We must understand there are real consequences to people, for letting this medical quackery go on unchecked.

You’re a good writer Ben and I would not disagree with any scientific opinion of homeopathy from the point of view of science – it is perfectly logical.

Personally though I found this article to be laced with prejudice and contempt – and not objectivity. I’m not a homeopath.

I was sceptical about homeopathy before I actually tried it – that is, went to see a homeopath not just buy something from Boots.

1. I took the remedy. The symptoms which I had had for a year cleared in 2 days. A “normal” doctor was not able to do anything for it.

2. About 3 weeks later the symptoms returned. I took the same remedy (perhaps a different potency). I had to stop taking the remedy because my dreams had become psychedelically terrifying – and lucid. The dreams stopped when I stopped taking the remedy. The “side effects” that transpired were in fact consistent with that remedy. I did not know this beforehand. I had a similar change in the nature of my dreams in the first remedy also.

Sure this is personal experience – hardly a double blind trial but for me at least defeats the placebo argument as a catch all explanation for any positive effects of homeopathy.

Homeopathy treats the person – 2 people with the same symptoms may be prescribed different remedies. If this is the case how can homeopathy ever use the “drug trial” as an effective way of testing its efficacy.

This post is two and a half years old, my guess is the SoH have changed their page by now. You could try the waybackmachine, otherwise you’re going to have to find your reference elsewhere, I’m sure there are plenty of places to chose from still :/

If you could please pm me i would be very greatful i would like to ask a couple of questions regarding your article.

Leila

Spirit and Engrams [Dianetics]
play a monster role in human
wellness. there may not be a large enough potential financial gain for anyone to
quantify these influences.
whatever works eh ?? love all – jimhicks36atjunodotcalm

Spirit and Engrams [Dianetics]
play a monster role in human
wellness. there may not be a large enough potential financial gain for anyone to
quantify these influences.
whatever works eh ?? love all – jimhicks36@junodotcalm

Well done, Dr. Goldacre.

After attending my final ever anti-vaccination seminar recently

jonathanhearsey.com/?p=34

I’d love you to write a paper of similar magnitude on the subject of vaccinations.

Keep up the good work,

JH

Oh man, that paper is terrible. The study group is tiny, less than half of them improved, the homeopathic remedy was was administered with all sorts of other stuff who’s possible effects are utterly ignored, the timescale for improvement is completely random for each patient (so no consistent, measurable effect as you would expect with something having an actual effect) and there’s no word whatsoever on whether the patients were also undergoing any other treatments, what previous treatments they’d had, whether their diagnosis was independently confirmed and so on. I could go on, but there’s not much point. This is a backwater journal trying to stir up some interest by publishing a dubious, contentious paper that would be (and probably was) thrown out by any decent title. You may as well ask whether the patients ate any cake during the study period, and then claim cake cures cancer.