Hilarious UK Homeopath Squirms

After a damning undercover investigation found 10/10 homeopaths giving murderously stupid advice on malaria prevention, spokesperson Melanie Oxley performs bonkersly on Newsnight. She deteriorates towards the end.

Watch the undercover footage here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/36819...

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[rossini55]

"just becoz scientists cant prove homeo effects doesnt mean it is a fake"

You have just committed the cardinal sin of 'Shifting of the Burden of Proof' a standard logical fallacy.

Sceptics do not have to prove homeo is fake, it is the responsibility of those making the claim that it works to provide evidence. Claiming something as true just because it hasn't been proved to be false is running from your responsibility to provide evidence to support your case.

So, yes, you DO have to prove it.

[Stuart Scanlan]

So you admit that homeoquackery does not work for malaria. So it's a short route to understand that homeoquackery doesn't work for anything......AT ALL!

"That's not for me to say." Come on, grow a spine and and deal with any members of your society who appear to be quacks. It won't take long to work out who they are, just look at the entire membership and ban the lot!

Bashing a 30C dilution does not add energy

Water DOES NOT have memory

Homeopathy DOES NOT work for ANYTHING as all

Scammers

[Mick Andrews]

Simon Singh should debunk the bloke who cut his hair claiming to be a barber.

[Rhaegarion]

Nothing will change, the disease would just progress. Homeopathy isn't just the idea of taking what causes an illness to cure it, it goes one better than that lunacy, they then dilute the solution to a minimum of 1 : 1X10^30. That water is then added to a sugar tablet/lactate and then marketed as a cure.

When somebody takes a homeopathic remedy they aren't taking poison, they are just taking nothing, doing nothing and thats why they harm themselves through it.

[dec20056]

So if i get an illness that causes high blood pressure and then take something that causes high blood pressure then i will be cured?

I don't think so... more like my veins will explode and ill die of brain hemorrhages.

[mardlinator]

same as me then :3

[mardlinator]

gat some water, call it the elixir of life, bottle it and sell it at £2000/ml and say thats not scamming

[Rob Dawson]

placebo effect. :p it's not 100% useless

[BOBBY SINGER]

arguing is a sign of joblessness mate.....thats what i understood after arguing with some real jobless losers....

So you are a fan of star wars.....

looking at the pp i can say you are a fan of Darth wadar

[Matthew Moakes]

HEY! I'll have you know I'm arguing like a procrastinating idiot who's avoiding the dissertation he desperately needs to work on, being a jobless loser has nothing to do with it.

[BOBBY SINGER]

see even you agree....whats the point of arguing like a bunch of jobless losers when we can talk about something else

[Matthew Moakes]

Personally I'd categorize the last few comments as trading put downs rather than actually arguing, but fair enough, it's a waste of both our times.