The Enemies of Reason - The Irrational Health Service

On 17 May 2009 the Swiss people voted to enshrine Homeopathy and complementary medicine in a national vote. Sixty Seven percent of voters supported the new constitutional article.

Indeed - and in the UK we have the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. As it is though, scientific truth is not an exercise in popularity, democracy, or royal assent, but what can be demonstrated by observation within a theoretical framework.

If homeopathy worked then I'd like to see someone try homeopathic birth control. I can't seen to find it the local quack health stores.

"However, some things are originally considered alt (simply because they are first used by alt practitioners), and are later found to actually work."

Then the practitioners who thought them to be "alternative" in the first place were at fault.

Noooo, it is the fault of the alt practitioners for not presenting credible evidence. You can't make a claim and expect to get respect for it, unless you have credible evidence to back it up.

This is a little odd. You are trying to make a case for something scientific, by relying on what someone 2400 years ago thought.
Ooook.

The present incarnation of homeopathy is WAY different than anything that could be related to Hippocrates, who was just trying to balance the humors. If you want to say that because he thought "like curse like" in a few instances, then you might as well say that he was also supporting vaccination.

No... I'm saying that Hippocrates said homeopathy worked 2000 years ago and he's still right today.

He didn't qualify that by saying "in a few instances".

Again, homeopathy (EXTREME dilution of like cures like) never existed before Hanneman. Whatever Hippocrates was talking about was not homeopathy.

Regardless, it's still funny that you are trying to bolster support for your argument by calling on someone from 2400 years ago. Glad to know you use such up to date, current science ;)

Yes.... he was. "Disease is eliminated by substances capable of producing similar symptoms".

In other words, "homeopathy works".

So, are you saying that dilution is not part of homeopathy? And would getting a flu vaccine be homeopathy?

This is like how some Christians will say "well, the Bible says 'in the beginning', so that means that the author knew about the big bang."

Do you think that alchemy is right, since Newton thought it was true too?