Dec 4, 2015 07:53 AM
How does homeopathy work?
http://homeopathyaz.com/how-does-homeopathy-work/
EXCERPT: [...] Homeopathic medicines are made using a serial dilution process resulting in 1/10, 1/100 or 1/50,000 ratios, which is why they are frequently dismissed as mere placebos. However, the scientific evidence has repeatedly confirmed that homeopathic remedies are actually “nanoparticles, not ordinary bulk forms of source material”. Dr. Bell asserts that “this fact changes the scientific issues completely from a debate over ‘placebo effects’ to a serious scientific consideration of how nanoparticles can act in the body to stimulate healing processes”. For this reason, homeopathy can probably now best be viewed as a type of nanomedicine....
Skeptic - Debating Homeopathy Part I
http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/03/25/de...more-21868
EXCERPT: [...] It did not surprise me that the audience, and my opponent, were unfamiliar with basic skeptical principles. Andre, in fact, used the word “skeptic” as a pejorative throughout his presentation. The difference in our two positions, in fact, can be summarized as follows: Andre Saine accepts a very low standard of scientific evidence (at least with homeopathy, but probably generally given that he is a naturopath), whereas I, skeptics, and the scientific community generally require a more rigorous standard....
How much do you know about homeopathic “proving” research?
http://homeopathyaz.com/how-much-do-you-...-research/
EXCERPT: [...] A “proving” is a special type of research unique to homeopathy initially developed by its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, (a German physician-chemist who lived in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) that documents the action of homeopathic preparations of specific substances on humans. One of the important and enduring distinctions between homeopathic provings and conventional medical research is that homeopathic medicines (“remedies”) are tested on healthy subjects rather than those who have already succumbed to disease symptoms....
Skeptic - Debating Homeopathy Part II
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index...y-part-ii/
EXCERPT: [...] Yesterday I made the case that homeopathy is highly implausible in many ways, and after two hundred years of scientific advance this extreme implausibility has only become greater. Two centuries has apparently not been enough time for homeopaths to make their case and convince the mainstream scientific community. The only reasonable explanation for this is that homeopathy is simply not valid....
http://homeopathyaz.com/how-does-homeopathy-work/
EXCERPT: [...] Homeopathic medicines are made using a serial dilution process resulting in 1/10, 1/100 or 1/50,000 ratios, which is why they are frequently dismissed as mere placebos. However, the scientific evidence has repeatedly confirmed that homeopathic remedies are actually “nanoparticles, not ordinary bulk forms of source material”. Dr. Bell asserts that “this fact changes the scientific issues completely from a debate over ‘placebo effects’ to a serious scientific consideration of how nanoparticles can act in the body to stimulate healing processes”. For this reason, homeopathy can probably now best be viewed as a type of nanomedicine....
Skeptic - Debating Homeopathy Part I
http://www.skepticblog.org/2013/03/25/de...more-21868
EXCERPT: [...] It did not surprise me that the audience, and my opponent, were unfamiliar with basic skeptical principles. Andre, in fact, used the word “skeptic” as a pejorative throughout his presentation. The difference in our two positions, in fact, can be summarized as follows: Andre Saine accepts a very low standard of scientific evidence (at least with homeopathy, but probably generally given that he is a naturopath), whereas I, skeptics, and the scientific community generally require a more rigorous standard....
How much do you know about homeopathic “proving” research?
http://homeopathyaz.com/how-much-do-you-...-research/
EXCERPT: [...] A “proving” is a special type of research unique to homeopathy initially developed by its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, (a German physician-chemist who lived in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) that documents the action of homeopathic preparations of specific substances on humans. One of the important and enduring distinctions between homeopathic provings and conventional medical research is that homeopathic medicines (“remedies”) are tested on healthy subjects rather than those who have already succumbed to disease symptoms....
Skeptic - Debating Homeopathy Part II
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index...y-part-ii/
EXCERPT: [...] Yesterday I made the case that homeopathy is highly implausible in many ways, and after two hundred years of scientific advance this extreme implausibility has only become greater. Two centuries has apparently not been enough time for homeopaths to make their case and convince the mainstream scientific community. The only reasonable explanation for this is that homeopathy is simply not valid....