Homeopathy is bunk, study says

My wife swears by rescue drops amongst other things.
I've told her for years that Homeopathy is garbage but she always fought it with the argument that it has helped her.
 
Vibrations Bro. Vibrations. They work. Like meditation.
 
Midnight_choir_drunk said:
I dated a girl who'd studied homeopathy in Europe. Whenever any of my friends or hers were sick she'd get out her little bottles of voodoo. I called her out on the bull so many times and she claimed I just didn't understand it. I asked her what there was to understand and she said "It works with energies". :erm:

So many fights.
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How did it last long enough for there to be many fights? :p

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Electric said:
My wife swears by rescue drops amongst other things.
I've told her for years that Homeopathy is garbage but she always fought it with the argument that it has helped her.
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Give some confirmation bias a dollop of placebo effect and a generous helping of regression toward the mean and people will accept all kinds of bunk without critical evaluation.
 
SweetFennyAdams said:
Although many people lump these two health modalities together, Homoeopathy and Phytotherapy (Medical Herbalism) are two diametrically opposed systems of medicine.
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LOL thanks for the thesis.

Jokes aside I don't think anyone here is confusing using herbs with actual evidence of efficacy with the crap hoax of diluting beet roots in water over and over again to cure you of your beet root allergy. :p
 
Electric said:
My wife swears by rescue drops amongst other things.
I've told her for years that Homeopathy is garbage but she always fought it with the argument that it has helped her.
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Are rescue drops not herbal?
 
My niece when she was 6yrs had a hearing problem. Doctors and specialists said that she must undergo an op, whatever the details are, I'm not sure but it would have been costly and not really an op you would have done on your little kiddo.

They went to a homeopath, they gave her some powders and the problem (liquid in her inner ear) got sorted out.
Some guys call it bull but that's the proof.
 
Unhappy438 said:
Are rescue drops not herbal?
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Nope;

They contain a very small amount of flower material in a 50:50 solution of brandy and water, and are said to work by transmitting a vibrational energy through the memory of water (not the same as homeopathy, but equally implausible).
 
MR.C said:
My niece when she was 6yrs had a hearing problem. Doctors and specialists said that she must undergo an op, whatever the details are, I'm not sure but it would have been costly and not really an op you would have done on your little kiddo.

They went to a homeopath, they gave her some powders and the problem (liquid in her inner ear) got sorted out.
Some guys call it bull but that's the proof.
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Electric said:
Nope;

They contain a very small amount of flower material in a 50:50 solution of brandy and water, and are said to work by transmitting a vibrational energy through the memory of water (not the same as homeopathy, but equally implausible).
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I don't see brandy mentioned here:

http://natura.co.za/index.php?q=selfmed|productview,87,Rescue_Drops

Composition

Homoeopathic- flower essence combination complementary medicine.

Ambra grisea D6
Banisteropsis caapi Spag D60
Clematis vitalba (Clematis) aqua inf.
Helianthemum nummularium (Rock Rose) aqua inf.
Impatiens glandulifera (Impatiens) aqua inf.
Melissa officinalis Spag D3
Ornithogalum umbellatum (Star of Bethlehem) aqua inf.
Prunus cerasifera (Cherry Plum) aqua inf.
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I'm quoting Bach's ingredients.
It most certainly has got an alcoholic base which is why you should give it in lower doses to babies.
34% alcohol in fact.
 
Ah okay, apologies.

My SO's mother gives a few drops to the dogs when there is lightning, despite my protests. Next time I am going to swig the whole bottle in front of her, to prove it has no effect.
 
MR.C said:
My niece when she was 6yrs had a hearing problem. Doctors and specialists said that she must undergo an op, whatever the details are, I'm not sure but it would have been costly and not really an op you would have done on your little kiddo.

They went to a homeopath, they gave her some powders and the problem (liquid in her inner ear) got sorted out.
Some guys call it bull but that's the proof.
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She never had a problem that required an op, then.
 
Also worth noting is the 2010 UK Science and Technology Committee report on Homoeopathy, commissioned by the UK Parliament. The body carried out an evidence check to test if the Government’s policies on homoeopathy were based on sound evidence .

After exhaustive research, the Committee concluded that the NHS (National Health Service) should cease all funding of homoeopathy. It also concluded that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should not allow homoeopathic product labels to make medical / health claims without evidence of efficacy. As they are 'not medicines', homoeopathic products should no longer be licensed by the MHRA.

The Committee concurred with the Government that the evidence base shows that homoeopathy is not efficacious (that is, it does not work beyond the placebo effect) and that explanations for why homoeopathy would work are scientifically implausible.

The Committee concluded-given that the existing scientific literature showed no good evidence of efficacy-that further clinical trials with tax payers money of homoeopathy could not be justified.

Download the full Report here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/45/45.pdf
 
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MR.C said:
My niece when she was 6yrs had a hearing problem. Doctors and specialists said that she must undergo an op, whatever the details are, I'm not sure but it would have been costly and not really an op you would have done on your little kiddo.

They went to a homeopath, they gave her some powders and the problem (liquid in her inner ear) got sorted out.
Some guys call it bull but that's the proof.
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Wow, all those pharmaceutical companies wasting their time with double-blind clinical trials. If only they knew that correlation automatically means something works, they could have saved piles of money, time and red tape.
 
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