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.

can homeopathy cure fuckwittery?hang on the fuckwits and gullible buy it so maybe not,why cure fuckwittery when you can sell to them instead

Spero: you don't really know what you're talking about. You're right -- best be off.

Gooseberry, I'm not pretending. Trust me on this.

But Lynette you could save yourself the money and just rub some sugar into a teething baby's gums for the same effect. Homeopathy cons people.

scottish grow up

what, trust me I'm a super intelligent mumsnetter?

ludicrous

I've never heard that, suzikettles. I would be very concerned if a homeopth told someone that.

Dear Gooseberry, much as I would love to stay and chat in this incredibly illuminating and helpful way, I really must tear myself away. I will sleep sound in my prejudices, as no doubt you will in yours. And neither of us will ever admit the other is right.

However, I just don't see how ANY adult with an IQ above 65 can have any faith in homeopathy at all. And all I'm hearing so far is that its 'worked' on pets and babies with unspecified or minor ailments.

If homeopathy is placebo, which I assume it largely is, then there's a significant evidence base of its effectiveness onlion. You may well "bloody hell" -- obviously that's rather a shock to you.

shame upon these fake so called practitioners and their business imperative to sell and allude to treatment. gross and unethical

Sugar don't work on teething babies!

Calpol and and homeopathy does.

Play nicely. Or I'll bring out the sparkles.

"evdence base" ok so claim the homeopathy challenge reward then if is so easy

I don't have a prejudice: I know something about it. I don't see how any educated and thoughtful person can post in the way that you have: but there we are. Some people need that sort of bolstering: it helps them in arguments when they don't understand what they're talking about.

If the evidence for homeopathy is around the placebo effect rather than its actual efficacy then it needs to be rebranded (and ashamed).

There's a significant evidence base for placebo

And that's what homeopathy is, in my opinion and in yours too I gather.

Whether homeopaths believe homeopathy can poison people or not, it is still unethical to encourage self harmers to ingest something which they have been told is a poison.

onlion- 'colour therapy' is used daily, thats why mental health (to name one) wards are painted in calming colours. There has been extensive scientific research to back up the effect of colour on mood. I am not saying watered down versions work, but there is now research that backs up using the placebo effect to replace cancer drugs. There has been experiements with the power of prayer. I have never met a doctor that dismisses natural healing as quick as some lay people do.

I think that people are confused about what constitutes homeopathy and using natural medicine. All of our medicines are synthetic copies (because they are cheaper) of what is produced by nature.

There are doctors involved in research who are studing nature to find cures, that is why Marie Curie's symbol is now the daffodil and Teatree oil eliminates germs more effectively than bleaches. It is just cheaper to mass produce synthetic copies of what grows.

Funnily enough no homeopaths want to co-operate with clinical trials that would definitively seperate the placebo effect from any effect of the products they sell. Shame because it would be very easy to set up.

Yes, maybe it ought. I've seen an interesting link about what happens when a doctor prescribes a placebo, telling the patient that it is a placebo.

So, for everyone who doesn't 'believe' in homeopathy, what do you believe in? Does anyone who is dismissing homeopathy so easily have any real knowledge of medical systems that it is safe to 'believe' in? When you go to your doctor and receive a prescription for a 'conventional' medicine, are you aware of how it works, or even if it works at all? It really annoys me the way people are so indoctrinated with the 'accepted' view, that they are prepared to rubbish a system used everyday with very effective results (through whatever processes- biological, psychological etc) with no actual knowledge of what they're talking about.

I am not actually a staunch defender of homeopathy or any other practise, but I am careful to keep an open mind. I would never be so arrogant or self assured to dismiss anything and back it up with paragraphs copied and pasted from the internet as my evidence.

homeopathy is largely unregulated with unprotected title,eg anyone can set up and practise.but those who believe this hooey will come up with some spurious claims and refute challenges

birds this colour therapy was sending electronic impulses from a piece of string...to cure cancer,. It wasnt moode or theme colour.

No.

Very frustrating that people believe this stuff.