Andy Lewis & Simon Singh discuss homeopathy & the 10:23 campaign for Center for Inquiry.

Simon Singh (author of 'Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial') and Andy Lewis (of http://www.quackometer.net) discuss the homeopathic overdose event organised by the 10.23 campaign (http://www.1023.org.uk), on 30th January 2010 in Red Lion Square, Holborn, London.

Thanks to Dr Stephen Law of CFI London (http://www.cfilondon.org) for the footage.

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[sumitdhawan]

homoepathy works ... the thing which u don knw about homoeopathy is that it works on a priciple of "similia similibus curantur" i.e likes are cured by likes .... every medicine be it homoeopathic or allopathic has primary and secondary sympotoms .... homoeopathy brings cure in the secondary action whereas other medicines might bring teporary releif immidiately after consumption and secondarily the actual symptoms reapear ....

TRY IT AND THEN TALK ....

[TheSkepticMag]

@sumitdhawan Thanks for the comment. Could you point me towards any good quality research papers which supports this? I'm certain some people do find homeopathic remedies helpful but individual effects are less reliable scientifically. Just as groups of people are involved in clinical trials for traditional medicine, so testing of homeopathic remedies should be subject to the same rigour.

[CyberSetan]

@DrNancyMalik BuLLSHIT~!!

[indoctus41]

Simon Singh's idea of labeling all health products for what they do is a good idea. Perhaps McNeil Pharmaceuticals would have then been forced to put on their Zomax label that it could kill you.

Good idea.

[indoctus41]

The thing about Andy and his crowd is that what they consider quackery never translates into attacking anything in conventional medicine. I even tried to point out some of this quackery on his blog but it was too much for him and he had to block me, after of course numerous meaningless threats to do so.

[indoctus41]

@kickofighto A meta-analysis from Australia looked at the effect of chemo-therapy on 20 cancers and found them to be essentially ineffective. Would you also consider the minimal success experienced in those fortunate few as a placebo effect?

[indoctus41]

@TheSkepticMag It's very difficult to create studies for homeopathy using conventional methods. That is because each case is treated uniquely. It is not the same as giving one drug to a thousand people for the same condition. That method would run against homeopathic protocol.

By the way the 'tests' on conventional medicine are funded by the very companies that make and profit from the products. How accurate are the results is anybody's guess.

[DrNancyMalik]

Real is scientific homeopathy. It cures even when Conventional Allopathic Medicine (CAM) fails. Evidence-based modern homeopathy is a nano-medicine bringing big results for everyone

[kickofighto]

@mrgodbehere

I totally agree! Placebo IS well documented to work and used to be used all the time. Doctors would prescribe magnesium supplements for loads of minor ailments. The thing is homeopathy makes placebo work quite well, it's a well labeled placebo. Placebo doesn't work if you don't beleive it. Someone I know took homeopathic anti-malarials! She thinks that because she didn'tget malaria they worked and will get the same again next time!

[Amygdala100]

It was a scary situation for my mum to discover that I was severely allergic

to antibiotics, such as: penicillin etc. Fortunately, my Cambridge graduated GP prescribed me with a homeopathic alternative-Belladonna, during a nasty bout of mastitis; also, I've saved an abscessed tooth, thanks to homeopathy!