- see the miilions benfitted from Homoeopathy and then speak-

I have not seen these millions, but from your comment I infer you have. If so, please share your data with us, this is a large enough dataset that it would resolve all the conflicts in (and outside) this forum.

Seriously though if you click onto the following on my site you will find that I am in fact doing my best to instigate some experimentation that would meet your approval. It is difficult. Some homeopathic researchers choose to ignore me, some have said it would be just a gimmick. Some have said it is an excellent idea but would require considerable expense and organisation. It is very frustrating!

http://www.minervabooks.co.uk/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=241&products_id=392

PS Gantlord seems eager to hear that homeopathy is suffering. If he goes to the Companies House website he could check out for himself to see if turnover at homeopathic pharmacies is nose-diving.(Ainsworths, Nelsons, Helios) He will in fact find it is remarkably steady.
I suspect getting rid of homeopathy will not be that easy as it is a grassroots thing. Closing down NHS hospitals won't change much. Pulling down churches wouldn't stop people reading the Bible either!
Few scientists understand human nature which is why so many are appallingly inadequate artists, healers and musicians. You can often tell them by the way they dress! But don't take this personally please !

Despite your eagerness for amateurish private detective work, you have obviously failed to read my ‘about’ pages that answer your childish questions. My employment status has nothing to do with this blog. I have declared that I receive no financial reward for my work or any external inducement to write what I write. All my own work, I am afraid, in my own time. It’s a hobby. The only reward in kind I get is from my web hosts, Positive, who have chosen to support my work out of a sense of wider public duty, by hosting me for free.

The exams I have sat also have no bearing on my arguments here. Homeopathy is still nonsense despite my lack of a made-up diploma in the subject.

You may well say that I cannot criticise homeopathy if I have not studied it for X years. Well I can be sure that Bertrand Russell’s tea pot does not exist either without having a PhD in Cosmic Crockery Studies. The little boy did not go to classes in Imperial Invisible Textiles to say the Emperor had no clothes. The answer to this charge is the same answer as Richard Dawkins gives in his book The God Delusion. He does not need to have studied theology for decades to realise the foundations of the subject are missing. You are a fool to discuss the wallpaper in the attic of a house when the foundations are not solid. Homeopathy is thoroughly implausible and the totally of the evidence shows it is a placebo treatment. Simple. In fact, I would say that all training in homeopathy is bogus as none of it embraces rigorous academic standards of evidence and reason. In fact, it undoubtedly trains its poor students to reject reason.

If you want to indulge in gossipy speculation about me then fine, but you loose the right to be taken seriously. The future of homeopathy will be decided by adults. That so many homeopaths prefer to engage in idle conspiracy theorising rather than tackle the issues being raised ensures that the further decline of their shabby trade is inevitable. It is time for some brave homeopath to realise this and lead their profession into the world of reality. I somehow doubt that will happen though.

How’s business? Noticed a dip in sales that’s set you off on this little crusade, or are you so happy in your work that you wanted to share your joy with us?

But by thinking you can post what you believe to be personal biographical information in an attempt to win arguments, you demonstrate a complete lack of judgement and an inability to take part in grown up criticism.

I would be quite within my rights to ban you from my blog, but your posts add much comedic value here so I will not. But you have lost the right to post uncensored material – and that is something I invoke very rarely. Your post has been deleted and further posts will be allowed only of they allow me to laugh at you.

Your central problem appears to be that you cannot comprehend how posting a blog entry of 500 words a week can take anything less than a full time career funded by conspiratorial forces. In your imagination you can only conceive of vested interests working overtime to destroy your little secret. The truth is that a few hours a week and use of google tools is all it takes to mock your deluded trade – deservedly. One can achieve great things by giving up watching Eastenders.

you’re talking to everyone here. Because I posted in this back in November, everything you write comes to me as a little email, addressed from you to me. This is like a little living room, for like minded people to sit around the fireside discussing what interests them. In this case, the pseudoscience that is homeopathy.

After conversation had died down, and we slumped asleep in our chairs after one too many ports, suddenly you came blundering in with a menacing tone, talking about deep-fried duck and hinting “I know where you live”.

If you think Andy knows who you are, why don’t you just tell us anyway?

The truth to this website is as plain as day. Andy Lewis is one of many thousands incensed by quackery. He simply happens to possess the technical skills, tenacity, rationality and patience to do something about it.