On 08/21/2014 12:14 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
On 08/21/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Doesn't your Royal Family use homeopathy?
Oh well, it must be true then. I suppose wearing a crown
makes you immune from errors of reasoning.
Well, I was kidding you, of course.
Even Turq once disagreed with Curtis anti-homeopathic stance
because he had actually found a homeopathic substance useful.
There's something to the science even if it twiddles the mind
of a high school trained scientist.
That's the point, there is nothing to the science. That's why
we do science, to work out what's real from what isn't,
there's nothing like blind testing to give the lie to dodgy
claims. Like we did with astrology and all sorts of other
nonsense. Check the periodic table posted by MJ earlier for
details.
:-D
Problem is the naysayers are "often reviewing a movie without
having seen it." These ideas sound wacky to them until the "white
coats" adopt it for their mainstream medicine (as has happened
with some of ayurveda).
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You actually can get homeopathy on the National Health in the UK
but there is a campaign to stop it as using tax payers money to
fund something you can demonstrate is ineffective when there are
so many people with health problems that simply drinking water
given to you by someone friendly won't cure, the money should go
to effective and tested treatments.
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I would say that until something is tested it shouldn't be
described as medicine (this happens here anyway) if ayurvedic
treatments survive double blind tests then yes, they should be
included in public health programmes. But as it is it's not a
system of knowledge but a set of folk beliefs, some of which are
known to be seriously dangerous. Testing is expensive though so I
fall back on my trusty old maxim: try ayurveda until there is
something wrong with you, then go see a proper doctor.
Sounds like you've been brainwashed by Big Pharma. Welcome to "Brave
New World" which is just what Huxley feared (in spite of those who think
he was suggesting it as a solution -- they seemed to have failed to read
the opening of his "Brave New World Revisited."
I guess you think that most MD's are geniuses instead of often just kids
of MDs who want to join the "family business" and make it through
medical school with help from dad or mum's influence on the dean. At
least that is often the way it goes in the US.
It's all about money and Big Pharma is just the the Military Industrial
Complex where lots of money is to be made at the cost of lives of the
general public. And BTW, some of Big Pharma's "wonder cures" have
proven to be ineffective too if not downright dangerous (Vioxx for example).
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On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:59 AM, "Share Long
sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Michael, are you being paid by Big Pharma?!
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:47 AM, "Michael Jackson
mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
What everyone on FFL needs on their wall
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Believe it or not, I don't really have a particular interest
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scabs of alt-med credulity.
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