness?
BohemianBlasphemy 1 year ago
@BohemianBlasphemy
Madness, this guy actually believes every word he says.
jubulalau 1 year ago
why would we want you to shut up>? it is thanks to people like you we can point to the inherent craziness behind homeopathy.
killufstr 1 year ago
This is starting to sound like Shin Megami Tensei data-technology. xD
Lay off the booze, man.
Fjarhultian 1 year ago
Comparing the "persecution" homeopathy's advocates to that of African slaves makes you a bad person. Also, I find your crazy very attractive. When can I come to your house, and pet your mustache?
JtheWonderLlama 1 year ago
Wow...
The guy is like a cheesy hollywood supervillan, complete with retro sound effects. Wind? Echoes? Slow-mo speech? Seriously? Its like 1984 for homeopathy.
Unbelievable.
Look buddy, all argument aside: no one in their right mind could possibly take you seriously. You sound like a evangelic preacher on a roll and thats not how any scientific discussion should be conducted.
2centsofchange 1 year ago
@2centsofchange Ditto. And it's interesting that he's allowing comments like yours to be posted... This is causing me to reconsider whether or not this is *complete* satire. It's hard to imagine a person putting their professional reputation on the line this way.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Let me ask you a question Rachel . . what makes you think it is NOT satire?
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot I see evidence for both arguments. For support for this being non-satire, I see the length of time you've been making homeopathic-themed posts (apparently at least since 1999). Secondly, the sheer number of videos. Finally, the "call to action" advertising element present in your older, more mundane videos.
rachelschmink 1 year ago
@rachelschmink Why do you think it could be satire?
Bandershot 1 year ago
The rantings of a lunatic.
milo540 1 year ago
Holy moly man....You're loosing it. The fact that you think you need these kinds of theatrics says a lot more to us "opponents" than I think you realize.
steveisgood 1 year ago
There's no way this guy actually believes what he's saying. It's a parody, folks!
c6gunner 1 year ago
Is that the sound of a toilet flushing throughout this vid?
Novella! Hushhhhhh.......
chipcherry 1 year ago
Hey faggot .. fix your faggot ass audio.
Faggot.
SwollenCranium 1 year ago
You're delusional.
bogFot 1 year ago
baaahhaaha what's with the blowing wind and voice effects? This is becoming more and more super villain comic book like.
>>>
NOVELLLAAAAAAA1111
alfproperjohn 1 year ago
This is the great thing about being a crackpot: you can hold whatever completely useless, pseudoscientific and even dangerous belief you want, and your belief is proven by the fact that everyone disagrees with you! I love it!
"Look how much they oppose my nonsense! It must mean that my nonsense is true! That's the only possible reason for people disagreeing with me!"
There is of course another possibility: the reason people disagree with homeopathy is because it doesn't work.
UppruniTegundanna 1 year ago
...contd.. one aspect to keep in mind is that it's easy to screw up and think that anything is better than placebo. Bandershot is making quite radical claims on homeopathy's efficacy.. one would almost think it works better than conventional medicine. I'd like to see trials suggesting that. The science says that IF it works at all (it likely does not) then it's effects are negligible.
alexkidd3d 1 year ago
wow, sounds like the rantings of a madman... but he does make scientific claims the articles cited to be grossly misrepresented. The literature on this subject is sketchy, with trails falling above and below significance. You can't take the ones that show significance and ignore those that do not. the better designed a trail is generally the lower the significance.
alexkidd3d 1 year ago
@alexkidd3d Study the Belon biochem trials & the work of Roy, Tiller & many others. There should be no doubt that hpathics work after reading that. If you don't believe it, call them up on the phone. Don't just sit there
& try to make believe you know more than Nobel laureates & the heads of science depts at major universities, or are we supposed to believe some anonymous troll or armchair critic like Novella? Stop being such a coward.
Bandershot 1 year ago
@Bandershot I'm not suggesting by any degree that there are not trials with positive results. There plainly are, but things are more complicated than that. They always are huh? positive trials are not proof of efficacy. These trials have to be taken in the context of all trials and in the context of how well performed specific trials are. To point to positive trials as showing homeopathy works is like me flipping a coin three times and declaring there is a 66% chance a coin will fall heads up.
alexkidd3d 1 year ago
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
rersp21107 1 year ago
@rersp21107 With all due respect, may I ask you some questions?
Bandershot 1 year ago
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
rersp21107 1 year ago
As a black woman I find it highly offensive that you should invoke the memory of slavery to bolster your illogical beliefs in homeopathy. You think you were making a neat post-racial parallel demonstrating how liberal you are and I see a pathetic analogy giving you an opportunity (which you apparently relished) to use the "N" word. Go you! SMH
rersp21107 1 year ago
One Question- Where do you get MEMORY FREE WATER to start with?
latenightrob1 1 year ago
Hahahaha! This guy is really funny!
tweek75 1 year ago
Hahahaha! This guy is hillarious!
tweek75 1 year ago
Wow. Excellent April fool's upload; in places I for a while almost thought he was being serious.
RobHinkley 1 year ago
Best. April. Fools. Ever.
RobHinkley 1 year ago
This cretin thinks he can threaten the career of a professor of neurology at Yale?
By the way, Homeopathic remedies are just water, no matter how you wish, or how furiously you jack them off.
HConstantine 1 year ago
He's serious. I'm pretty sure he is, look at his other videos.
