Imagine, just imagine, that we had a process whereby we could take a single bottle of aspirin and use it to treat every single person on the planet. Where we could orally vaccinate an entire third world country for a tenth of the cost. Where families that could not afford medications for their dying children could receive medications for free. Not donated by a charity, for free because the cost of producing the medication is so low that it can be given away by other families for free. Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Not if you want to make money, it wouldn't. Hence the amazing resistance to homeopathy, and the perpetual attacks upon it. If homeopathy replaced pharmaceuticals in even a small area, the billions saved would make the whole world sit up and take notice. We'd have a roll-back to patients preparing their own remedies, a drop-off in surgeries and office visits, and a significant decrease in the total dollars spent on health care. Most importantly, we'd finally see the huge hole in the logic that the "cure" for anything is a pharmaceutical. Pharmaceuticals primarily manage, they rarely cure.
I got to read another salvo from Dr. Steven Novella recently. He's upset because Dr. Oz has a TV show and he doesn't. So he attacks Dr. Oz's credibility and insults his wife. It's sort of disturbing, but since Dr. Novella works for Yale as a professional skeptic/neurologist I suppose we should assume he's well balanced.
So here's a nice video of that supposed quack Dr. Oz washing up for surgery. Compare him to his critic lower down.
I do wonder what Dr. Novella will do with the upcoming radio show for Dana Ullman, author of the Homeopathic Revolution. I imagine a bit of frothing at the mouth, following by some eye twitching. All in a day's work for a professional skeptic. I can only imagine that they must run shrieking from the aisles of supplements filling every supermarket, hunkering down in the canned goods aisles and filling their baskets with conservative choices like Spam and Twinkies. At the checkout line they have to avert their eyes from every magazine, all trumpeting alternative treatments. It's a lonely life, somewhat of a hermetic existance, and the nightly flagellation in penance for enjoying aromatherapy candles or a nice long bath has to get a bit wearing.
That most skeptics are men is telling. They also must be clueless men, because in all likelihood their spouses are merrily buying all the soaps and supplements they desire. So these men, unable to bring their version of truth into the home, seek solace with other men online. What they are really saying is the world isn't going my way and I don't like it. It is fortunate that the women of the world are running things, because for these guys anything beyond the stone scapel and a rock to bite on is too newfangled to be trusted.
For some basic research about homeopathy, please have a look at http://www.maloneymedical.com/id30.html
Not if you want to make money, it wouldn't. Hence the amazing resistance to homeopathy, and the perpetual attacks upon it. If homeopathy replaced pharmaceuticals in even a small area, the billions saved would make the whole world sit up and take notice. We'd have a roll-back to patients preparing their own remedies, a drop-off in surgeries and office visits, and a significant decrease in the total dollars spent on health care. Most importantly, we'd finally see the huge hole in the logic that the "cure" for anything is a pharmaceutical. Pharmaceuticals primarily manage, they rarely cure.
I got to read another salvo from Dr. Steven Novella recently. He's upset because Dr. Oz has a TV show and he doesn't. So he attacks Dr. Oz's credibility and insults his wife. It's sort of disturbing, but since Dr. Novella works for Yale as a professional skeptic/neurologist I suppose we should assume he's well balanced.
So here's a nice video of that supposed quack Dr. Oz washing up for surgery. Compare him to his critic lower down.
I do wonder what Dr. Novella will do with the upcoming radio show for Dana Ullman, author of the Homeopathic Revolution. I imagine a bit of frothing at the mouth, following by some eye twitching. All in a day's work for a professional skeptic. I can only imagine that they must run shrieking from the aisles of supplements filling every supermarket, hunkering down in the canned goods aisles and filling their baskets with conservative choices like Spam and Twinkies. At the checkout line they have to avert their eyes from every magazine, all trumpeting alternative treatments. It's a lonely life, somewhat of a hermetic existance, and the nightly flagellation in penance for enjoying aromatherapy candles or a nice long bath has to get a bit wearing.
That most skeptics are men is telling. They also must be clueless men, because in all likelihood their spouses are merrily buying all the soaps and supplements they desire. So these men, unable to bring their version of truth into the home, seek solace with other men online. What they are really saying is the world isn't going my way and I don't like it. It is fortunate that the women of the world are running things, because for these guys anything beyond the stone scapel and a rock to bite on is too newfangled to be trusted.
For some basic research about homeopathy, please have a look at http://www.maloneymedical.com/id30.html
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