Open-mindedness

Oh yeah, BigPharma... the alternative medicine market is a billion dollar industry. You can charge an awful lot of money from gullible people without having to do the tedious research real pharmaceutical companies have to conduct. After all, homeopathic medicine is just water.

Fact is, despite your anecdotal evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy, there is not one properly controlled double-blind study that supports this claim.

Homeopathy is just magic: Like cures like... any proof for that?

And "in all honesty" I don't really believe in treating every little cold or flu that comes along. Some infections, however, if left untreated, can cause lasting harm (ie-scar tissue from an ear infection reducing hearing) and I would find it prudent to treat. Treatment has not always been administered by me, either. Often it was given by my DOCTOR. Yes, a medical doctor who is able to prescribe drugs, but prefers homeopathy to drugs.

Well, I see these as two completely different things. And you might as well give up on "correcting" my point of view, for experience over a great many years has taught me of the effectiveness of homeopathy. Trust me, I do understand the significance of the placebo effect. I'm actually a clear thinking, educated individual! The allopathic community discounts homeopathy because it threatens their livelihood and their profits from drug sales.

"Homeopathy: A system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself." Compare that to "Placebo: Med an inactive substance or other sham form of therapy administered to a patient usually to compare its effects with those of a real drug or treatment, but sometimes for the psychological benefit to the patient through his believing he is receiving treatment."

If you cannot give evidence for or against something then it stops being a question of proof. Can't you see that science progresses only by the unknown, the ones who believe in God, goblins and ghosts just spur the scientists on with their 'faith' and mankind has always advanced this way.

When ppl say they believe in the supernatural they aren't saying it physicaly exists just as when people say they do not believe in ghosts aren't necessarily saying ghosts can't possibly exist.

I am not trying to be deliberately provocative, I'm only trying to correct your point of view. Your children were ill, and you treated them with homeopathy. In all honesty, whatever that had, they were going to make fine recovery anyway. What did they have? The flu? A cold? An infection!? These are all things that can get better with time.

I do not believe your anecdotes for that it contradicts what I have seen.
Why don't you give me a definition of homeopathy. Look it up right now. You obviously have no clue what it is.
I'm a psychologist, I have studied this, and I assure you homeopathy IS a placebo. It works EXACTLY like a placebo, and claims of its effectiveness beyond the placebo effect have been rejected by the medicinal science community.
While you're at it, you should investigate the significance of the placebo effect.

That may be a single definition of science, but I believe the context in which used in the video it takes upon the meaning "The use of the scientific method"

Um, no....it's not. While I agree that the mind can have a powerful effect on the body, homeopathy has nothing to do with the placebo effect. I have neither time nor space to regale you with all my amazing anecdotes, but if they were a result of the placebo effect, then I vote we throw out drugs and all take placebos! Wow....my babies must have had powerful minds! How is it that someone who doesn't understand that what they are taking is supposed to heal them can experience the placebo effect?