Comments on: Britain’s New Secretary of Wishful Thinking

By: Pacal

Pacal — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:14:43 +0000

I guess I wasn’t clear. What I meant to say was that over 10% of the Homeopathic “medications”, were not even being touched or otherwise infused with even the water with “memory” and thus should not work at all.

I agree I should have put “active ingridient” in quotation marks.

By: Bradley A. Skene

Bradley A. Skene — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:21:49 +0000

You made my heart beat faster there for a minute with your link to the British veterinary voodoo society. There was a reference there to an article on the manufacture of ancient Greek voodoo dolls (kolossoi, really) that I didn’t know,and from 1996. How could that be, I thought? But it turned out to have been written by a ceremonial magician rather than a scholar, with an eye towards his professional practice. Surprisingly, he had a nice bibliography. Such people usually don’t go deeper than Crowley.

By: Bradley A. Skene

Bradley A. Skene — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:16:52 +0000

Actually, no homeopathic substance (I won’t call them medicines) has any active ingredient by design. They are purposefully diluted somewhere between 1 molecule per volume of the pacific ocean, and one molecule per set of molecules larger by orders of magnitude than the total number of atoms in the universe.

By the way they got the dilution bit form Paracelsus, and in his day it made perfect sense. He was a battle field surgeon, and he observed that if an open would was poulticed with 1 drop of medicine, it healed much better than if poulticed with a pound of medicine, and made the deduction from that t that less was more effective. Of course the medicine was horse manure concerning which doctors in the 16th century hypothesized would draw the putrefaction out of the wound and into itself (like to like). And I can tell you, I want the horse manure in my wounds to be at about 1000C.

By: Pacal

Pacal — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:13:02 +0000

When Homeopaths discuss water having ‘memory’, I lose my abiloity to take anything they say seriously. Further the utterly blase response Homeopaths had to the discivery a few years ago that a manufacturer of Homeopathic medicine was selling the stuff in which over 10% of the bottles of Homeopathic pills didn’t have any ‘active’ ingredient in them says an awful lot.

Oh and the arguement that Homeopathic medicine becomes more effective the more diluted it is, is risible to the point of hysterical laughter.

By: mycoignofvantage

mycoignofvantage — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:10:37 +0000

I have been a massage therapist since 1998 and while I am American, I have family from and in England who work in their Health Care system. My American university is starting what will be called an ‘Integrative health Masters program in 2013. Massage Therapy has suffered greatly from its association with CAM. We are the first group trotted out when making claims for CAM’s effectiveness. Homeopathy is somthing entirely different from CAM as I see it but many in health care and in fields like your own that think you know something about CAM therapies confuse the two. It is a pervasive problem and I find it deeply disturbing to see this equation being made in England. I feel quite certain they are including massage with homeopathy. As there is a drive both stateside and ghlobally for integrative care I must state that I think that it will only usher in a new era of social engineering and that this is the real goal. Period. The CULTURE of CAM is seen as a problem where profits and modernization are concerned. What better way to break its back and that of the people by setting them up for a fall?