Homeopathy is NOT Medicine

Dr Simon Singh, Richard Saunders, James Randi and Dr Ian Musgrave appear on Today Tonight to express the view of science on Homeopathy.

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Science & Technology

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• Homeopthy
• Australia
• James
• Randi
• Simon
• Singh
• Richard
• Saunders

[CTR831]

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James Randyi is a magician, it is eazy enough for a magician to use magnets to fudge a homeopathic experiment with magnets, drug companies would pay large amounts to keep natural therapies in the dark. the pretend million dollars is not up for offer it is guarded by manipulation.

[skepticzonepodcast]

@CTR831 Magnets eh? That's a new one. And you're evidence for this claim is? What next I wonder? Will you throw in a conspiracy theor.... oh... you have!

[CTR831]

@skepticzonepodcast ... He is a Magician not a scientist... enough said. And there is a world wide conspiracy fact. If you are not aware of it then you must have your head in the sand.

[skepticzonepodcast]

@CTR831 You just repeated your other post? Come on... Let's try again. What is your evidence that James Randi cheated? Also, how do I know you are not part of the disinformation of the world wide conspiracy?

[mphello]

Hey, CTR831 - James Randi has advanced critical thinking and skepticism, even against him. I have some disagreements with him about certain specific issues, too long and subtle to go into here, and irrelevant anyway to the subject of homeopathy. Randi IS right about homeopathy. It IS worthless bullshit.

[ebrobaru]

@mphello Yeah, we don´t know what animals think. It is always the owner that "sees" the improvement on the pet, hence placebo effect on pets

[mphello]

@TheFriendlyEngineer Agree. Psychiatry IS a scam. But that doesn't make homeopathy right. And, even if homeopathy worked, that wouldn't prove that pharmaceuticals kill thousands of people. And even if pharmaceuticals kill thousands of people, that wouldn't prove homeopathy works.

Do I really have to go through all combinations for you?

Now, please provide peer-reviewed research for your claims re: pharmaceuticals and thousands of deaths, compared to # lives they save.

[mphello]

@ebrobaru  Bravo!

I don't think non-human animals think: "oh BOY! My owner is giving me this wonderful pill or shot that's going to cure my mange!" Then, later, after the mange happens to go away on its own, the animal thinks "what? you gave me sugar pill? How DARE you!"

[mphello]

The dumbasses who label "all natural = good, all big pharm = bad" conflate ideas that are distinct, and make meaningless distinctions that are irrelevant. They don't even attack big pharm or government testing when they should: for example, burning cats in army experiments; torturing animals in labs.

[mphello]

Absolutely 100% agree with James Randi and all rationalists on the total worthless bullshitedness of homeopathy and crystal power and the outrageous claims of chiropractors who say "all illness stems from the spine". Yeah, right. Try cancer.

But physical therapy (PT) is also a scam with outrageous exaggerated claims.

The ONLY thing PT is good for is making one feel good during a massage.

After that, one goes right back to whatever illnesses (the flu, cancer, exzema, hernia) one had before PT.

[vmelkon]

@murdocha Another fun fact : glass does dissolve in water which is one of the problems early chemists noticed when they were taking precise measurements. Even borosilicate glass dissolves in water (companies that sell glassware should publish that info).

[murdocha]

@vmelkon Yeah, read your post and went all Skepticky on it before I sat back and actually read it. You've done some sweet videos though. Somehow I doubt my wife would be very happy if I did any of those.

Keepin' it real.

[vmelkon]

@murdocha Nah, I can't argue for homeopathy. I was wondering what it is about. It seems to be FUD (fear of chemicals, uncertainty that something works or not or how it works, uncertain that something will cure you or kill you, doubt about big pharma and big brother and their research and chemicals)

[murdocha]

@vmelkon Sorry, thought you were making an argument for homeopathy there.