It appears that you and some others here do not understand the science of homeopathy or how homeopatic methodology works.
It appears that you don't understand the function of a
placebo.
Homeopathy consists of diluting a medication tot he point where there is
no longer a detectable amount of the active ingredient.
If such a thing worked, then every time you drink a glass of water you should also give you the effects of any and all substances ever dissolved in it.
1. Homeopathic treatment is a very safe, cheap and effective means of treatment, often effecting relief in both acute and chronic ailments.
It has been effective when applied properly by trained practitioners in some chronic ailments which have been considered incurable by conventional medicine.
Placebo. Demonstrate a reputable, peer-reviewed study in which homeopathic "medicine" was shown to have a significantly different effect than a
sugar pill.
It's no wonder it's safe and cheap - it
is in most cases
nothing more than a sugar pill.
2. My hay fever pills which are the most effective that I've ever found are homeopathic. They are relatively cheap remedies which I found on my own in our local health food outlet.
Your personal experiences amount to nothing, Buz. The result could be placebo, changing weather conditions, or any number of other factors even up to your own subjective inaccuracy in being able to tell the difference.
3. Homeopathy works most effectively to strengthen and maintain a healthy immune system in the body holistically. It mimics the disease so as to stimulate the body's own immune system which in turn wards off the ailment. It is a simple scientific concept which makes logical sense as well.
Bullshit. It's diluted to the point where, if you had the volume of the Atlantic ocean in medication, the active ingredient would amount to
a scant few drops. It's completely undetectable, and in most cases the chances of you actually ingesting even a
single molecule of the "active ingredient" in a given pill are astronomically small.
4. Children are agreeable to it since the medicine is usually administered as a sugary pill. Perhaps that's one reason why some mistakenly regard it as quack medicine.
5. Homeopathic medicines are easy to administer. Homeopathic medicines are usually dispensed as sweet sugar pills, which are very easy to take. Due to this reason, children readily agree to take homeopathic remedies.
That's because they
are sugar pills! Sugar pills, with
no detectable active ingredient.
6. Homeopathy, by enhancing the whole body's immune system, effects a more healthy body in general so as to eliminate the need to depend upon the $$$ medical establishment and to avoid some of their dangerous and $$$ practice.
7. Being holistic, it does not require the need for multiple specialists in the various segments of health care.
That's right, the
doctors who spend their lives learning and practicing tried-and-tested techniques of medicine under controlled and objectively verifiable circumstances are just out to get your money. The newagey college dropout hippy down the street selling
snake oil obviously knows better than any silly
doctor! Why pay more when they'll
remove your appendix?! Save money and take a
sugar pill for your appendicitis!
I'm sure that if Michael Savage were to grace us with his expertise on this he would be able to cite much more as to why the science on this is valid.
Again, Michael Savage is a very intelligent fellow indeed. One can widen their knowledge and understanding by listening to him on a number of topics.
Michael Savage is a
radio talk-show host. In this case he is making comments regarding
psychiatry, not nutrition. You notice how he says "in my opinion" whenever he says bullshit like this? That's because he
knows that it's bullshit. You take what he says as gospel truth becasue he agrees with your
other twisted and ignorant views and because he has a PhD. But Savage does
not have a PhD in
child psychology, and is completely unqualified to make the statements he made.
Anyone who believes in homeopathy is
an idiot. You're taking sugar pills, Buz, nothing more. It is objectively demonstrable to be
nothing more than lies and flim-flam. And frankly I wish Savage could have his PhD
revoked if he genuinely supports homeopathy, which consists of nothing more than a bunch of quack snake-oil salesmen making scads of money off of gullible little twits like
you.
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