--- On Wed, 7/15/09, isouza <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Homeopathy requires an individualised treatment. Therefore, patients
> cannot be subjected to double-blind trials.
>
This is exactly the kind of convenient cop out that tells us why this practice
is fundamentally unscientific. A double-blind experiment is the essence of
scientific objectivity. Without it the subjective biases that are rampant among
observers and the observed cannot be ruled out. Faith-based illusions and
delusions cannot be dispelled. No dispassionate critical assessment is
possible. No scientific fact can be ascertained. No objective evidence can ever
be obtained. This outdated idiosyncratic fabrication of homeopathy is doomed to
the same fate as astrology and witchcraft, which are also claimed to be
individualized rituals impervious to double-blind randomized controlled
observations.
The outlandish claims of cures made in the above post have no basis in reality.
Edzard Ernst has examined all the existing hodgepodge literature on homeopathy
inside out. No treatment has been found to be effective by any objective
measure. The above cop out ensures that none will. Despite the empty
braggadocious pronouncements, no effects of any kind have ever been
reproducibly recorded on any measurable attribute of the human immune system.
Cheers,
Santosh
