What Patrick means;
‘Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. A flukey coincidence occurred. I shall now ignore all the occasions on which nothing happened and trust my life to sugar pills.’

Numpty.

Absolutely true. No problem with that

“and why.”

Absolutely false. It is an idiotic thing to assert. You perfectly encapsulate the fallacious thinking that keeps the money flowing to the quacks.

Of course they can, but it is my body and I know what happened and why.

Exactly the same argument could be used for every antibiotic that anyone ever takes for tooth infection.

If you prefer the “deadly sugar pill” of a drug, that is your choice. And, your health and life also depends upon it. Unfortunately drugs are directly responsible for causing a massive number of deaths every year – the same cannot be said of homeopathic remedies.

Yes, tooth infections can spontaneously clear up and do so regularly. But it is common for such infections flare up periodically over time until it gets so bad that you have no choice but for it to be removed or you get seriously ill. People did die of this in the ‘olden days’.

So, your gamble. Did the magic sugar pill work? Or were you just seeing the normal course of the disease. Your health and even life depends on your answer.

It isn’t – it can be helpful, but unfortunately is too often manipulated to meet the needs of whichever pharmaceutical company is providing the funds.

I never had much joy with homeopathic remedies until about 6 months ago, when I had an infected tooth and severe toothache which had kept me awake for 3 days. I am averse to antibiotics, but fortunately my dentist was not so blinkered as most and after I said no, suggested I try a homeopathic remedy. The pain went after 45 minutes, just when I was convinced that it wouldn’t work, it just disappeared. The infection went within 2 days and a tooth that ‘had to be extracted’ is now still sitting happily in my mouth.

I’ve read all kinds of things about ‘placebo’ being the reason why, from even supposedly enlightened individuals, they just miss the point, as I guess most who view this blog will … because most are desperate to put down anyone with a belief that isn’t mainstream drug pushing.

Interesting that many, probably most if the truth is known, drug tests are a distortion of the facts to suit the required results. Sure there are quacks about, the problem is that most of them are supposedly qualified to administer death delivering drugs.

The results of science are the exact opposite of faith. Perhaps you would like to contemplate that the next time you are on an airplane and depending on the results of sound science and engineering to keep you alive and not on the unevidenced faith of postmodernist know-nothings.

Erm, which is very much the case of large biomedical pharmaceutical drug companies, but I don’t see you having a go at them! There is overwhelming evidence that drug companies control the research, production and dissemination of drugs (such as anti-retrovirals) in ways that maximise their profits rather than ensure good health provision for people, particularly in developing countries. They also invent diseases in order to create a demand for drugs that they produce – see debates on ‘pink viagra’ where women’s sexuality is presented as deviant in order to sell drugs. Whereas evidence of similar mal-practice on such a grand scale against homeopathy simply does not exist.