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This video investigates the claims of efficacy of Homeopathy. For further information on Homeopathy see the references section at the bottom of this video description. I will be putting further information on my website http://jasonlpsmith.googlepages.com/

Anyone is welcome to post comments, if you make interesting claims, please provide detailed reference for your claims so others can look it up. (Anyone who posts lots of comments for the purpose of pushing all other comments off the front page will be banned.)

The 3D animation was done in Blender, a brilliant open source 3D animation program. I learnt how to model the Earth from http://chamberlinproductions.110mb.com/mappedearth.html

The numbers in the bottom left of the video are for references if you want to look into the information for yourself (which I do recommend).

1. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1999/Vol77-No2/bulletin_1999_77(1)_160-166.pdf
2. MacLennan AH, Wilson DH, Taylor AW (1996). "Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Australia". Lancet 347 (9001): 569573.
3. http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/Hospital.aspx?id=RRV60
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
5. http://homeopathy.md/homeopathy-remedies-a-f/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory
11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water
12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial#Double-blind_trial
13. Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy. Aijing Shang, Karin Huwiler-Müntener, Linda Nartey, Peter Jüni, et al. The Lancet. London: Aug 27-Sep 2, 2005. Vol. 366, Iss. 9487; pg. 726, 7 pgs
14. http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/71/
15. http://www.badscience.net/?p=291
16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/5178122.stm
17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0c5yClip4o

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  • How does excactly placebo works?

  • @Rnt911 That is a good question. I don't know exactly how it works, it involes conditioning and expectations of the person receiving the placebo. It seems that the brain releases neurotransmitters such as dopamine when influenced by a placebo, which makes you feel better. But I'm sure it is far more complex than that brief explanation.

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  • Hahaha I love the woman at the end.

  • @kishan2000

    I notice that you have not provided a rebuttal to the topics covered in this video, you have only attempted to attack credibility by implying conflict of interest. This is commonly referred to as an "ad hominem" attack. I do not receive any money from drug companies.

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  • I remember that newsnight episode. Kirsty Wark tore them to shreds.

  • That was the funniest stand up material I ever head, awesome

  • the Laidy in the end of teh video was awesome.

  • men the asian doctor at the ned made me laught.........how can she be so fucking stupid and have a medical degree......

  • Time someone said something similar about chiropractic, another bogus science built upon quackery. Its a one trick therapy- all it has are subluxations (never proved) and dodgy x rays.

  • Did you hear about the homoeopath who died from an overdose of nothing

  • I have *never* seen a Homeopath walk away from an argument without looking like a total utter utter super moron.

    The only thing they have to go on are weak flawed cherry picked "studies" with unrepeatable results.

    I've come across every bullshit excuse under the sun. Some even bring in NMR's, E=mc2, and other fuzzy wuzzy pseudo scientific horse crap.

    Homeopathy is quack central.

  • @CreamyGoodnessX Wow. I was wondering what took you so long. Guess it was looking up the word 'vacuous'.

  • @indoctus41

    > You gave an intellectually vacuous argument, so I responded with an equally intellectually vacuous one of my own. So yeah, my "fuck you ass" still stands. Besides, I don't remember ever hiring you as my personal grammar tutor, and I can write my responses however the fuck I want, and if you have a problem with that... Well, that's your fucking problem. Get over it already, doucefuck.

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