HIV Homeopathy Charity Facing Financial Crunch

I would be somewhat disappointed if bankruptcy finishes this scurrilous outfit, when it should have been closed down by the Charity Commission years ago.

Some good news-but as we know, since homeopathy is basically a religion, those of that disposition will simply move sideways to another foolishness.
And while I’m not on the subject-we don’t seem to have heard back from Gerard with his ‘evidence’ yet.
I’ve been holding my breath waiting for so long, I’ve just found out I’ve died.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!

There. That needed saying.

But, as Anonymous said, it would have been better if the Charity Commission had taken action and held the trustees to account.

It’s the usual problem of our Establishment taking a pathetically light-touch approach to the sugar retailers and their fellow-travellers.

Barrie, I only reply to intelligent people, those who can see common sense and are prepared to accept things they might not understand. You are only having fun and it seems that either you have taken this as a hobby because you have plenty of time to spare or you are on a wage by the opposition. Hahnemann did say” I let the armchair professors argue while I busy myself curing the sick”.
While you are wasting time arguing about nothing, why should I put myself on your level?
Homeopathy is making a comeback and all your arguments cannot prevent it. You have not provided a reply to any of the good, sound and factual arguments people have presented. The best you come back with is abuse and insult. I wonder if Andy Lewis is reading your comments. He should take them off line if he is true to his original purpose of starting this blog. No one is so blind as the one who will not see.
Don’t ask for a response from me. I only address people who want to be sensible.
Gerard

Get stuffed.

Not for the first time, since I started in my own little way to take on the magic thinkers, I have had it implied by a person of intellectual cowardice, not to say outright creepiness, that I am in the pay of dark forces, and that I refuse to answer points put to me.
I consider the position to be the opposite in the latter respect.
Let me try it another way.
If I were to ask a homeopath a simple question-say, ‘How is it that a substance can be diluted 100 times, yet be more powerful?’
Let’s say that this homeopath declined to answer this question, and so I asked it 100×100 times. And still no answer. So I asked it 100x100x100 times. Yet no answer. Even if I repeated this process 30 times with no answer.
Would that make the question’s potency, and its lack of answer, more powerful?

The thing is, also, that the charlatan Gerard is now trying to pretend that the reason he hasn’t produced his ‘evidence’ is that he won’t speak to people such as I, who are are only interested in taking the piss out of nitwits. But he didn’t promise to send the evidence to me. He promised to send it, specifically, to somebody else. A ‘Lady’, as I suspect he might call her. But either way, no ‘evidence’ seems to have surfaced. But as he said, it’s 10 years old, and it’s hard to find now on the Internet. And as I said, the Battle of Hastings is also 10 years old-if not more- but I can find that evidence enough.
Still, it’s probably there on paper somewhere, in one of his files, all mixed up with his evidence of unicorns.
I wish I thought all this were just silly foolishness, and had no consequence, but unfortunately we know that’s not the case.
How often do we find now that human evolution is an endless repetition of 3 steps forward, 2 steps back?

‘The charity Homeopathy Action Trust represents pretty much everything that is wrong with homeopathy in the UK today.’

Sorry to disagree with you Andy. Homeopathy represents pretty much everything that is wrong with homeopathy in the UK today, and everywhere else for that matter. It is the same argument about faith of every kind. In the end it boils down to the fact that all nonsense is nonsense, irrespective of how sweet and decent the exponents.

It is a falsehood to think that we can forgive homeopaths who do not claim extreme abilities, any more than we can forgive those who profess only ‘benign’ faith, since all faith, however mild, cannot but defend all faith.

Dear Gerard,

You say “You have not provided a reply to any of the good, sound and factual arguments people have presented.” Kindly do let us know which of your “sound, factual arguments” you would hold out as your most irrefutable?

Ta much!

Of course nonsense is nonsense. But there are degrees of harm such nonsense can bring. We cannot rid the world of nonsense but we can try to mitigate in areas where there is serious risk of harm. If homeopathy was more ‘benign’, that is a bit more like crystal healing where claims of being complete form of medicine are rarer then we we would not care too much. If homeopaths stuck to treating people who were feeling a bit at odds then I am sure they would not be the focus of serious concern. This charity highlights just how extreme and damaging UK homeopathy is.

The thing about Gerard, and people of his type, is that they do such vast damage to their own cause every time they open their mouth, or their computer, that it’s tempting to leave them to their absurd intellectual suicide-bombings.
You may know the story of the Allied plan to get a sniper into Germany in 1943, in order to assassinate Hitler. The plan was formulated to a very detailed level, but was then dropped, because the Allies by then realised that Hitler was such a raving fruitcake-even by his own standards- that Germany would lose the War within about 18 months, and assassinating him would allow the Germans to bring in somebody slightly less imbecilic,extend the War a little, exhaust everybody, then sue for peace, and avoid being hanged.
So on one level, Gerard and similar are deeply silly at best, utterly dangerous and demented at worst.
If ‘deeply silly’ were the worst of it, then one could treat them-in a kindly manner-as the daft hippy next door, or the village simpleton.
But as Andy points out, it all goes way beyond that, into the area of depravity and lunacy.
Gerard is as far as I recall the 4th person to accuse me of being in the pay of shadowy big business, if not of outright criminals, for doing nothing more than disagreeing with him and others like him.
It’s at this point that the mask of ‘holistic caring gentleness’, loosely glued on as it always was, slides off, and we see the boiling hatred and anger and wilful stupidity that’s underneath. I’ve had plenty of disagreements with people in the past-and I’m sufficiently grown up to remain friends with a lot of them-but never in my entire life have I been accused of holding the views I do because I’m being paid by dark forces. Until I took on homeopaths.
I’m reading some early Martin Gardner stuff at the moment, including his 1952 writings on ‘dianetics’. That too at the time was regarded as just a silly cult followed by silly people. How quickly did THAT change.
I understand the dangers of becoming embroiled in Britain’s libel laws-as Ben Goldacre and this site show, you can lose even if you win, in financial terms-but how I wish somebody somewhere could find a way of dragging people like Gerard into court and forcing them, at risk of huge financial cost, to back up their claims of financial impropriety with some evidence, or to shut the hell up with their baseless, cowardly allegations.
But-as we’ve all said before-the notion of ‘evidence’ is alien to them, as can be seen by their adherence to this bizarre cult.

The Sherrs pot forward a protocol for a trial of homeopathy vs HIV with a placebo (actually, of course two placebo) arms. Fortunately they dropped the idea. Their present claims to not interfere with ARV treatment can be considered along the general concept of veracity by homeopaths.

BTW, remember this? http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/03/top-ten-tips-for-creating-your-own-new.html

I used it to make an e-book. Yes I invented a new alternative med thingly

“Homeopathy is the only medicine that God wants.”

So God would want people to get cancer and AIDS, so that they can be treated with homeopathy?
Dawkins was spot on about this evil megalomaniac.