James Randi explains homeopathy

If you believe that homeopathic medicine can treat ailments better than medicine that has been scientifically proven to work, you are acting irrational. In this short video James Randi explains homeopathy. This is a portion of the lecture Randi gave at Princeton in 2001. The full video is here: http://www.rationalresponders.com/james_randi_lecture_at_princeton_2001_2hours

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[nemesis1ization]

i am taking homeopathy for bronchitis, i am fucking stopping it!!

[murdocha]

What an extremely intelligent post.

Let's see, what has real medicine done since Homeopathy was invented?

smallpox vaccine, anaesthetic, blood transfusions, antiseptic surgical methods, germ theory of disease, vaccines for cholera, anthrax, rabies, tetanus, typhoid fever, plague, pertussis, tuberculosis, yellow fever, diphtheria, rubella, influenza, meningitis, x-rays, malarial treatment, blood typing, insulin, antibiotics, open heart surgery, IVF.

And you have magic water.

We win.

[BarrageHero]

Homeopathy DOES work better than professional treatments for SOME ailments. The reason being that some homeopathic remedies are not necessarily proven or supported by medicinal science. Acne and tendonitis are two good examples. I've used zit cream throughout my adolescence, and none of it ever cleared my face completely. After doing some research, I began using garlic to treat my acne. A week later? No acne. I had a similar experience with Wrist Tendonitis.

[murdocha]

Oh, please educate us, oh great knowledgeable one! Please stoop to the level of our ignorance if only for a fleeting moment and shine your light of divine intelligence upon our lowly heads. We, who are so ignorant in the ways of enlightenment. We, who are not worthy to polish your boots.

Please, a little full of yourself, aren't you? I think we should invoke a new logical fallacy: Argument from douchiness.

[murdocha]

Okay, I have just been schooled. Obviously, you have done in-depth research into the field. Please provide the links to the peer-reviewed studies you have published that I may enlighten myself.

Or perhaps you could provide a cite an actual report that confirms the conspiracy theory you adhere to.

As to having a clue about medicine, How, exactly, would you recommend I "educate" myself? How did you get your "education"?

[tellnet]

See a psychiatrist,

[John Doe]

Go read a journal dude. Get a clue that Big Pharma dilutes concentrations to make things out to be inefficient. You haven't a clue about medicine. You just puppet what you hear because you are too lazy to do any real research. Grow up and stop listening to others and do your own homework.

[John Doe]

Hm. Perhaps you should. You have zero knowledge of medicine. Neither does this guy. You're own ignorance is your downfall. You are ignorant fool. I don't have time to argue anymore with you idiots. You haven't the slightest clue as to the latest research being done with DNA. I used to try and educate idiots like you, but now I realize that the best thing I can do is to just remain quiet and let you believe what you do. You are your own worst enemy. Good luck.

[tellnet]

Get an education

[murdocha]

What is real medicine curing? Let's see: tuberculosis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, gonorrhea, any bacterial illness you care to name, previously deadly conditions like appendicitis, ectopic pregnancies and obstetric hemorrhage.

The North American lifespan has increased from 48 years to 77.7 years in just over 100 years. When was the last time you heard someone die of tertiary syphilis, diphtheria or rheumatic heart disease?

What has homeopathy done? Magic water.

We win again.

[murdocha]

Man, if ignorance truly is bliss, you're the happiest dipshit in the world.

Wow, someone came to talk to the UN? Really? Which conference and which session would that be? Lots of batshit crazy people have talked at the UN, shit man, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il have both spoken to councils on Democracy, think that makes them experts?

Jefferson said: "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions", and with this in mind I ridicule your comment.