Zeno, Hey, why don’t one of you guys get a mail order homeopathy degree,apply for the job and start dispensing those magic beans. Easy £68.000! I’d bet Ben Goldacre could fake it. Reply
Members of the Faculty of Homeopathy, need to be “statutorily registered healthcare professionals” (dentists, doctors, nurses, midwives, osteopaths, pharmacists, podiatrists and veterinary surgeons So this is at least 36,800 pounds for two four hour sessions a week by a quack-nurse, or up to 68,638 pounds for two four hour sessions a week by a doctor who has unlearnt diagnostics and has no real expertise. Ridiculously large salaries for so little knowledge or expertise. Twenty years of really high IT skills doesn’t get me that much. Reply
May be useful prep for anyone who gets an interview. Or perhaps just an interesting compare and contrast: http://bit.ly/9gcZmN vs http://bit.ly/bwtAa0 Best of luck with the applications. Reply
“During each session, one New and 6 -7 Return patients will be seen and homeopathic treatment prescribed”. Quite apart from the quackery and the ludicrrous salary, do NHS trusts normally TELL prospective employees what to do? Just supposing the homeoquackic “doctor” decides that the person does not need any sugar pills prescribed? Does the trust have someone on the board from Ainsworths or Nelsons – or even the mighty Helios (http://www.helios.co.uk/) which has, I think, the most comprehensive list of remedies – but don’t look at it with your mouthful as you might choke. Reply
I’ve thrown my hat in too – but please don’t tell anyone. I want to keep it as potent as possible. Reply
Dear Zeno One question of considerable relevance to the decisions about the appropriateness of provision of homeopathic treatment on the NHS that I think has not yet been addressed please correct me if I am wrong) is whether the preference of the patient for homeopathy affects the magnitude of either the total effects or the specific effects of heomeopathic treatment. A perhaps even more important question is how the preference of the patient for homeopathy effects the magnitude of the total effects and side effects of treatment that is not their preference. [I seem to remember that some research by AF Leuchter at UCLA gave some indication that side effects were greater in treatment that was not prefered but I have not been able to find it.] My reading seems to indicate that the principle factor determining the magnitude of the non-specific effects of treatment is the enthusiasm of both the patient and the practitioner for the treatment. If this is correct research to answer the above question seems reasonable. Reply
My application is “Doctor in Homeopathy? Of course I could do that“. Update to my application here. Reply
In case you really are THAT stupid, the £68,000 is a top scale pay (bottom end being nearly £37,000) and also it is obviously pro-rata Reply
Just to clarify for you, from the article, it reads, the post is for 2 sessions and not for a full-time post (which the pay scale would be based upon) Reply
Most welcome. Hardly took me a minute to read the article and come to that conclusion so not much time wasted. Thank you so much for caring. Reply
Joe Bloggs said. “In case you really are THAT stupid, the £68,000 is a top scale pay (bottom end being nearly £37,000) and also it is obviously pro-rata”. So what? And haven’t you got anything better to do with your time than leave snarky little comments on someone’s blog? Idiot. Reply
Whatever. I’d still like to know why you felt the need to point out that the £68 grand is a top scale pay. What difference do you think it makes? Reply
Joe Bloggs – proud possessor of an petulant tone & piss poor points. I smell a hacked-off homeopath. Reply
Triple Blind studies, Double-Blind Randomised Placebo-Controlled Trial, Systematic Reviews & Meta Analysis, Evidence-base 130+ studies in support of homeopathy medicine published in 52 peer-reviewed international journals here Medicines for specific disease conditions, Ultra-molecular dilutions, Structure & Memory of Water, Animal Studies, Plant Studies P.S.:Remember the links are reciprocal. Let’s reciprocate on each other site. Waiting for a fixed time for approval Reply
Nancy I haven’t deleted your spam comment because I want everyone to know how pathetic your knol page is. Nancy Malik (or to give her her full medical title Nancy Malik) tries to maintain that these 130-odd papers actually support homeopathy. They do nothing of the sort. Xtaldave utterly demolished the vast majority of them in his blog post: Scientific evidence for homeopathy?. I have edited your comment to make the link to your knol page a rel=”nofollow” link so you don’t get any Google credit from your spamming here. Reply
Zeno Your spam comments will also not be deleted until we keep reciprocate on each other site. 20 most Frequently Asked Questions & Answers on Homeopathy Q. How homeopathy medicine provides a strong and stable foundation for your health? Q. What are the preventive medicines in Homeopathy? Q. What are those 14 good reasons that patients choose Homeopathy medicine over conventional as the choice of medical treatment? here Classical homeopathy, constitutional treatment, Role of Symptoms, Homeopathic Consultation Reply
Nancy You obviously have a completely different understanding of the word ‘spam’ to everyone else. You have made the same comment on a large number of websites. I haven’t. You are spamming. I am not. Perhaps your time might be better spent pointing out to xtaldave where he has made mistakes or misunderstood in his complete demolition of your ‘proof’ of homeopathy? Or are you just not able to? Reply
