I think this supports your point! http://blog.anarchic-teapot.net/2011/10/23/wctb-cam-that-actually-works/ Reply
Heh. “Homeopathy is a form of holistic medicine in which treatment is tailored to the individual. Holistic – because you get whole sugar pills, not just bits of ones. And tailored, because the label on your bottle of sugar pills will be tailored to you, the individual.” Reply
The biggest problem imo is the continuing use of the word “evidence”, as if there is just the tiniest modicum of evidence, by critics. When we say “there is no robust evidence” it presents the idea that with more research more evidence will be acquired. But in reality, and for all practical purposes, there is no evidence to support any use of homeopathy, and all the actual evidence incontrovertibly supports the fact that homeopathy has no medical or therapeutic value. For as long as the idea is presented that statistical anomalies constitute evidence (by describing it as “not robust”) then homeopaths will always have a line with which to rescue themselves. Homeopathy is the business of medical fraud, and in any other sphere of business it would be accepted as fraud and treated accordingly. Reply
I think it’s also a mistake to continue to fall into the trap of false descriptions, so much a part of Alternative Reality Medicine rhetoric. “Alternative”, “conventional” and “medicine” for a start. Reply
I think your comparison between using homeopathy vs a cup of tea alongside real medicine is unfair. Tea has some known, and mostly positive, effects on the body, over that of a placebo. Reply
As an Englishman, I am both outraged and deeply offended at your implication that homeopathy is as effective as a nice cup of tea. A more accurate analogy might be obtained by first dropping the cup of tea into the Atlantic Ocean before serving. If we let “facts” like this slip through unchallenged, pretty soon we’ll all be drinking coffee, and then where will be? Eh? EH? Standards slipping,end of civilisation, dogs and cats living together. Reply
Sir, I and my fellow WCTB practitioners wish to protest at any assimilation of WCTB with homeopathy. WCTB therapy works. It is also cheap. Homeopathy does not work and is extremely expensive. Your faithfully The Phantom Teapot Reply
Oh dear. I have upset the tea drinkers, haven’t I? I do partake but my preferred beverage is a good fresh coffee. I’m all for choice, of course, but before any homeopathists jump in, I don’t remember having seen any misleading healthcare claims about tea being made in adverts to the public. Nor does the NHS spend millions on it, proclaiming it to be a treatment for numerous health conditions. Reply
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 centilitres of tea is optimum. Plus or minus 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009 centilitres Any less tea and it becomes physically dangerous. For example this amount of tea is probably suicidal: 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 centilitres Any more tea and its effect is reduced. This amount will certainly have no effect at all: 25 centilitres Reply
I know a bloke who had his first cup of tea last year. 3 months after he had an arm severed due to an accident with an industrial centrifuge. So: I would like to warn everybody about tea-drinking (old jokes are the best,you know) Reply