Woo of the Week: Jan 16th 2006

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

In case anyone wants a laugh. Look at one of our favourite woos twisting like mad on the hook on which he is snared.

http://www.hpathy.com/homeopathyforums/forum_posts.asp?TID=3680&PN=1

and here trying to evade a simple yes/no question, where either answer would force him to accept that the homs anecdotal evidence is up the creek.

http://www.hpathy.com/homeopathyforums/forum_posts.asp?TID=3831&PN=1

I think 'The Zookeeper' has left the building so Hans might enjoy some new company.

 

[Rolfe]

I take it the reason nobody replied to this yet is that anyone who actually followed the links is still in intensive care....

What's so depressing is the way all the actual homoeos on the board simply back off the discussion, indeed back off any discussion they don't fancy, and in this case leave it entirely up to Neil. The more he departs from homoeopathic orthodoxy, the less anyone comes along to correct him.

I'd still like him to tell us which lab tests he's proposing doing, and how he would interpret the results to show some general improvement in the patient's basic physiology. I don't know any way to do that. I don't know any way to improve on "normal".

Also, someone needs to tell him that it doesn't matter if truncating the trial before all the participants die of old age might fail to reveal the full benefits of homoeopathy. We're still at the stage of wanting to know if the sugar pills do anything at all. Personally, if they can't show some effect within at least a few months, I'd be inclined to give up on the whole idea, and I think most patients would too.

Of course, if he gets his way, the death rate in the study will be 100%, which might tell us something, at least.

Rolfe.

 

[Diamond]

Of course, if he gets his way, the death rate in the study will be 100%, which might tell us something, at least.

Rolfe.

It is 100% if you wait long enough....

 

[Rolfe]

Exactly. He wants the study never to end.

Rolfe.

 

[geni]

I'm sorry but belial over at the supeernatural world forums supasses that by several orders of magnitude. Need to register but:

hollow earth

http://www.thesupernaturalworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=8747&hl=

Aryan Ufos & Antarctic Basis

http://www.thesupernaturalworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=8745&hl=