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Nancy You have explained absolutely nothing. Why won’t you address the XtalDave’s criticisms of the papers you cite in support of homeopathy? Just take a few of them and try to show why he is wrong and why you are right. Go on. Give it a go. Reply
His criticism does not stand any worth? I have already told him that homeopathy is growing. http://knol.google.com/k/dr-nancy-malik-bhms/status-of-homeopathy/pocy7w49ru14/7 Click on the link above to know the status of homeopathy all over the world Reply
Nancy said: His criticism does not stand any worth? Are you asking? I have already told him that homeopathy is growing. LOL! Well that settles it, then, doesn’t it. You’ve told XtalDave that homeopathy is growing, therefore his demolition of your ‘evidence’ is wrong? Is that really the best you can do? I’ll ask again: please give us a critique of a few of XtalDave’s demolitions of papers you cited. Reply
Zeno, Did you ever get a response to your FOI request, above? Am a journalist working on a story about homeopathy in the Scottish NHS Reply
I’ve never read such a load of puerile nonsense in my life. The bottom line is that Homeopathy is the medicine of the future and bungling allopathy has had its day. We spend billions of pounds each year on this have a go medicine which we take at our peril. On the other hand, Homeopathy is precise and highly effective, and cost effective. So to all you small minded Luddites out there, carry on your idiocy, it will get you nowhere in the end. Reply
Eddie Thanks for your comment. As and when homeopathy is shown to be efficacious in robust and independent trials that are repeatable and when a plausible mechanism of action is proposed, it might be deserving of the title ‘medicine’. Until then, it is correctly called ‘nonsense’. Reply
Zeno a. Have you or anyone close to you ever had Homeopathic treatment ? b. Are you capable of approaching this subject with an unprejudiced mind ? c. Are you willing to admit that things do happen beyond the molecule ? d. Can you honestly, with hand on heart, accept that the future of medicine lies in chemical substances ? If you can answer yes to all of the above, great, I’ll be more than willing to continue this conversation. Hopefully one day, you’ll wake up to the marvellous smell of coffee. Until then, give these power looms hell Ned Reply
Eddie a. Yes, but it’s irrelevant to the question of whether homeopathy does or doesn’t work or whether there is or isn’t a plausible mechanism of action. b. Yes. All I need to convince me to change my mind is…well, see my previous comment. c. I don’t understand what you mean by the question. d. Since everything consists of ‘chemical substances’, I don’t understand what you mean by the question. Reply
Zeno Just as I suspected, you don’t have any meaningful answers to any of my question so we’ll better just leave it there. Reply
Zeno I think you should stop digging! Ignorance is not a virtue. My advice to you is that if you don’t even have as much as half a clue about a subject, you shouldn’t be engaging in a critical conversation about it. Reply
Zeno The questions are basic to anyone with an open mind on the subject of Homeopathy and similar vibrational branches of medicine and I’m amazed you are struggling to answer them. It’s probably not your fault. You are probably typical of this sound byte culture we live in. I’m going to call a halt here because I think this conversation has run its useful course. Reply
Having an open mind about homeopathy has nothing to do with whether your questions had any discernible meaning and that’s why I’m ‘struggling’ to answer them. Let’s look at them. I answered questions a and b. c. Are you willing to admit that things do happen beyond the molecule ? I have no doubt you think you know what you mean by ‘beyond the molecule’, but can you tell me whether you are referring to something that isn’t molecular, something smaller than a molecule, something bigger than a molecule or something else? d. Can you honestly, with hand on heart, accept that the future of medicine lies in chemical substances ? Before I could answer that question, I need to know what you mean by ‘chemical substances’. My understanding of chemistry (which I believe to be nothing different to the usual informed understanding of it) tells me everything is composed of ‘chemical substances’. So, to me — and to many others — since everything is composed of ‘chemical substances’ it’s difficult to guess at what you mean. If you’d like an answer, you’ll need to explain what it is you are trying to ask. So, it’s not (as you assert) that I’m struggling to answer your questions, it’s that I’m struggling to understand what you mean by your questions. Also, in your last comment, you referred to ‘vibrational branches of medicine’. Can you explain what you mean? What vibrations are you referring to? Any examples of a vibration? PS Please refrain from assuming you know anything about me. Reply
I’d like to know the point of Eddie’s first question. I’m close to Zeno and I’ve used homeopathy. And? Reply
Hi Skepticat If you’ve had proper homeopathic treatment and I don’t mean isopathy where you self diagnose and pick up off the shelve at Boots, you’ll know that homeopathy works Reply