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Homeopathy Explained Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud? (Original Post) Major Nikon Feb 2018 OP
Fraud! VMA131Marine Feb 2018 #1
I heard that Canada's health system did a study Beakybird Feb 2018 #2
Surprise! Major Nikon Feb 2018 #3
Outrageous fraud. longship Feb 2018 #4
Big Pharm propaganda Equinox Moon Feb 2018 #5
I get plastered by filling up my buddies' empty beer bottles with water Major Nikon Feb 2018 #6
A couple of good anti-homeo/naturo-path (and other -paths) resources erronis Feb 2018 #7

Beakybird

(3,333 posts)
2. I heard that Canada's health system did a study
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:12 AM
Feb 2018

of many alternative approaches to medicine, and after doing a meta analysis of homeopathy studies, they concluded that it had no efficacy whatsoever.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Outrageous fraud.
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:21 AM
Feb 2018

It not only doesn't work, it cannot work. (Only HS chemistry needed here.) And the placebo effect does not cure any diseases. Not one.

And don't get me started about naturopaths. (Quacks!)

Read more about these things: Science-Based Medicine Blog

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
6. I get plastered by filling up my buddies' empty beer bottles with water
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:44 AM
Feb 2018

They laugh at me, but I have the last laugh as at the end of the night I'm at least 10 times drunker with 10 times more money in my pocket.

erronis

(15,306 posts)
7. A couple of good anti-homeo/naturo-path (and other -paths) resources
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 11:49 AM
Feb 2018
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/

https://respectfulinsolence.com/

Thar's big money to be made in quackery! And it gets away from the tiresome bureaucracy of regulation and testing!
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