Andy Lewis & Simon Singh discuss homeopathy & the 10:23 campaign for Center for Inquiry.

[indoctus41]

Simon Singh's idea of labeling all health products for what they do is a good idea. Perhaps McNeil Pharmaceuticals would have then been forced to put on their Zomax label that it could kill you.

Good idea.

[indoctus41]

The thing about Andy and his crowd is that what they consider quackery never translates into attacking anything in conventional medicine. I even tried to point out some of this quackery on his blog but it was too much for him and he had to block me, after of course numerous meaningless threats to do so.

[DrNancyMalik]

Real is scientific homeopathy. It cures even when Conventional Allopathic Medicine (CAM) fails. Evidence-based modern homeopathy is a nano-medicine bringing big results for everyone

[CyberSetan]

@DrNancyMalik BuLLSHIT~!!

[Amygdala100]

It was a scary situation for my mum to discover that I was severely allergic

to antibiotics, such as: penicillin etc. Fortunately, my Cambridge graduated GP prescribed me with a homeopathic alternative-Belladonna, during a nasty bout of mastitis; also, I've saved an abscessed tooth, thanks to homeopathy!

[mrgodbehere]

PS- The libel against Simon Singh won't hold. Homeopathy would have to PROVE that it works in a court of law- theres no way in hell they'll risk that. The threat of Libel is just thest thumping, posturing to look like you have a point. Like when Homeopathy challenged James Randii to overdose in a lab and he agreed to the challenge, they'll back down as soon as they have to prove it.

[mrgodbehere]

We see here another example in the comments of the defense of the indefensable due to blind faith. It's water people, just water. It's a placebo and noone doubts the placebo effect. However, it should be marketted as such and not as some wonderful cure. Water has memory, my bottom. As Dara O'Brien says so well "Get in the sack"

[kickofighto]

@mrgodbehere

I totally agree! Placebo IS well documented to work and used to be used all the time. Doctors would prescribe magnesium supplements for loads of minor ailments. The thing is homeopathy makes placebo work quite well, it's a well labeled placebo. Placebo doesn't work if you don't beleive it. Someone I know took homeopathic anti-malarials! She thinks that because she didn'tget malaria they worked and will get the same again next time!

[indoctus41]

@kickofighto A meta-analysis from Australia looked at the effect of chemo-therapy on 20 cancers and found them to be essentially ineffective. Would you also consider the minimal success experienced in those fortunate few as a placebo effect?

[sumitdhawan]

homoepathy works ... the thing which u don knw about homoeopathy is that it works on a priciple of "similia similibus curantur" i.e likes are cured by likes .... every medicine be it homoeopathic or allopathic has primary and secondary sympotoms .... homoeopathy brings cure in the secondary action whereas other medicines might bring teporary releif immidiately after consumption and secondarily the actual symptoms reapear ....

TRY IT AND THEN TALK ....

[TheSkepticMag]

@sumitdhawan Thanks for the comment. Could you point me towards any good quality research papers which supports this? I'm certain some people do find homeopathic remedies helpful but individual effects are less reliable scientifically. Just as groups of people are involved in clinical trials for traditional medicine, so testing of homeopathic remedies should be subject to the same rigour.

[indoctus41]

@TheSkepticMag It's very difficult to create studies for homeopathy using conventional methods. That is because each case is treated uniquely. It is not the same as giving one drug to a thousand people for the same condition. That method would run against homeopathic protocol.

By the way the 'tests' on conventional medicine are funded by the very companies that make and profit from the products. How accurate are the results is anybody's guess.

[blibnblob]

No I wouldn't mind - Stephen LAW

[kaffles]

Very nice. I can see lots of chemists putting up signs that read: "There is no good evidence to say that this product works for anything whatsoever." :-)

[Smorfty]

Homeopathy overdoses are so funny ^^

[stevao]

love it :D

[hadr0n]

Would you mind if I mirrored this video on my channel (with the appropriate atribution of course)?