Mass Homeopathy Overdose

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[Amygdala100]

@Nydracommander Blinkered opinions will only result in fewer freedoms for the masses. You are one who is a” victim” of propaganda. Thanks to my “conventional” doctor, who has liberated me; I will continue to use the medicine of heads of state, royalty and world elite people. I’ve illuminated myself with the “accurate knowledge,” above and beyond your mumbo jumbo.

[TheAcquistocialis]

very nice explanation!

[Nydracommander]

@angomako you should really look these things up for yourself if you have such questions. Google and wikipedia are right there. There are many factors i can't all list here, look them up. in summary, placebo in animals and plants is due to how the handler treats the animal differently because it is sick. reporter bias is also present. placebo is a very general term and refers to any beneficial effect that occurs when any treatment is given, even if the treatment doesn't work.

[angomako]

@Nydracommander

how can placebo work on plants and animals?

the whole point of placebo is fooling the pacient-so he wouldn't know if it is real med or sugar pill, therefore exploring the extent and power of pacient's suggestion.

How can this work on-animals or plants???

[Amygdala100]

Research data is available in The Lancet Linde, K. et al. (1997). "Are the clinical effects of homeopathy placebo effect? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials." Lancet vol. 350 pp. 834-843. The trend of the studies is that homeopathy is effective above placebo and requires further study.

[Amygdala100]

@Nydracommander 70% PATIENT SATISFACTION RATE, where the difficult to heal cases-individuals who have first sought conventional help-placebos wouldn’t help- when conventional drugs were used unsuccessfully; referrals to the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital are the chronic and complicated cases- they could no longer be helped by conventional drugs, so their GP’s refer these patients to other qualified doctors working within an NHS homeopathic setting-homeopathy is a success for the chronically ill!

[Nydracommander]

@Amygdala100 i've looked into that "study" and is was horribly flawed in the most basics of scientific study: no randomization, no placebogroup, no baseline comparison. a recent review in the Lancet (one of the most prestigious scientific journals) of 110 homeopathy trials, showed that homeopathy is nothing more than placebo. i suggest you look it up on pubmed: "Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy."

[Amygdala100]

@Nydracommander The Bristol Homeopathic Hospital carried out a study published in November 2005 of 6500 patients receiving homeopathic treatment. There was an overall improvement in health of 70% of them. Research this it was published in the mainstream media here in the UK!!

[Nydracommander]

@Amygdala100 'don't lie" uhmm..excuse me? i suggest you stop lying and inventing numbers. "70% of patients..." That's an outright lie. I suggest you consult the us national library of medicine (pubmed). i can't post articles, youtube cencors those links. why should i lie? i'm just stating what science has concluded. homeopathy does nothing more then placebo, it's proposed mechanisms contradict everything we know about chemistry and physics. that's just the way it is, i can't help it.

[Amygdala100]

@Nydracommander Don't lie; it's been officially reported that within the UK alone 70% of patients have been made well through homeopathic medicine. Patient satisfaction discredits your comments. We don't need the petrolchemical industry to rule us with their toxic druggery and money greed, whilst heads of state and royalty are recipients of the best medicine in the world. 

[Nydracommander]

@Amygdala100 why do you make me repeat myself? placebo does work on animals and plants. Also: meta-analyses of well performed, large scale homeopathy studies have shown no difference between homeopathy and placebo. On top of that, homeopathy working would violate fundamental laws of chemistry and one of the basic principles of medicine: dose dependant effects. if homeopathy did actually work, it would be widely used in hospitals. But it doesn't work, i'm sorry if you really believed in it.