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Ah good old James Randi, still trying to kill homeopathy and still hasn't managed to give away his $1 million. (If he really doesn't want it, I'll have it. 🙂 )
We could argue the same case about a lot of other things, including orthodox medications produced by the pharmaceutical companies, but he really does have a bee in his bonnet about homeopathy for some reason. Why doesn't he tackle the issues that are really harming people rather than the ones that, as he says himself, are completely harmless.
Ah, well, I suppose he's been out of the limelight for a while, so it's time for him to boost his ego again. hehe!
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Hi there im just keeping my open mind and minding my own lol. jaxx
He's right about one thing - no one should walk out of a drug store with a homoeopathic product! Go to a homoeopath and get it prescribed properly!
Selling homoeopathic remedies as if they have some kind of pharmaceutical equivalence is nonsense - to be picked off the shelf and self-prescribed from a medical diagnosis - is itself a great way to discredit homoeopathy. But even more, it discredits pharmacies and anyone - such as Randi - who think that alternatives are merely 'medicine lite', and can't see it as fundamental to begin with an entirely different view of the problem.
What is striking in this article is the scoffing at the notion of 'like cures like'. Open the BNF at any page you choose, and you will find therapies that can cause the same problem they are supposed to get rid of. They call them side-effects, well to the holist the word 'side' is meaningless - an effect is an effect, it doesn't go away because you decide you don't want it.
Don't waste your time on these so-called professional skeptics. Randi's trademark is debunking, he's already made up his mind and he's out of a job if he can't find a flaw in homoeopathy. That's not a quest for the truth, it's a quest to prove his own truth - about as unscientific a starting point as you can find.
Was it Randi or the newspaper that labelled homeopathic remedies as 'Drugs'? Serious misnomer - and they certainly don't work to the drug format.
For most things I'd rather 'risk' prescribed homeopathic remedies than the side effects of most drugs.