Tunbridge Wells homeopathic hospital to close.

[John Jackson]

http://dcscience.net/?p=167

It's rather pleasing to see rationality winning out over pseudoscience for a change.

Homeopathy is a completely untenable system of healthcare from a scientific point of view: what is homeopathy?

As with all irrational beliefs it can be argued that people gain from it (placebo effects etc.) which is fair enough but to do so on the NHS, at taxpayers' expense, using money that could be spent on things that are proven to work, is an indulgence and a waste.

This is not a question of whether homeopathy works (it doesn't even though many believe in it) but a question of whether the small placebo benefits people gain are worth the cost.

I certainly have never thought so; especially when one considers the alternative treatments the money could be spent on.

Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for these anachronistic 'homeopathic hospitals' and a sign that we're at last leaving this 19th century psedoscience behind us.

[bindeweede]

http://dcscience.net/?p=167

It's rather pleasing to see rationality winning out over pseudoscience for a change.

Homeopathy is a completely untenable system of healthcare from a scientific point of view: what is homeopathy?

As with all irrational beliefs it can be argued that people gain from it (placebo effects etc.) which is fair enough but to do so on the NHS, at taxpayers' expense, using money that could be spent on things that are proven to work, is an indulgence and a waste.

This is not a question of whether homeopathy works (it doesn't even though many believe in it) but a question of whether the small placebo benefits people gain are worth the cost.

I certainly have never thought so; especially when one considers the alternative treatments the money could be spent on.

Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for these anachronistic 'homeopathic hospitals' and a sign that we're at last leaving this 19th century psedoscience behind us.

John,

Shortly after I joined this forum, I printed off your analysis of homeopathy, read and absorbed it. I'm sure you will tell if I'm wrong, but if the dilution of active ingredients increases their effectiveness, taken to an absurd extreme, would not the most effective result from taking the substance be to just look at it, and take none at all????

[Mojo]

So closing the hospital will make it more effective?

[Lord Muck oGentry]

So closing the hospital will make it more effective?

Good one!

[bindeweede]

Good one!

I am SSSSOOOO slow, but I get there in the end.

[wooo_oops]

John,

Shortly after I joined this forum, I printed off your analysis of homeopathy, read and absorbed it. I'm sure you will tell if I'm wrong, but if the dilution of active ingredients increases their effectiveness, taken to an absurd extreme, would not the most effective result from taking the substance be to just look at it, and take none at all????

I'm not going to answer for John, but I did hear that Rajan Sankaran proposed that only the idea of taking a remedy would suffice.

I heard that from my partner, who studied homeopathy years ago.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

I am SSSSOOOO slow, but I get there in the end.

Well, that'll larn me. :-)

[bindeweede]

Well, that'll larn me. :-)

Sorry. I do not understand.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Sorry. I do not understand.

It's for me to apologize, not you. I thought you were being ironical rather than lighthearted. Sorry.

[bindeweede]

It's for me to apologize, not you. I thought you were being ironical rather than lighthearted. Sorry.

Hey, am I bovvered? Do I look.....? What's it all about?
Dunno.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

OK. Now, where did you get the avatar from?

[bindeweede]

It's for me to apologize, not you. I thought you were being ironical rather than lighthearted. Sorry.

Look, you are so brainy, I have absolutely no idea what you are on about. This place intimidates me - so many brainy folks. I am simply so pleased that people like Cuddles and Araneus, and others, too many to mention, have not destroyed me. I just feel I have been tolerated, nothing more.

[bindeweede]

OK. Now, where did you get the avatar from?

www.avatrsdb.com

[bindeweede]

www.avatrsdb.com

What's the point of a link that doesn't work

www.avatarsdb.com

Sorry about that.

[Mojo]

OK. Now, where did you get the avatar from?

Strangely enough, I've seen it on a thread about homoeopathy before: it used to appear here, but the person who started it has since changed her avatar.