Firstly, I only filter comments on posts older than 21 days. Earlier than that and post are not monitored. After than, I find most posts are either from spammers or from idiots just posting off topic. It saves me time. It is not censorship.

So, back to the idiocy. Yes, lots of babies do die who are being treated by regular medicine. The difference is that regular medicine gives net benefits. Homeopathy is an inert treatment, so any death is inexcusable. Especially where a real treatment was available. It is criminal negligence – as the judges have obiously agreed. The rest of your post is just meaningless mumbo jumbo and an attempt to create a straw man argument about real medicine that no medic would ever claim.

Should I have just deleted your comment? Perhaps on reflection I should have done.

For every Gloria Thomas out there who died at the hands of homeopaths, you can find at least ten babies who died at the hands of "regular" medicine. For every inflammatory story that hits the media about someone dying at the hands of alternative medicine, there are many stories, unreported, about people dying while in the care of so-called regular medicine. But since this form of treatment has been defined as "regular," their deaths are not travesties, just unfortunate parts of life.

The rise of a strictly biomedical focus, reducing human bodies to component parts that do not exist in relation to their other parts (for example, if you have problems with your liver, treat only your liver) makes no sense when you consider that a liver wouldn't exist without the other parts of the body. We've evolved a complex biological system, yet regular medicine and biomedical science treat them as distinct entities. This is ludicrous, idiocy and contrary to basic evolutionary thought, but it is taken as not only normal, but the only proper way to treat people.

So when launching attacks at quackery, look in the mirror, and tread softly.

The coroner found she had sufficient education to realize the treatment was bogus and therefore contributed to her own death…

She had three science degrees, but still she suspended her knowledge on the basis of a witch doctor, offering a natural herbal thyroxin replacement…

thyroxin can only come from an animal source, and my friend had embraced vegetarianism in spite of her education and so wanted a non animal solution.

the cult of pseudo science is lethal, when are going to see all witch doctors imprisoned for misleading and contributing to the deaths of people

this is all just so so sad……..
when will the killing end.