Comments on: Homeopaths Changing Stories

By: Au Revior, Paula Ross | The Quackometer

Au Revior, Paula Ross | The Quackometer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:52:17 +0000

[...] cure cancer. The conference gave a platform to these bizarre and dangerous views. It was becoming quite clear that the homeopaths really did believe that their sugar pills could cure anything, but that they [...]

By: Curing Homeopathy | The Quackometer

Curing Homeopathy | The Quackometer — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:17:57 +0000

[...] offering anti-malaria advice led to the Society being prepared to directly misrepresent their own actions to the papers. They were also last year promoting homeopathic intervention in HIV people in Africa. [...]

By: Mojo

Mojo — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:20:00 +0000

Have the Newsnight ten been publicly identified so that we can check for ourselves what bodies they are registered with?

By: Svetlana

Svetlana — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:20:00 +0000

Until you show REAL harm of homeopathic cure of malaria (and other dangerous diseases) you can’t stop homeopaths. You write that homeopathic cure of malaria is a killing. Show that it is really KILLING. Where is statistics of death cases? Show that those death cases are result of homeopathic practice. Your criticism remains idle talks until you show it. And homeopaths use this weak side of you and continue their black business. Your (our!) fight turns out useless.
You know me. I am not quack. I am “on your side of barricades”. And when I say that “it is necessary to show”, I truly know that it is possible to show.

By: Le Canard Noir

Le Canard Noir — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:47:00 +0000

You may well be right and that is a reasonable interpretation. It is difficult to tell what the motives were for the exclamation.

What is beyond doubt is that the Society have never explicitly said that what these homeopaths were doing is wrong. And it is easy to show that many senior figures within SoH believe it to be ‘absolutely’ right. The fact that Jayne must have seen the transcripts and believes that no harm was being done would strongly suggest that she too thinks that taking sugar pills to prevent malaria is perfectly reasonable.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:40:00 +0000

“When Professor Colquhoun pointed out that homeopaths were handing out sugar pills for malaria prophylaxis. Jayne Thomas responded enthusiastically with one word, “Absolutely!” This appeared like nothing short of an enthusiastic endorsement of the practice.”

I’ve listened to that part of the interview several times. I hear her say “Absolutely!” as affirmation of Prof Colquhoun’s description of malaria as “a serious disease”.

It would be interesting to know how other listeners heard/interpreted that section.