Homeopathy is a big fat lie

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DID YOU KNOW:

  1. Homeopathy is based on the laughable theory that if a substance duplicates your symptoms, a tiny, tiny, tiny, amount of that substance cures your symptoms. Reality has proven otherwise.

  2. Homeopathy is not more effective than sugar pills or other placebos in double blind tests (i.e. it doesn’t actually do anything, ever, period)

  3. There is probably not one molecule of the “cure” substance in your Homeopathy treatment. In fact, it is unlikely that there is any molecule that any contact with the original cure. In other words, none of the “cure” is in the final medicine, which is often diluted to 10^60. That’s a lower density of “cure” molecules than one grain of sand out of all the earth, or even less than one star out of the entire universe.

  4. ANY affect is created by the placebo affect

  5. Homeopathy was invented by this guy:

  1. He believed for a long time that ALL DESEASES WERE CAUSED BY COFFEE. Think about this for a minute. Not everyone drank coffee, especially in the 1800s.

MORAL: Unreliable methods (i.e. non-scientific testing, or no tests at all) lead to unreliable results.

Save your money for either real treatments, or heal naturally when possible.

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Bad experience?

“Apathy is the Glove in Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.

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Nah, just bored.

Until recently I wasn’t even aware that so many people in the US were paying good money for bad medicine. I guess I should not be amazed at the crazy things people believe, but still am. Head-On (that rub on headache treatment) was a homeopathy scam, which I also didn’t realize until recently (no, never tried it). Just thought I’d share my research.

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Don’t know anything about homeopathic medicine. The only non-traditional medicine I have ever experienced was accupuncture and I swear by it.

“Apathy is the Glove in Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.

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Many of these forms of “therapy” have no basis of proof of effectiveness in actual clinical trials. Their so called success is based upon anecdotal evidence. The anecdotal evidence is from individuals who have found these therapies to be beneficial simply because they BELIEvE that they will be successful. As RR mentioned, that’s the scientifically proven “placebo effect” or “white-coat effect”.

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Good point, ST. It’s remarkable how many people don’t realize that the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”. Critical thinking should be taught in all schools, but it’s shamefully not.

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I recently heard a comedian “If alternative medicine worked…it would be called MEDICINE”

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