Explain how homeopathy is better for:

[Benguin]

I see, you're probably right ... you've been wrangling with this longer than me !

I was trying to get him to differentiate between proof and popularity.

Perhaps if he read the The Emperor's New Clothes fairy tale and then tried to explain to us whether the emperor was, in fact, fully clothed up until the kid pointed his nakedness ... unfortunately I can see that heading towards schrodinger and another incredibly depressing debate involving the 'Q' word.

 

[flume]

Kumar, it may be mass accepted in your country. I don't think it is in mine (USA). I could look up the statistics; probably a certain percent of the people do use homeopathics. But I have never in my lifetime heard anyone I know in person talk about using them. I have heard people online talk about it. These are usually people who are interested in trying all kinds of alternative or 'new age' health methods. They use homeopathic medicine in addition to naturopathic medicine, herbs, diet, and maybe some energy medicine too, and many also use conventional modern medicine. I could be wrong, but to my mind it's more of a novelty, one they have not used for very long and one that they have not used by itself. So they don't have (in my opinion) a good basis for saying it works. (Even online I have only heard one other person talk about the cell salts. I think she took them all daily as a supplement.)
I had not known that homeopathic remedies were accepted by large numbers of people in any country, so your description is new information to me. Perhaps you have not known that in some countries they are used by only small percents of the people.

 

[MRC_Hans]

Aztecs???

The Aztecks sacrificed a human (or more) every day to make the sun rise in the morning. They did so for a long time (we do not know for exactly how long, but centuries). All or most of the Aztecs believed in this, it was even honorable to be sacrificed to make the sun rise.

Morale: Even a large number of people can be wrong for a long time.

Hans

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

I was trying to get him to differentiate between proof and popularity.

Thus far he has been incapable of this.

 

[Benguin]

The Aztecks sacrificed a human (or more) every day to make the sun rise in the morning. They did so for a long time (we do not know for exactly how long, but centuries). All or most of the Aztecs believed in this, it was even honorable to be sacrificed to make the sun rise.

Morale: Even a large number of people can be wrong for a long time.

Hans

Oh, well I'm glad I was close. Cheers

Thus far he has been incapable of this.

Sad but true

 

[Kumar]

The Aztecks sacrificed a human (or more) every day to make the sun rise in the morning. They did so for a long time (we do not know for exactly how long, but centuries). All or most of the Aztecs believed in this, it was even honorable to be sacrificed to make the sun rise.

Morale: Even a large number of people can be wrong for a long time.

Hans

Was it a mass existed & widspread all over the world since long, OR limited to particular community? Is it still existing?

 

[Benguin]

Yep, he missed the point.


How does that make any difference at all?

 

[LostAngeles]

Yep, he missed the point.


How does that make any difference at all?

It's like the Xtianity arguement of, "Well it's been around for over 2000 years. Where are the pagans now, huh? Therefore, we must be right."

This ignores Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, and countless others that are as old, or older.

Therefore, since 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong, the homeopaths are still extant, and the Aztecs are no longer sacrificing to keep the sun moving...

Is there room on that desk for another head dent?

 

[Chris Haynes]

Bump for Olaf . Forget spamming with pointless studies, just answer the questions on the first page.

 

[steenkh]

Yep, he missed the point.


How does that make any difference at all?

Tell him that it was widespread over the whole world. Then Kumar will believe it and will want to get sacrificed too!