Comments on: Homeopathy really doesn’t work

By: Jim McBob

Jim McBob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:36:49 +0000

Anna,

How can you be sure it wasn’t your prayers that were finally answered and if so, why were you forsaken for all those years?

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:50:59 +0000

All I can say is thank you God! I prayed and prayed for years for a cure for my terrible depression. After getting insight and assistance, auram metallicum 30C several times in a week alleviated my suicidal ideation and depressive personality. I am a new person. Don’t believe the naysayers. If you hit the right remedy your life will be transformed. I am nearly 50 and I have never felt better or happier. You have nothing to lose. Go for it.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:01:17 +0000

@Shane Ad hominem attacks and insults? Wonderful! What a clear and useful argument to bring to the table. As to the fact that you never heard anyone say that homeopathy ruined their life…well, that’s probably because those with terminal illnesses who turned to this unholy-water bullsht didn’t make it to tell the tale. Homeopathy is a serious distraction from genuine medicine, even with its problems.

And, if I’m bored you must be really, really bored to bother visiting my blog and posting such a vacuous comment. Besides, I wouldn’t have to argue if fools with a belief in mystical claptrap didn’t keep turning up to toss in their tuppence worth to the debate, would I?

Do feel free to get back to us when you have some real evidence rather than hearsay for our readers to mull over. So to save us from any further boredom, I’m making this the last word on this page.

By: shane

shane — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:05:36 +0000

you must be very bored david to be sitting here on the internet arguing with people!….. one day when your old and sick and the doctor tells you that you have a sever illness and he/ she cant help you, perhaps go see a homeopath and you never know, it might actually help you (as it has help many many people throughout the world and who have told their story on your very web site)!!!! then what will you think about homeopathic medicine? will you think it still doesnt work just because you have carried on like an old women for all these years and been so negative to wards it? or will you start to be positive and listen to the stories people are telling you about how it has totally changed peoples lives for the better! i have never heard anyone ever say “OH…. homeopathic medicine has ruined my life!”…. but i have heard (many times) ” homeopathic medicine has changed my life (for the better”

By: Jim McBob

Jim McBob — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:28:25 +0000

“the drug companies don’t make any money out of it is whats behind it all.”

This comment begs for a reality check. Who do you think owns the homeopathic companies? The real drug companies! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out once you do the math.

Coke & Pepsi got into bottled water because it’s basically free & they can get a $1.00+ for 500ml. All because the average person doesn’t realize municipal water in most industrialized countries is safer than what humans consumed regularly up until 100 years ago. Something they and Brita, et al., are glad you haven’t figured out.

It didn’t take drug company beancounters long to work out that $25/25ml is 25 times what the soda makers were pulling in with the same costs…99% profit margins! It’s perfect; no R&D costs or Q/A required. Just open the taps, add a touch of odor to the bottle cap so people think there is something in it & slap on a sticker with pseudo Latin for labelling. They could even recycle all the mothballed bottling equipment they couldn’t use for modern medications since they don’t need child-proof safety caps, etc.

As someone else pointed out in another posting, “no side effects”; no kidding & no exposure to malpractice. After all, if you can’t prove what the magic ingredients are, you also can’t prove what they aren’t. If you sue one of these “doctors” for misdiagnosis or that the homeopathic “remedy” made you worse, what do you get? An admission of quackery or fraud which costs what, a slap on the wrist & a $1000 fine? This is still way cheaper than a multi-billion dollar Vioxx type pay out.

So turn on the taps & start watering the money tree!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:45:38 +0000

@Violet You can think what you want.

> I don’t go round telling you not to have all that poison and drug stuff.

No, but you do come on to someone else’s website leaving comments. Why did you bother, just don’t read my posts if you don’t like what they’re saying.

By: Violet

Violet — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:08:31 +0000

Honestly, so many people with no information! My father has survived 16 years with prostate cancer because hes been treated with homeopathy and nutritional support. But its not even about surviving, its about having quality of life. Whilst my uncles spent 4 years lay on the settee feeling ill for much of the time whilst on chemo etc, my father has been out dancing 5 times a week and swimming, feeling great. People can believe what they want, I don’t go round telling you not to have all that poison and drug stuff. Its up to you, it should be about freedom of choice. So leave each to their own. Perhaps the fact that the drug companies don’t make any money out of it is whats behind it all. Otherwise why would so many people be bothered? Just stick to your own world and we (the users of alternative medicines) will stick to ours.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:38:31 +0000

I totally disagree with this article. My mother had cancer and she would not have survived it for over 10yrs in remission without homeopathy.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:58:33 +0000

Prasad Reddy, so…. rather than science that was wrong and has over time become more and more correct, you would rather be involved with something that never changes and remains wrong forever. Rather than always striving to discover error and correct it, you would prefer to wallow in the same errors all your life.

Science isn’t a collection of knowledge. It is a toolkit, a method of sorting fact from fiction. The change that you redicule is the very thing that should be most admired about science. It is a body of knowledge constantly being refined by detecting and pruning out errors using the scientific method. We as humans keep trying to guess what the correct answer might be, and then use the tools of science to filter out the erroneous. That’s right, what science is BEST at is rejecting the wrong answer. Even when the right answer is not yet known, wrong answers can be reliably excluded. That is how it really works.

Homeopathy has been examined and found to be utterly and completely without merit. You cling to it like a religion…… or any of these other pseudosciences: astrology, phrenology, reiki, reflexology, graphology, alchemy, or orgone energy.

You need to learn a little about how easily we fool ourselves and how to reliably take and evaluate date and you just might escape this harmful fantasy that you keep you mind swaddled in. But I’m not holding my breath.

By: Prasad Reddy

Prasad Reddy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:45:47 +0000

You are very true, Stephan! homeopathic remedies should never cost more than a buck.
They are just water and alcohol – only base materials.We can’t find traces or molecules of the subject matter in them.Like remedy named – platinum metallicum – though started initially with traces of metal platinum, on successive dilutions, in potentized form, when final remedy concocted, it barely got any platinum molecules in it.

They should cost only in pennies, this charge is for efforts, bottling, labeling and marketing.
And they do cost in pennies in most countries, but in US and UK, it is a rip-off.

ONE THING untold in this article is that you see science as everything. like chemistry.
Time to time Science morphed itself(it will morph, it HAS to change),
Science initally told water as HO (1 Hydrogen to 1 Oxygen))only, then after more
accurate weighing equipment came in, they now measured it to H2O.
I do not like to subject our health, and the ‘ME’ to any morphing science, or budding allopathy.

Educate yourself online, see the successful recovery path taken by persons with same disorders;
see whether it fits you; thus you can avoid living with pestering side effects