British Drs skewer homepaths - again

Just like the canadian cancer quack, what they are filmed saying to a client hiding a camera is the opposite of what they will say when actually face to face with a camera.
 
This is a perfect opportunity. Take the major advocates and supporters of homeopathy (including Prince Charles, if necessary) to a malaria-infected region of the world. Let them take their remedies, but deny them access to conventional medicine. Then, once they get infected, let them try to explain, in front of a national TV audience, what went wrong.
 
She said that she was about to go to a malaria infested country. They all recommended doses of homeopathic remedies.

These were 99.99% water with an almost undetectable trace of quinine.
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Shouldn't that be "99.99% water with an almost undetectable trace of Maleria"?

Quinines the known cure, shouldn't they be using a minute concentration of Maleria to treat the like, or have Homeopathists found out that conventional medicine actually enhances their potions. Amazing foresight.:rolleyes:
 
Sir Arthur Mortal Coyle said:
Shouldn't that be "99.99% water with an almost undetectable trace of Maleria"?

Quinines the known cure, shouldn't they be using a minute concentration of Maleria to treat the like, or have Homeopathists found out that conventional medicine actually enhances their potions. Amazing foresight.:rolleyes:
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No, they just make it up as they go along.
 
Sir Arthur Mortal Coyle said:
Shouldn't that be "99.99% water with an almost undetectable trace of Maleria"?

Quinines the known cure, shouldn't they be using a minute concentration of Maleria to treat the like, or have Homeopathists found out that conventional medicine actually enhances their potions. Amazing foresight.:rolleyes:
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Actually they do "use" quinine (by "use" I mean that they wash away all traces of quinine). The first "homeopathic provings" where on quinine "remedies" and it was Samuel Hahnemann's (possibly allergic) reaction to quinine which first put the nonsense of "like cures like" into his head.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
Just like the canadian cancer quack, what they are filmed saying to a client hiding a camera is the opposite of what they will say when actually face to face with a camera.
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At the moment they are trying to get homoeopathy (and other forms of sCAM) "integrated" into the NHS. That's why they're pushing it as "complementary" rather than "alternative"; they want to give the impression that it will be used in conjunction with orthodox treatments. The homoeopathic establishment is trying to play down the constant attacks on "allopathy", the harping on about side-effects, the claims that "allopathy" makes conditions worse by "supressing" the symptoms rather than treating the disease...

And then the BBC goes and undermines this by finding out what homoeopaths actually do...
 
Sir Arthur Mortal Coyle said:
Shouldn't that be "99.99% water with an almost undetectable trace of Maleria"?
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The 99.99% water claim doesn't go nearly far enough, of course. Not nearly enough nines! Even if the mother tincture was pure quinine (or whatever the "active" ingredient is - one of the remedies they were suggesting seems to be made from swamp water), this would only be a 2C praparation. I haven't seen any indication of the potencies being recommended, but they will almost certainly have been at least 6x (99.9999% water) or 6c (99.9999999999% water). They may well have been 30c or 30x or higher, by which point trying to express it as a percentage is just silly; there is less than one molecule of the mother tincture present.
 
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