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Is Homeopathy medicine or quackery?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Elphick" data-source="post: 55922924" data-attributes="member: 250886"><p>I can imagine why you might say that. There's a detectable trend away from conventional medicine as can be seen by the growth in the uptake of alternative therapies. I particularly dislike the chain stores that sell herbal medicines, vitamins, homeopathic remedies etc. Faith healing has of course been with us for a very long time.</p><p> </p><p>Medicine shook off its quackery when the scientific method was adopted, but in doing so, it seems to have lost sight of the human being it is caring for, and, significantly, forgotten about the age-old elicitation of the placebo effect:-</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>It seems the combination of an irrational patient and irrational treatment can actually be effective and no doubt alternative medicine works in the same way that is, on the basis of the placebo response (even homeopathy). There's no reason why the scientific method cannot be applied to studying this effect and, despite all the ethical and practical issues, of finding a proper and professional way of putting it to good use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Elphick, post: 55922924, member: 250886"] I can imagine why you might say that. There's a detectable trend away from conventional medicine as can be seen by the growth in the uptake of alternative therapies. I particularly dislike the chain stores that sell herbal medicines, vitamins, homeopathic remedies etc. Faith healing has of course been with us for a very long time. Medicine shook off its quackery when the scientific method was adopted, but in doing so, it seems to have lost sight of the human being it is caring for, and, significantly, forgotten about the age-old elicitation of the placebo effect:- It seems the combination of an irrational patient and irrational treatment can actually be effective and no doubt alternative medicine works in the same way that is, on the basis of the placebo response (even homeopathy). There's no reason why the scientific method cannot be applied to studying this effect and, despite all the ethical and practical issues, of finding a proper and professional way of putting it to good use. [/QUOTE]
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