About Homeopathy- conceptions and missconceptions

[Bastian]

Just One Drop — The Science of Homeopathy
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Story at a glance:

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• Unlike traditional medicine (allopathy) that combats disease with opposing treatments, homeopathy uses similar remedies under the principle that “like cures like”

I'm sorry, but you're writing about conventional medecine ("evidence based" medecine with synthetic chemical drugs from Big Pharma, as promoted by Rockfeller's foundation), not traditional medecine.

Traditional medecine in Europe (and elsewhere too) included, for instance, phytotherapy : during Middle Age, christian monks in monasteries cultivated medicinal herbs, to create herbal drugs (check this WP article in French about this).
But also bleeding/bloodletting... (mocked by Molière in his famous play "Le Malade imaginaire", The Imaginary Invalid).
Etc.

Traditional medecines from other civilisations, such as China and India, "survived" better and are more well-known.

• Homeopathy is in wide use in European and Asian countries and even practiced by Britain's royal family

Lots of famous people do lots of weird things for health (or wealth), up to black magic... So what ?

• Despite claims that there’s no scientific evidence for homeopathy’s effectiveness, there are 300 double-blind and placebo-controlled trials published in peer- reviewed medical journals showing its benefits

Is there a list of these ? I would be interested to check them (if I find time).

Last time I checked a meta-analysis on this point, there were maybe 20, 50 or 100 times more quality trials invalidating homeopathy rather than validating it...

• The widely cited 2015 Australian National Health and Medical Research Council information paper that found no evidence of homeopathy’s effectiveness was marred by conflicts of interest and questionable methodology, according to a documentary

So what ?

That one paper against homeopathy is of bad quality, you can conclude nothing (people, including scientists, have some troubles with objectivity, particularly when there are careers / money / politics / religions / etc. involved...).
There are also bad quality studies/papers for homeopathy, FYI.

 

[Third_Density_Resident]

Last time I checked a meta-analysis on this point, there were maybe 20, 50 or 100 times more quality trials invalidating homeopathy rather than validating it...

Who funded those studies? Like with anything that challenges the status quo, especially something that jeopardises an extremely lucrative industry (e.g. the medical industry), this is one of the most important questions to be asking before taking at face value the "findings" of these studies. Couple this with the demonstrably corrupt peer-review system, and the inevitable result is that the truth never really sees the light of day in mainstream channels/publications.

 

[Jacques]

Introducing Homeopathy - the film is available to watch freely up to April 18Th from this website :

Homeopathy Thank You Page

childrenshealthdefense.org

By the way, if you want more info about homeopathy, looks for the work, his research and the story of his foundator Dr Samule Hahnemann.

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