Belgarath1966 1 year ago
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leveler346 1 year ago
Homeopathy cranks, I'm really kind of shocked you are backing this horse. The guy is clearly rabid at worst and an epic troll at best. Anyway, If I was a crank, I would definitely take old Deepak over this guy- at least Deepak has some charisma and new-agey charm to him.
ChinaManManMany 1 year ago
You know you're crazy don't you dude ?
jfkldsfjsl 1 year ago
He is not trolling
ROMAQHICKS 1 year ago
@genco21
The internet is full of people just as mad - and stupid, willfully ignorant and irrational - as Mr Novella. Remeber VenomFangX? Or AntiHomoFag, Happeh, and Gorilla99?
The scum of the gene pool, all of them right here on YouTube. And great fun they are too for the rest of us.
KapitanoStuff 1 year ago
Don't be fooled folks. This guy is clearly trolling you.
He's an actor.
He's quite good, but nobody is really this mad.
genco21 1 year ago
@genco21
No, unfortunately he not acting or trolling. Mr Benneth is all to well known to the skeptical community and he regularly rants about the benefits about of homeopathy, despite the lack of medical science or his lack of understanding of medical sciences. The very beginning is a threat made against Dr. Steven Novella of Yale University and host of The Skeptics's Guide to the Universe. He threatens him on a regular basis and Steve has become a weird obsession of Benneth's.
ROMAQHICKS 1 year ago
@genco21
No, unfortunately he not acting or trolling. Mr Benneth is all to well known to the skeptical community and he regularly rants about the benefits about of homeopathy, despite the lack of medical science or his lack of understanding of medical sciences. The very beginning is a threat made against Dr. Steven Novella of Yale University and host of The Skeptics's Guide to the Universe. He threatens him on a regular basis and Steve has become a weird obsession of Benneth's.
ROMAQHICKS 1 year ago
@genco21
No he is not action nor trolling. Mr. John Benneth is all well to known in the skeptical community and he regularly rants about homeopathy. He is a genuine nutcase. At the very beginning he makes a threat against Dr. Steven Novella or Yale University whom he has become strangely obsessed over and makes threats against on a regular basis.He is not acting nor trolling one single bit sadly enough, he has been banned from several boards for not following rules and making threats.
ROMAQHICKS 1 year ago
@genco21 Hm, on the subject of internet pests, a `flamer' is one who calls other people names...
Folks, why not just check the facts mentioned in the video before you cast judgement
FactsAreFacts 1 year ago
@genco21 Hold on, there are also`flamers' who call other people names...
Folks, I suggest you check the facts mentioned in the video before you cast judgement.
leveler346 1 year ago
@genco21 "but nobody is really this mad"
I am skeptical of that assertion.
halleyscomet 1 year ago
@genco21
Unfortunately he is quite genuine.
HConstantine 1 year ago
@genco21 On the subject of Trolls...there are also`flamers' who call other people names..
Folks, I suggest you check the facts mentioned in the video before you cast judgement.
leveler346 1 year ago
I still haven't figured out if this guy is a crazy person, or doing an excellent parody of a crazy person.
In either case...he needs to restart his meds.
tjreamer 1 year ago
@tjreamer You mean homeopathic meds for psychiatric illness don't count?
halleyscomet 1 year ago
He's like the Lewis Black of the crank world.
mjr256 1 year ago
NOVELAAAAAAAAA
SnakePlisken332 1 year ago
Sir, you should really stick with voice acting. Movie making is just not your forte.
Nasikabatrachus 1 year ago
@mrengineering101
No, unfortunately. Mr. Benneth is all well to known in the skeptical community for his pro-homeopathy rants and posts. He believes in homeopathy's ability to cure almost any illness to the point of blind faith even against the medical evidence. He has no understanding of medical science. He also makes frequent threats against Dr. Steve Novella of Yale University and host of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe whom Benneth obsessed over. He is very much a loon.
ROMAQHICKS 1 year ago
Cue Twilight Zone theme . . .
artoo45 1 year ago
It's time for the denialists to get real. It's time for them to be honest by trying it for themselves and reporting the results honestly. It's time for them to read the work evidencing for homeopathy in an honest, scientific fashion.
In the end, if the denialists don't like homeopathy, they don't have to use it. They aren't being forced to. By the same token, those who do use it will undoubtedly continue to use it because they know how beautifully it works.
den151redbank 1 year ago
Now there's an excellent question....why should homeopathy have ANY opponents! Reasonable people have to question the motives of that small group of denialists who work so hard to convince everyone else that h. doesn't and can't work.
I've used it with great success for many years to treat chronic and acute illnesses. Do these people really think they can convince me, my homeopath and my doctor that the great gains in my health are merely figments of our imaginations?
den151redbank 1 year ago
Man this guy is crazy, I love him. He is acting right?
mrengineering101 1 year ago
I love your videos, I hope that you keep making them. Preach brother preach.
trendy09 1 year ago
Keep these videos coming Bandershot, I cant get enough.
trendy09 1 year ago
insane but entertaining as usual mr benneth
munsism 1 year ago
Listen to this man, he's right.
Devlog2k 1 year ago
dude, get help. You're seriously messed up.
tehnutjobbery 1 year ago
dude, get help. You're seriously messed up.
ouiselio 1 year ago
dude, get help. You're seriously messed up.
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