Comments on: Can We Trust Homeopaths to Accredit Their Own Training?

By: Pseudoscience homeopathy can get you a health sciences degree at Australian universities. The end of the world is nigh! « Sans Science

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:24:18 +0000

[...] did in the UK, to publicly shame the universities into closing the courses down and to show how dangerous they [...]

By: How to Spot Bad Regulation of Alternative Medicine. | The Quackometer

How to Spot Bad Regulation of Alternative Medicine. | The Quackometer — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:26:58 +0000

[...] The report on the consultation from the Department of Health [pdf]suggests that there was a consensus amongst the majority of responders that this was the right move. Of course, the majority of responders were desperate herbalists trying to cling onto their income. I expect that the usual mistake was being made of using that practitioners of alternative medicine are experts in the subject when the reverse is true (for reasons I spell out here: When the Regulator Believes in Fairies, Who Protects the Public?) The real experts in medical care and regulatory matter, the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges, were dismissed as a ‘minority’ voice in the summary – and indeed, views were published from the herbalists that such voices would be protecting their own interests. And again, the mistaken view that a well-trained quack is safe quack won the day when the exact opposite is the case: such people are thoroughly bought into their cults and made impervious to evidence and reason. (See my report on how homeopaths were taught to mislead their clients doctors’ about compleence with treatments for communicable diseases: Can We Trust Homeopaths to Accredit Their Own Training?) [...]

By: The Media Code for Homeopaths | The Quackometer

The Media Code for Homeopaths | The Quackometer — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:13:43 +0000

[...] doctors. The denigration of mainstream medicine is routine and I have uncovered how homeopaths are taught to mislead doctors as to their true motives when treating notifiable [...]

By: Why NHS Homeopathy Must End | The Quackometer

Why NHS Homeopathy Must End | The Quackometer — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:26:54 +0000

[...] corrupted by the financial power of pharmaceutical companies. Homeopaths are taught that it is acceptable to conspire with their patients to deceive their doctors if it ensures they will enable further homeopathic [...]

By: LJH

LJH — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:16:20 +0000

Just to reiterate how extremely serious it is for a TB patient to interrupt a course of antibiotic drug treatment.

This is worth spelling out absolutely explicitly - the resulting drug resistance does not only "stand a high chance of killing someone with TB" although that would be bad enough in the case of what is now a highly-treatable illness from which people can make pretty much a full recovery.

Interrupting treatment also raises the possibility of allowing drug-resistant strains of the illness to enter the general population - through simple methods like coughing, sneezing or talking - and to ultimately cause a new TB epidemic. That could in turn be hard to treat with the cheapest and most effective available antibiotics.

"In the notes, H appears to conspire with the patient to only take rifampicin, which can colour urine red, and another drug which may show up in a urine test, to convince the doctors that the treatment regime was being adhered to."

I was also very interested in the fact that the homeopath, who presumably is contemptuous of science-based medicine, still appeared to have such a comprehensive understanding of the drug treatments that they knew how to circumvent medical checks.

The consequences of the actions described above are severe enough if those were carried out on a single occasion and affected one individual.

If it is established that this has happened repeeatedly, it should be sufficient grounds to get every homeopath on this bloody island shut down with immediate effect.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:25:54 +0000

How about coming out with "Woo Water" containing DHMO (Dihydrogen Mono-Oxide) (see DHMO.org)? This marvelous substance recreates all the properties of homeopathic medicines in a single elixir. Truly the "Philosopher's Stone" of alt-med.

By: Martinus

Martinus — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:43:18 +0000

I don't know about the money but I suppose that on good homeopathic principles the shortest courses are most effective.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:51:59 +0000

From the Daily mash, the only truthful news site on the net:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/ten-in-ten-homeopathic-prescriptions-contain-mistakes-200912032281/

By: Phil H

Phil H — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:46:07 +0000

I, also, am tempted to take a course. The problem is time and money; I've occasionally (usually while reading DC's blog) toyed with the idea of setting up some organisation where those who can spare the latter can fund those who can spare the former in an effort to uncover exactly what is going on in these courses. Amethysts emitting high yin energy is farcical, but this (and AIDS / vaccine denialism) is tragic and dangerous. It would be good if more resources could be brought to bear to uncover such teaching and practice.

By: GRUMPY

GRUMPY — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:49:07 +0000

Zero chance of this ending in court Wendy. Who could possibly sue you or the duck?
You seem very hurt even after 10 years- I hope writing all this helps you get over it.
I understand that you still use homeopathy? So why not try the Andy Lewis Homeopathic Remedy making method for a remedy.
Take a bottle of blank pills. Label it Sepia 10M or Nat Mur 10M if you like (you will know what I mean)and bingo.