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Homeopathy Explained Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud? (Original Post)
Major Nikon
Feb 2018
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VMA131Marine
(4,140 posts)1. Fraud!
Beakybird
(3,333 posts)2. I heard that Canada's health system did a study
of many alternative approaches to medicine, and after doing a meta analysis of homeopathy studies, they concluded that it had no efficacy whatsoever.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)3. Surprise!
longship
(40,416 posts)4. Outrageous fraud.
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
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)5. Big Pharm propaganda
What is the point the poster is making here? What are the posters comments?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)6. I get plastered by filling up my buddies' empty beer bottles with water
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
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!
https://respectfulinsolence.com/
Thar's big money to be made in quackery! And it gets away from the tiresome bureaucracy of regulation and testing!