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I challenge you:cite ONE paper that discerns Science from Pseudoscience wth CERTAINTY

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Way to demonstrate the creative power of anarchy!
 
devhdb said:
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You just want to be excused from the requirement of showing that what you're doing works. If homeopathy every cured anyone of anything other than of having a pulse, you wouldn't be here.
 
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Sideroxylon said:
I can totally accept that idea and still see homeopathy as a failed idea. There is certainly no place for products of failed ideas like that in a pharmacy.
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It’s part of the “anarchy” that we don’t take the efficacy of homeopathy as being established on the authority of Sam Hahnemann. We rely on the results of tests of his hypothesis.
 
Dave Rogers said:
To be fair, it never cured anybody of that either. The cessation of having a pulse, like in my grandfather's case, typically arises from not seeking any effective kind of treatment.

Dave
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And if someone chooses homeopathy instead of effective treatment?
 
Dave Rogers said:
To be fair, it never cured anybody of that either. The cessation of having a pulse, like in my grandfather's case, typically arises from not seeking any effective kind of treatment.

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I think a long line of medical practitioners in my family would half agree and half disagree. It is true enough that in sense homeopathy does not kill, but if the belief in it does, the difference is semantic. When action is called for, a call for inaction kills by its very existence.
 
bruto said:
I think a long line of medical practitioners in my family would half agree and half disagree. It is true enough that in sense homeopathy does not kill, but if the belief in it does, the difference is semantic. When action is called for, a call for inaction kills by its very existence.
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By its existence and purporting to cure diseases its practitioners either knew or should have known their pseudoscientific practices could not when real treatments were available it's fair to say the practice killed people. Had they not offered up their methods as be equivalent to or better than real medicine people may not have fallen for the scam. In the sense that they lured people way from life-saving therapies homeopathy has been lethal.

I fully recognize that homeopathy can't actually kill you directly because it's just water.
 
Craig4 said:
You just want to be excused from the requirement of showing that what you're doing works. If homeopathy every cured anyone of anything other than of having a pulse, you wouldn't be here.
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It's proved very effective in cases of very, very mild thirst or chronic heavyness of the wallet.
 
Craig4 said:
Tell me, when you find that the milk in your refrigerator has turned sour, do you put it back in to see if will be better tomorrow?
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I mean, not to blow up your analogy, but isn't that how the rest of the dairy aisle came to be?
 
So people came up with all these wonderful ideas about an ideal rigorous format for scientific practice. The only problem was trawling through the history of science examples of scientists and the establishment breaking these rules could be found, which led to Kuhn writing The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Feyerabend Against Method. Human activity is messy and chaotic but despite/because of that we arrive at solutions/answers to problems. This punk arse system has arrived at quantum mechanics and relativity but also that homeopathy is bullcrap.
 
Being an anarchist doesn't mean you'll give someone change for a three dollar note.
 
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OP, note in your provided quote Feyerabend’s use of the word “progress” in relation to science. This implies judgment between theories. What does he say characterises scientific progress, or history examples?
 
Dr. Keith said:
I mean, not to blow up your analogy, but isn't that how the rest of the dairy aisle came to be?
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(Takes a moment to sob into his hands) Well, yes but in most cases simply putting it back in the fridge won't get you there. You have to do other stuff to it.
 
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