Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts, and the Prince of Wales

http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/11/1755

This is a great read...puts homeopathy where it belongs..in the
dumpster...remember, homeopathy is the currently politically correct
term for witchcraft.

Do you think I don’t understand the hydrostatic paradox of controversy?
If you had a bent tube, one arm of which was the size of a pipe-stem and
the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same
height in one as in the other. Thus discussion equalizes fools and wise
men in the same way, and the fools know it. O. W. Holmes. The Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table (1)

THE HYDROSTATIC PARADOX has never been so well illustrated as by current
discussions of alternative medicine and its poster child, homeopathy.

"Mark Probert" wrote in message
news:Wd4_g.3$iM2.2@trndny08...
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/11/1755

This is a great read...puts homeopathy where it belongs..in the
dumpster...remember, homeopathy is the currently politically correct term
for witchcraft.

Who cares what is *politically correct*?

Since many rheumatologists believe that "fibromyalgia" is simply a euphemism
for a variety of medicalized miseries (14)

One can stop reading right there.

[Mark's attempt to trash deleted].

"Jan Drew" wrote:


"Mark Probert" wrote in message
news:Wd4_g.3$iM2.2@trndny08...
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/full/20/11/1755

This is a great read...puts homeopathy where it belongs..in the
dumpster...remember, homeopathy is the currently politically correct term
for witchcraft.

Who cares what is *politically correct*?

Since many rheumatologists believe that "fibromyalgia" is simply a euphemism
for a variety of medicalized miseries (14)

What is wrong with that statement, Jan? Is it wrong to use a single
word to describe a range of diseases and ailments? Do you object to
the words "rash", "fever" and "cancer"?

I find it interesting to note that Jan has often referred to Dr
Stephen Barrett as "Sue Barrett". There is actually a Dr Sue Barrett
who is considered an expert on fibromyalgia, of all things. Her father
runs an excellent web site. I will let you guess which site that is.
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