The man who overturned the entire world view of how we came about and you call him ‘an establishment clone’? That’s like saying Winston Churchill was a secret communist or sympathiser with Fascism.

Furthermore, whatever you ‘believe’ is besides the point. The facts are different:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

It has gone up nearly six. However, this does not take into account the deaths in childhood and the early years which have been reduced significantly. Modern medicine, science and engineering as well as education have improved early life expectancy enormously.

Additionally you completely ignore that the life expectancy following disease and illness has been immeasurably increased.

Any scientific or medical advance has a difficult birth, but the ability to replicate, reproduce and massively recreate the effects has eased it along the road to acceptance.

As Tim Minchin says “What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine!”

When there are multiple example of independent research to the same extent as there is with ‘real’ medicine and science, then homeopathy will quite easily be able to show it ‘just works’. You’ll find that the great majority of people are easily convinced by proof.

Only a small number require little.

To Dana Ullman,

I can completely concur.

My children were sick (vomiting etc) and I watched them, gave them fluids and miraculously they were cured. They’re too young to understand homeopathy and so it had nothing to do with a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I was amazed that plain household water had cured them, along with watching them (which was obviously important too). Then I realised something: the Sydney water supply comes from the dams. Dam water from rain. Rain from evaporation in the ocean and the ocean water…from the water we flush into the ocean from our houses.

Obviously, the more you dilute something the greater its potency. Thus, all the homeopathic treatments that had been flushed down the toilets around Australia had become more potent after going through the water cycle and then out of my household taps.

I’m astounded that this works so well and is free. Amazing. Truly amazing.

Naturally I told me friends and they’ve found the same thing. They also watched their children and I’m convinced by this evidence, that watching children has the capacity for increasing the effect.

Please take note of my research (I have a post-graduate research degree, by the way, as does my wife – she has two) and so my research is obviously well supported and thus a natural adjunct to your own work.

I require only a small regular payment and acknowledgement of my efforts.

Yours sincerely,

Patrick

My children were sick (vomiting etc) and I watched them, gave them fluids and miraculously they were cured. They’re too young to understand homeopathy and so it had nothing to do with a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I was amazed that plain household water had cured them, along with watching them (which was obviously important too). Then I realised something: the Sydney water supply comes from the damns. Damn water from rain. Rain from evaporation in the ocean and the ocean water…from the water we flush into the ocean from our houses.

Obviously, the more you dilute something the greater its potency. Thus, all the homeopathic treatements that had been flushed down the toilets around Australia had become more potent after going through the water cycle and then out of my household taps.

I’m astounded that this works so well and is free. Amazing. Truly amazing.

Naturally I told me friends and they’ve found the same thing. They also watched their children and I’m convinced by this evidence, that watching children has the capacity for increasing the effect.

Please take note of my research (I have a post-graduate research degree, by the way, as does my wife – she has two) and so my research is obviously well supported and thus a natural adjunct to your own work.

I require only a small regular payment and acknowledgement of my efforts.

Yours sincerely,

Patrick

One point – as far as I am aware the ’succussing’ (vigourous shaking, or “energising”) aspect of “dilution” is seen as critical to how strength is supposedly increased by every increase in such dilutions, by homeopaths – yet it never seems to enter in these long running face-offs.. why?

the research on the memory and other surprising aspects of water do not necessarily support those who argue for Homeopathy – but they do contradict what the cynical anti-quackery people tend to say they “know” because they have read all the scientific research ever done.

Recently, when the Cerne experiments suggested that Neutrinos may have defied C and place Einstein’s general theory in doubt – we had some then who merely dismissed it as “impossible” – but the genuine scientists remained sceptical – not aggressively cynical.

There are stranger things going on in the quantum / nanotechnology field than this “certainty of science” can hope to explain – so knocking quacks is one thing, (and let’s not forget to knock those quacks in the Pharmaceutical industry as well) dismissing them on the basis of “my knowledge of science proves this negative” is quite another…

Darwin’s backing for one angle or another is a rather sad appeal to authority – genius insight he may have had, authority on science of the 21st century he was not.