To ask whether or not people here believe in homeopathy?

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I don't at all.

However, I'm not out for a bunfight!

Just curious, as was surprised by the response of a certain group to this question today.

Ohh - I love Ben Goldacre

Homeopaths Without Borders' - please tell me this is a made up organisation????

www.homeopathswithoutborders-na.org/

I wish it was.

Fuck me - shoot the bastards

Homeopaths without borders???? Jeysus Effing Christ

Really

I am going to pisss in the sink.....

Is that HoHoHomeopathy or HaHahameopathy?

I believe in it so much that I get homepathic treatment on tap. Its good for curing dehydration.

Unfortunately the major solid it has come in contact with is sh*t.

I told my MW that I would use it when they could show me a double blind study. She shook her head and said, "they will never show you a double blind study".

"Homeopaths Without Borders. An organisation that rushes to disaster zones to treat injured and traumatised people - with sugar pills."

OMG they have an educational outreach program AAARRGGHH!!!

I wonder if homeopaths believe in it, or do they believe in belief?

Darwinism at its finest. If stupid people wish to waste their money and/or kill themselves by trusting woo then it can only improve the molecular balance of the gene pool surely? Or would the water in the pool remember the stupidity? hmmm deep thoughts...

Why are those of you who are non-believers so angry ?

This is not the middle ages ...nobody is forced to seek homeopathic medicine .

It is a choice .

It can't be from a protection point of view ,as you seem to spout such vile vitriol to those who might like to even consider it .

As if these people are stupid ?

I guess if one has never investigated anything 'alternative' then there is no hope for those with an inquiring mind in this thread ?

Why is it so impossible to believe that planet earth grows things that can heal us ?

IMO it makes more sense .

As I said ,I truly believe it has its place in combination with conventional medicine .

I am not angry, I am amused.

The planet does indeed grow things that can heal us, these things are called drugs and sometimes herbs.

If water has a memory how come it doesn't remember all the other stuff it has been subjected to?

If dummies want to believe in homeopathy, I don't care, if they want to treat their kid's serious illnesses with it, well I care a bit, but not too much, such is evolution.

The planet does not grow synthetics does it though ?

I don't know about any of this water memorizing stuff ~so I won't comment .

I wouldn't use it on its own for a serious illness either :) don't know why you call them "dummies" though, it is a different view point surely ?

I don't think evolution would not come in to it ,those that use/think about alternatives are normally very robust and intelligent :)

Do you have any concerns with conventional medicine ?
All the side effects ~real side effects ...?

I am in the US ,drug advertising is everywhere on the TV ~they list the side effects the drug can give -nasty side -effects that have the power to do lasting permanent damage .

I don't think Homeopathy is the only answer ...I just think it can be considered too :)

Of course the planet provides synthetics, do you think we can spin stuff out of the ether?

Synthetics are just natural things fucked about with a bit and changed into something else.

The water memory thing is pretty integral to homeopathy.

Of course I have concerns with conventional medicines and side effects, not need for concerns about side effects with homeopathy though as it doesn't do anything, good or bad. I could, right now, wander to the shops, buyout every single homeopathic remedy they have, down the lot and it wouldn't do anything, apart from perhaps hydrate me and give me a bit of a sugar rush.

I think people who believe that water can remember having something waved near it are dumb, really really dumb, they can be dumb if they like, don't care.

Just out of interest where did you think synthetics came from?

Why, why do yo believe that there's not a shred of evidence that homoeopathic medicine works, so what evidence is your belief based on?

I'm flummoxed that otherwise educated people living in the 21st century believe in alternative medicine crap.

Sheesh

If water has a memory, why does it remember pulsatilla and not poo? If someone can explain that to my satisfaction, then I might be prepared to look again at homeopathy.

I have used tea tree oil in my bath post partum and I believe it aided healing.
Every time I smell it now it takes me back to those first couple of weeks with a newborn and invokes such strong emotions in me. That's nothing to do with homeopathy of course.

I have used lavender oils to aid sleeping.

Then there's teething granules. I'm sure they've helped.

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I've read Bad Science too I'm afraid.

Someone tried to explain homeopathy to me years ago and I was extremely when they explained about it being more powerful the more it's diluted. Especially as we were working in a fecking analytical chemistry lab. A collegue I work with now believes in the Arnica pills as well, I was a bit as we work in a similar environment and I thought I worked with quite intelligent people.

I was so glad to read the Ben Goldacre's book and understand what a pile of crap it is. Fair enough the placebo effect is very real, but what a lot of money is being made...

I was offered homeopathic remedies by a pharmacist too, this puzzles me a bit.

But rea tree and lavendar oils are nothing to do with homeopathy.

Unless you use them in hompeopathic quantities, of course. Which might defeat their aromatherapy qualities rather!

bonkers those are herbal remedies not homeopathic - they actually contain active ingredients.

x-post :)

or contain something other than water/sugar/water memories anyway

Please could someone tell me why HOMEOPATHIC arnica seems to heal bruising for me incredibly quickly?

Also DS2 had really really awful eczema, took him to homeopath to shut a friend up who insisted it would work and paid for it. I went along grudgingly as I was desperate and was forced to admit that after a few days it was gone. Gone. Not better than it was...gone. Hasn't come back.