Thursday
21Jan2010
Will You Participate In The 10:23 Protest?
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 8:43AM
On January 30, 2010 at 10:23 a.m. several dozen (or perhaps even a few hundred) people calling themselves “homeopathic skeptics” or “consumer advocates” plan to protest outside the UK’s largest pharmacies to protest what they consider the chain’s hypocritical practice of selling homeopathic remedies even after an executive with the chain admitted that they don’t actually believe the remedies work.
According to the official protest website, one of the activities will involve the swallowing of entire bottles of homeopathic remedies to prove that even a massive “overdose” is completely incapable of “activating” anything in the body.
Does such a stunt interest you at all? Will watching someone swallow an entire bottle of something that homeopaths already agree can’t hurt you change your mind about homeopathy?
And what about the pharmacy chain’s role in all this? Do the powers that be at Boots have a responsibility to remove unproven but profitable homeopathic remedies? Do we really want to start demanding that our retail stores save us all from our own stupidity? If so, why aren’t they protesting colon cleansers? What about castor oil—often sold for something known as the “castor oil flush”?
Finally, what about the “delay of treatment” argument? Is the fact that someone might go to a homeopath before a mainstream physician really a good reason to outlaw “remedies” used by millions of people around the world?
Tell us what you think about the upcoming 10:23 protest. Will you go?
According to the official protest website, one of the activities will involve the swallowing of entire bottles of homeopathic remedies to prove that even a massive “overdose” is completely incapable of “activating” anything in the body.
Does such a stunt interest you at all? Will watching someone swallow an entire bottle of something that homeopaths already agree can’t hurt you change your mind about homeopathy?
And what about the pharmacy chain’s role in all this? Do the powers that be at Boots have a responsibility to remove unproven but profitable homeopathic remedies? Do we really want to start demanding that our retail stores save us all from our own stupidity? If so, why aren’t they protesting colon cleansers? What about castor oil—often sold for something known as the “castor oil flush”?
Finally, what about the “delay of treatment” argument? Is the fact that someone might go to a homeopath before a mainstream physician really a good reason to outlaw “remedies” used by millions of people around the world?
Tell us what you think about the upcoming 10:23 protest. Will you go?
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10:23, homeopathic 10:23 in News Tuesday
19Jan2010
437 People Injured or Killed By Homeopathy, Says Blogger
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:31AM
The guy behind whatstheharm.net has a list of 437 folks whom he claims have been injured or even killed by homeopathy. Some of people this site profiles were almost certainly already at the end of their lives and probably turned to homeopathy as a last-ditch effort. We’ve all heard, of course, about Coretta Scott King’s death in Mexico. Still others died after battling incurable diseases like HIV or AIDS.
In some of these cases you have to stop and say, “Hey, wait a minute. If homeopathy obviously wasn’t working, why did those folks continue to use it?” But some of the cases presented are truly heartbreaking. Perhaps the worst are those of children whose parents insisted upon treating with homeopathy to the exclusion of anything even resembling “modern” medicine. Story after story relates cases of children who died of malnutrition because their parents insisted upon clinging to a system that obviously wasn’t working.
Whether you believe in homeopathy 100% or you’ve come to this site as a confirmed skeptic, the homeopathy section over at whatstheharm.net makes for some pretty powerful reading.
In some of these cases you have to stop and say, “Hey, wait a minute. If homeopathy obviously wasn’t working, why did those folks continue to use it?” But some of the cases presented are truly heartbreaking. Perhaps the worst are those of children whose parents insisted upon treating with homeopathy to the exclusion of anything even resembling “modern” medicine. Story after story relates cases of children who died of malnutrition because their parents insisted upon clinging to a system that obviously wasn’t working.
Whether you believe in homeopathy 100% or you’ve come to this site as a confirmed skeptic, the homeopathy section over at whatstheharm.net makes for some pretty powerful reading.
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whatstheharm.com, whatstheharm.net in News Monday
18Jan2010
Homeopathy Is Just "Energy", Says "Expert"
Monday, January 18, 2010 at 11:40AM Samuel Hahnemman, the founder of homeopathy, believed that his remedies work much like modern-day vaccines. Use a lot of the “active” ingredient and you have a disease; use just a tiny volume of the “active” ingredient and you “train” the immune system to attack the disease.
But Hahnemann—who believed very much in the scientific method of his day—developed his theories before the widespread acceptance of something called Avogadro’s law. The scientist Avogadro forever changed science by working out a formula that allowed scientists to measure things previously though unmeasurable—like how many atoms of belladonna would be in a single “dose” of a homeopathic remedy after the belladonna had been diluted hundreds (or even thousands) of times.
No longer could homeopaths claim that tiny “doses” worked to stimulate the body’s immune system because scientists could definitively prove that there simply weren’t enough atoms of the “active” ingredients to go around. Homeopathy had to come up with a new explanation and it had to come up with one quick.
Enter Dr. Charlene Werner, who in this video, explains that homeopathy doesn’t need “mass” to work. It simply needs vibrational energy.
Enjoy.
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