Homeopathy vs allopathy - Part 2.

JohnDoe wrote:
Peter Bowditch wrote:

"john" wrote:


"Peter Bowditch" wrote in message
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I have to admit admiration for someone who can make up a conspiracy
theory this good.
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any moron can see the reality--780,000 people killed every year by
allopathy http://www.whale.to/a/dean.html

plus the 100,000 plus killed by chemo

Percentage of cancer patients whose lives are predictably saved by
chemotherapy - 3%
Percentage of people with cancer in the U.S. who receive chemotherapy
- 75%.

go figure


Like I said, it takes something special to generate this sort of
paranoia.

I'd sure jump at the opportunity to make an fMRI scan of John
Scudamore's brain.

What makes you think there is an 'f' to scan?

If there is a biological basis to this sort of
behaviour, the anomaly should be as easy to spot as Andre the Giant
would have been among pygmees.

In article .com,
NotImportant wrote:

David Wright wrote:
In article ,
Happy Dog wrote:
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snip sermon

Homeopathy is a religion. To date, nobody has been able to support claims
that homeopathic remedies have obvious effects, of any kind, with a simple
controlled demonstration. Why is that?

exhale

Well, there have been controlled trials that appeared to show some
effect from homeopathic medications, but you'd expect that in one
case out of 20 just from random chance. Replication, now, that'd be
far more impressive.

Have a look at this article, david. But I have a feeling is that
you won't have the patience to read it all but instead pick here and
there and then think you know enough to make an informed rebuttal.

Gee, thank you for your kind words about my diligence. By the way,
there is NOT ONE WORD in the article about anyone having replicated a
successful homeopathic trial. I think there might have been one such
so far, but I can't recall for sure.

But I read the bloody thing anyway, in spite of your snotty tone (you
might make a good US ambassador to the UN once Bolton's out), and to
save others from having to do the same, here's the Readers Digest
version, paragraph by paragraph:

homeopathy has been around for 200 years and a lot of people
use it; it's claimed to work for animals and people

it's got a different belief system from conventional medicine
and its remedies are very safe due to dilution; a gratutitous
mischaracterization of conventional medicine is tossed in

claims that there have been "many" high-quality studies that
show homeopathy works

Horton has been hostile to homeopathy before and the homeopaths
did not like the way he classified studies, or that some pro-
homeopathy papers have been rejected for publication

dark implications that It's A Conspiracy because there are some
papers that suggest homeopathy works wonderfully

homeopathy must work because one researcher got results she
couldn't explain when she tried to disprove it

too bad everyone won't concede homeopathy works

homeopathy must work because otherwise nobody would use it, so
we should all work together

Put all together like this, it's one big yawn.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

NotImportant wrote:

Have a look at this article, david. But I have a feeling is that
you won't have the patience to read it all but instead pick here and
there and then think you know enough to make an informed rebuttal.

----------------------------- Article Follows
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The battle between big pharmaceuticals and Homoeopathy
by Clive Stuart

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