Comments on: £10,000 if you can show homeopathy works

By: Alternatives to Medicine: homeopathetic junk. « Shanghai Sigrid

Alternatives to Medicine: homeopathetic junk. « Shanghai Sigrid — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:09:47 +0000

[...] £10 000 if you can show that homeopathy works [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:00 +0000

Homeopathy on animals: The placebo effect is still at work but not on the dumb animal. Bill.

By: Svetlana

Svetlana — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:07:00 +0000

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402632

By: Nash

Nash — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:31:00 +0000

Over 20 years ago I was seriously into astrology and I was doing a horoscope for a work collegue, Whilst I was doing the chart, she had an accident and ended up in a wheelchair. There was nothing in her chart to indicate anything like happening at all. I consulted with some other astrologers and none of them seemed bothered by this and one of the explanations given to me by another astrologer was that “the stars may not choose to alwyas reveal their secrets”. I pointed out to him that rather undermines all of astrology, as how could you be sure about anything? I concentrated on astronomy which is much more interesting.

By: obscured by clouds

obscured by clouds — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:20:00 +0000

*maybe there is more to this placebo story*

well, astrology has been debunked consistently for years and yet remains popular…their argument being that a negative result proves nothing, because what they do is ‘beyond science’…. I suspect the same mechanism might keep homeopathy going for a while longer…

By: Gram

Gram — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:32:00 +0000

Perhaps not – I think it has been demonstrated before that the placebo effect seems to work even if the receiver of the bogus intervention is aware that the treatment contains no active substance or useful methodology (can anyone remember that study?)

But I’ve heard it is true that an outright negative attitude to a treatment can seem to have the opposite effect to placebo, i.e. reduce the interventions effectiveness.

By: Chemist

Chemist — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:50:00 +0000

Just about everybody in the UK must now have heard the relentless placebo arguement against homeopathy. If it is just placebo then surely homeopathy will now rapidly decline? If after all this adverse publicity homeopathy continues to be used by millions then maybe there is more to this placebo story.

By: Le Canard Blanc

Le Canard Blanc — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:49:00 +0000

Thankyou Mojo,very enlightening,I shall pass it on.(caps unlocked)

By: Mojo

Mojo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:49:00 +0000

shpalman: “But it just occurred to me, regarding Anonymous’s “energy healer in Wexford!!!!!”: since when was homeopathy anything to do with energy healing?”

Homoeopathy is often claimed to be “energy medicine” (when it’s not being “quantum” or “memory of water”, or whatever). See an example (RSHom, by the way) from the first page of a Google search:

http://www.chihom.co.uk/energy_medicine_news.html

Of course, the term “energy medicine” doesn’t really mean anything…

By: Mojo

Mojo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:42:00 +0000

See above, and note that there are very few published RDBPC trials of veterinary homoeopathy, and none that show that it works.

Oh, and press the caps lock key on your keyboard (once only) before posting again.