Homeopaths’ Paranoia Reaches New High

UK Homeopathy never learns from its mistakes. They can manage to turn almost anything into a PR own goal, so distorted their understanding of reality.

Ineffectual at best, but more likely counter productive. Their history is littered with examples.

Where have the ARH homeopaths been?
Hardly a ‘sneak consultation’ – I responded three weeks ago, and I was late to do so even then.

But ‘Karin and Team ARH’ are not ‘paranoid’.
(Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Wikipedia).

She must be assured that any threat to her practice and belief is not delusional and irrational, the CCG really is out to rid the NHS of expenditure on any modality for which there is no plausibe evidence base. In this case, homeopathic remedies.

Homeopaths will be able to counsel and prescribe privately, even if the CCG decides not to expend NHS funds on such a service.
It is false to claim that patients will lose such services.

By now the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths should have created an appropriate charity to support and fund patients who cannot afford the remedies on their own account. I am sure the Duke of Cornwall would be Patron of such a charity.

I have a basic human right for the society in which I live not to use the revenues I provide for fantasy and irrationality. Thank you.

They really can’t get even the simplest things right.

“Our NHS is funded by us, so we have an absolute right to be offered the treatment options which we know work best for us. It is completely unacceptable to allow a lobbying group to ride rough shod over patient choice.”

Nope. Nobody has any right, absolute or otherwise, to insist on a specific form of treatment (let alone non-treatment) – that’s the job of doctors and health commissioning bodies.

Well I wonder about Science,it has had a rough time lately. I am pleased to say that many highly educated friends and relatives use Homeopathy with success. I really could not give a fig if the healing process is Psychosomatic, the object is relief of pain and suffering. Arnica certainly works for some reason and when I used it successfully in a well known hospital the nurses were almost unanimous in their approval.
Sadly Homeopathy appears not to work for those of us already on allopathic medication. That makes sense despite the denials of Doctors who have been allopathic and converted.

Science is fine, acceptance of science is what’s been having a hard time.

Pity the poor homeopaths who cannot correctly identify the source of the conspiracy against them, which, inconveniently for them, is reality itself.

An accusation has been made that the Good Thinking Society is an ‘extremist group’ – even though this is absurd nonsense, in the interests of openness and democracy the GTS should offer themselves to be investigated by the Police.

The Charity Commission should also be asked for a formal view of GTS’s status as a charity and to make comment on the suitability of the work they do.

….. and finally, it now appears that in order to be fair we must inform all of the quack organisations of this type of consultation and do it in a formal manner so that we can challenge the idea that it is being done by stealth.

They are easy to defeat, they are after all fools…………….

The reason CCGs are paying more attention to homeopathic prescriptions is that if they are classified as “specials” then community pharmacies can claim a £20 specials fee and also companies that have a specials licence can screw the NHS. They pay the homeopathic pharmacies buttons for the sugar pills and then load on an extreme mark up before sending to the pharmacies.Homeopathy is small beer compared to the cost of conventional specials eg. £200 for 50g of cream that a community pharmacist used to make up for £2.50 until health and safety stopped extemp dispensing. But then again Andy, Simon, David et al. some of us understand both conventional and natural medicine. Yes homeopathy is bull but so are a lot are a lot of conventional drugs.

The NHS doesn’t lack money, just someone with some cojones

Enjoying the fight between Singh and Taleb at the moment. Nassim certainly “owned” Mary Beard.

I too have been wondering, although from a perspective opposite to those of the homeopaths, whether there was a conspiracy involved in the holding of a stealth consultation on this matter. I am registered with a GP practice within the Bristol CCG area but knew nothing of the consultation until I read it on this website. Fortunately, I just beat the deadline to suggest the NHS should better spend its money on evidence based medicine.

It seemed like a stealth consultation to me. All quite cheeky of the GTS but I am not sure if these tactics worked. All it did was give ammunition for homeopaths to respond when it was all found out. I doubt if many Homeopaths would have responsed if it had been a well publicised consultation from day one. Homeopaths are disorganised until they have an emotive reason to be organised.
UK Homeopathic Regulations may wish to consider whether it is only Homeopaths who score own goals.

What are you on about Alan? It is clear that without the activities of GTS there would have been no consultation. I give them credit for that.

I wouldn’t want to be anyone at the trust responsible for this consultation.
Time will tell as to how the GTS comes out of this. I think they would be happy with ‘cheeky.’
It was daft of the GTS to give ammunition to homeopaths for a consultation few would otherwise have been interested in.

This was a consultation that the GTS knew about so that they contacted their friends to quiety respond without the usual social media publicity whilst homeopathic supporters didnt know about it. Nothing to do I assume with the GTS, so I am not accusing them of anything illegal. So sounds great from the GTS point of view. Then bang! Homeopaths find out with one week to go. They realise what has gone on and use this as ‘ammunition’ and use social media to express their indignation at this. Call it paranoia if you like but suddenly Homeopaths have a reason to respond to a consultation many would just have considered as another boring NNS consultation which has ‘nothing to do with me.’
Now not only are there because of the nature of this consultation countless more responses from homeopaths than there otherwise would have been. There also are real grounds for complaint against the CCGs and what should have been an easy consulatation for the GTS may be under threat.
All the GTS had to do was blog and tweet as usual to notify their supporters. Homeopaths would have picked it up but with no real ammunition to get many to respond. The GTS kindly gave them that ammunition by not thinking. Rather ironic really.
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Just ran across an old term for anyone selling or touting worthless nostrums: quacksalver

Do you know what’s funny? Science exists whether you believe in it or not. The science of homeopathy is a curative means, which is not limited to or by the number of sceptics. Gravity pulls even when you write a whole article about how stupid that sounds. Science. Homeopathy. Biology. Chemistry. Im sure you can find some great books that explain Avogadro’s number.

By the way homeopathy doesn’t end its commercials with ‘side effects may include……stroke, suicide, internal bleeding, and death. So ask your doctor about how this prescription could be right for you’.

Or to paraphrase what Andy just said;

It seems ‘because they said so’ is the scientific proof from which you stand by.

Funny, I seem to have read that somewhere else.