Marching orders have gone out...

[Archae]

I'm seeing one after another article posted here about how "Big Pharma" is EEEE-VIL, and homeopathy is "natural" and "good."

The Scientologists used to do this to radio call-in shows, send out marching orders to get on the radio show, often using deception, and then say how bad psychiatry is and Scientology is so much better.

I heard it myself on Art Bell's radio show.
He didn't waste any time disconnecting them.

Here we are seeing unrelated to homeopathy articles used to "prove" how good it is.
But it's still total bullshit, and the FDA is finally cracking down on these con artists.

[bravenak]

1. Are they posting here? Today? Good grief. Everybody knows homeopathic meds are nonsensec

Might save a few uninformed a few bucks here and there since they have to let consumers know that their product is garbage. My mom especially. She spends like ten bucks a pack on these homeopathic swabs she uses when she gets sick. Goes through four or five packs every time. Waste of money.

[Archae]

2. "Homeopathic swabs?"

Just how callous and greedy can they get?

[bravenak]

3. Nasal swabs, expensive as hell too

She even buys them for me. I begged her to stop wasting money.

[etherealtruth]

4. It makes me sad (actually sick) to see DU used as a repository for pseudo science / quackery

[WhiteTara]

5. Like the recall of 3 medicines because they contain

bella donna. Oops.

[SidDithers]

6. On a related note, SpiralHawk is back with a new name...nt

Sid

[HassleCat]

7. Stalking behavior

Typical of cults. There are organizations which maintain "ready response" teams to flood boards when they detect the truth being told. The anti vaccination crowd was really good at this.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. The right's replacement for Obamacare?

[Wounded Bear]

10. It's perfect....

you get to sell water at prices usually reserved for cancer medications.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Disagree

Homeopathy doesn't work all the time, but for simple problems it often
works for me. It's relatively cheap and doesn't do damage, it does
tweak symptoms. I wouldn't use it for serious illness surely. For that I'd
use mainstream medicine, and then consult a naturopath.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I rather suspect that your "simple problems"....

are mostly related to conditions whose main symtoms include dehydration.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Your suspicions are incredibly off-base

because I drink plenty of water

[Merlot]

13. Homeopathy has been used on livestock for years

I don't understand why people get so upset at the idea of homeopathy. If work for some people, or if people think it's a fraud, who cares? why is it SUCH a point of contention?

[7962]

14. Because they're all SO much smarter than you!

I dont get it either. I remember the medical community going after Chiropractic really hard too. I;ve never used one, but I know several people who had painful issues who no longer do. It worked for them
I know people who love homeopathic stuff and they seem fine as well. Its THEIR choice, as long as harmful stuff isnt being sold

[Archae]

15. A quack is a quack.

"Standing on my head and reciting Dr Seuss cured my asthma!"

Chriropractic got "acceptance" not due to any science.
They went the political route.

Just like supplements.

Every time, and this is *EVERY* time chiropractic or homeopathy is put to actual scientific scrutiny, it fails.
Completely.

When I get my chronic headaches, I'm not going to find tincture of ringworm that gets advertised on woo websites like "Natural News."

I take a couple generic Excedrin, or if it's really bad I get a couple pills from the local clinic.

[7962]

16. Politics didnt make my brother in law's back better. A chiropractor did

After 2 surgeries did little. So its all in his head? Fine, if it WORKED I dont care.
Sure there are quacks out there & snake oil salesmen. But many of our modern medicines come from nature

[progressoid]

20. And it doesn't work on them either.

And why is it such a point of contention?

Jacqueline Alderslade. Age: 55 Hollymount, County Mayo, Ireland
A homeopath told her to give up her asthma medication. She later died of an asthma attack.

Isabella Denley. Age: 13 months Kew, Victoria, Australia
Isabella was prescribed medications for her epilepsy. Instead of using them, her parents consulted an iridologist, an applied kinesiologist, a psychic and an osteopath. She was being treated purely with homeopathic medication when she died.


Janeza Podgoršek . Age: 42 Trboje, Slovenia
A physician/homeopath advised him to use homoepathic preventatives for malaria prior to a trip to Africa. After he returned with the disease she continued to treat him with homeopathy. He died

etc.
etc.
etc.

[progressoid]

17. It's just water. Any positive effect you may feel is simply a placebo effect.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/45/4504.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874503/

[bucolic_frolic]

18. To you and to them, to me it is real medicine and my doctor said so and it works

It's been working for 30 years? I've experienced 30 years of placebo effect?
Me who is skeptical of everything? I don't think so.

You are entitled to your opinion. It is your reality. It is not mine, and most
importantly, it is my body and not yours and not science's.

I won't even read your mainstream AMA garbage. They are the quacks. They
have made more illness and misery then anything else, and all to control the
patients and line their greedy little pockets. They never cure anything. They
just treat symptoms. Real medicine heals with minimal side effects.

[progressoid]

21. It's not from the AMA. It's the National Institute of Health (US) & the National Health Service (UK)

Modern medicine saved my Mother from breast cancer, my Father from heart failure, and my children from multiple diseases that a few decades ago could have killed them.

And yes, you can experience the placebo effect for 30 years.

Clearly you aren't skeptical of everything if you think water is a cure for illnesses. Homeopathy = water.

[dembotoz]

19. there might be some good but most seems to be not so much...problem how do you tell

[progressoid]

22. yup...