Patrick (Moore, not Deacon),
I agree with your assessment that “if there is anything unscientific, it's blanket, unanalyzed statements about what is and what isn't science.” I assume that you are referring to what I said about homeopathy given that you make specific mention of it in your post. As I mentioned, the fundamental idea of homeopathy is that a substance becomes stronger as it becomes more dilute — often to a degree in which not even a single molecule of that substance exists in the final preparation of the “medicine”. That idea, to me, is implausible given what I think that I know about the natural world. Lots of ideas that seem implausible turn out to be true, so it is reasonable to require evidence to support my assertion that homeopathy works for nothing other than placebo. I have no intention of writing a treatise on the science of homeopathy to convince you, as many others have already done so. There have been numerous clinical trials and meta-analyses that examine the clinical effect of homeopathy which conclude that there is no evidence that homeopathy is effective. I will refer you to the report published by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia to peruse at your leisure (linked below). I hope that nothing that I said was in any way offensive. My re-reading of my post does not sound like it to me, but I am open to the idea that I am not the best judge of what is or is not offensive to others. In the absence of any rigorous positive data on the efficacy of homeopathy, though, I was compelled to offer a dissenting position on the subject on a public forum. You are correct that I should have included at least one reference in my initial post. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/images/nhmrc-information-paper-effectiveness-of-homeopathy.pdf Eric G@rs SF -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1b103b9a-2607-453f-aa7b-b75053da133d%40googlegroups.com.
