Scientific Research in homeopathy

John wrote:

I agree with Dr Malik, she is correct in quoting Hippocrates : Primum non nocere. Mark, not only are you a dangerous idiot, boorish, bigoted but ignorant as in these Post modern era we cannot be certain of anything. At least homeopathy does not kill like Dr Neoh of Columbia Asia Malaysia. Nothing is being done. Is it because the life of a lady in an Islamic country is less valuable than that of an Australian or American. The hospital should be shut down and the surgeon should be behind bars. Grow up Mark.

Its your country - why don't you do something about bad doctors? Put-up or Shut-up.

BTW homeopathy kills by leaving treatable illness untreated:

http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html

http://www.smh.com.au/national/parents-guilty...

Evidence of homeopathy is undeniably positive and consistent. It's a human evidence of experience, gathered from a real-world observation in a real-world setting (not in an ideal artificial laboratory) giving real-world solutions.

Chin MD wrote:

These are the words of Osler

Great! Quoting someone who died in 1919 when the average lifespan was 40 years old - something that had not increased since Hahnemann invented homeopathy. This is a clear indicator that it doesn't work.

Since then due to modern medicines like antibiotics and vaccinations the average lifespan in 80 - except in backwards countries where they still think homeopathy works, its only in the 60s there.

Our knowledge increases over time, we now know for a fact that homeopathy cannot work and has never been found to work in quality controlled trials. Quoting people whose medical knowledge is less than your average high school biology student does not help your cause.

Sir william osler was the professor of Internal medicine in John Hopkins, Oxford and McGill and you should read his Equanamitis , idiot

John wrote:

Sir william osler was the professor of Internal medicine in John Hopkins, Oxford and McGill and you should read his Equanamitis , idiot

So if I were to hop into a time machine and ask him the following questions he could correctly answer them???

What is DNA and RNA?

What is the basic cause of most cancer?

Is smoking harmful to your health?

How does a virus mutate?

Is radioactivity harmful?

He wouldn't have an f...ing clue.

You are once again thinking that credentials and past reputation means you should keep accepting a persons opinions. BS is BS irrespective of it coming from a politician, an academic, a doctor, a professor and you or me. We are all human and are influenced by the same errors in thinking.

Mark wrote:

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So if I were to hop into a time machine and ask him the following questions he could correctly answer them???
What is DNA and RNA?
What is the basic cause of most cancer?
Is smoking harmful to your health?
How does a virus mutate?
Is radioactivity harmful?
He wouldn't have an f...ing clue.
You are once again thinking that credentials and past reputation means you should keep accepting a persons opinions. BS is BS irrespective of it coming from a politician, an academic, a doctor, a professor and you or me. We are all human and are influenced by the same errors in thinking.

Extending this logic for future would get answers for homeopathic cures, presently termed "anecdotes".

Iqbal wrote:

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Extending this logic for future would get answers for homeopathic cures, presently termed "anecdotes".

Homeopathy has had over 200 years to prove itself in placebo controlled trials yet every time these trials are properly conducted homeopathy proves itself not better than placebo. Homeopathy is nonsense, a con and leaves sick people untreated.

Mark wrote:

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Homeopathy has had over 200 years to prove itself in placebo controlled trials yet every time these trials are properly conducted homeopathy proves itself not better than placebo. Homeopathy is nonsense, a con and leaves sick people untreated.

Homeopathy has proved itself many times over the past many years. In spite of the efforts of many, including paid writers homeopathy continues to thrive as patients cured of their diseases stand by it.

You are aware of the following, but paid to look the other way?

" When the controlled studies were first invented, knowledgeable people in the medical field thought that the last word in the history of medicine’s progress had been written. There is nothing more to worry about, they thought. In reality, we have an evidence-burdened system in place of what is popularly known as the evidence-based medicine. We go around bashing every other system of medicine as unscientific. For a change let us try and understand the science behind modern medicine, if there is any.

When we compare two cohorts of age and sex matched human beings; we are only able to match their phenotypes, that too a microscopic part of the whole phenotype, while time evolution in human system depends on the total initial knowledge of the human being. The genotype and the, all-pervading consciousness, are beyond the reach of present day assessment. We presume that our randomization takes care of all the missing links. There is very little similarity between two individuals; even the bin ovular twins are not identical. When the two groups are not identical, the end result of our controlled studies would have to, per force, go wrong. We have been drawing wrong conclusions all along and have been predicting the future of individuals based on this faulty foundation. In short, we have been predicting the unpredictable. That is the main reason why every single long-term cohort comparison has thrown up surprise findings."

Iqbal wrote:

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" When the controlled studies were first invented...

When you quote anothers words you should provide a citation to the original author, it this case B.M.(Barking Mad?) Hegde.

Mark wrote:

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When you quote anothers words you should provide a citation to the original author, it this case B.M.(Barking Mad?) Hegde.

Calling names does not effect Dr. Hegde. Only you demean yourself by this action.

You must be paid rather well to demean yourself in this fashion and to such extent!