Putting S before CAM will make it to Serious Conventional Allopathic Medicine (SCAM).

Forgive me for neglecting your self imposed salutation but I can see no evidence on your web site that you actually ARE a doctor – neither a medical doctor nor a Ph.D from a real university.

Nice verbal play on redefining CAM. Alas you are seemingly unable to put the “S” in front of it as I am able to do for what your profess.

Could you possibly point me in the direction of any empirical evidence which shows that homeopathy works. It would be great if this evidence conformed to randomised blinded trials as I am sure this would prove the validity of all the wonderful claims you make on your website.

I would prefer proper research rather than anecdotal evidence if that is OK with you (I assume this exists as you seem very emphatic in your claims). I am not strong on anecdotal evidence as my granny claimed to have seen a ghost but I am not sure I believe her (and in any case she did drink a lot).

I have a very open mind and would welcome sight of such evidence. I have a first degree and three years Ph.D research so I might be able to understand your evidence. I certainly look forward to receiving it.

As an aside (and based on your assertion that “homeopathy cures”)I wonder if you let me know of any major diseases that homeopathy has eradicated from the world. Like you I am not a medical doctor but I believe there are some diseases (like smallpox) which conventional science/evidence based medicine seems to have pretty much eradicated. It would be really useful to understand how your profession has worked towards eradicating this sort of illness.

Look forward to hearing from you.

(I think this thread sadly traduces the Muppet Show. At least that was funny and made no paranormal, supernatural or metaphysical claims)

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The “Korsakoff Method”, for the uninitiated, means dumping the liquid contents of a vial and just putting in more liquid to pick up the residue on the vial walls without bothering to do anything like an accurate dilution. Clearly this is a great boon to productivity and no annoying messing about with checking whether the products still work when you completely alter the basis of their manufacture.

Yes, people, they just make this stuff up as they go along.

Top comment from Rob. I shall now always picture Hahnemann and his followers as an episode of Blackadder III, with Stephen Fry in Regency dress reciting Rob’s lines.

For some reason it reminds me of that famous quote about Hahnemann warning his followers not to carry homeopathic remedies in their waiscoat pockets “lest by over vigorous movement they might over-potentize the remedy” and endanger the patient. Ho ho.

Like many others, I suspect, I was unable to read any further in the Guardian article after the bit about succussion, because I was rolling on the floor in helpless laughter. That was after I’d drenched the table (and the wife) in coffee which came out of my nose when I read the relevant sentence.

Also very taken with Bench Scientist’s new use for the vortexer. Perhaps I should try making homeopathic remedies in the lab to sell to the students.

- Richard Dawkins