Proof from the Health Ranger! PROOF!

[Wheezebucket]

I was reading up on the homeopathy article linked to in this week's Swift and I saw this article - http://www.newstarget.com/001951.html - It seems that the homeopathic horde have found undeniable evidence that homeopathic water "works".

Here's the part I thought I'd share -

"Nevertheless, the end result of this is that the amazing James Randi will probably end up being $1 million poorer because he has been so foolish as to offer a $1 million reward to the first person who can prove the scientific validity of homeopathy. Well, apparently this proof has already been completed, and now it will probably be a game of continued denials from James Randi in order to avoid paying out the $1 million reward. He will probably say, "Okay, the lab results look solid, but until you can explain how it works, it's not proven." And that's how he will deny actually paying the claim to people who have now scientifically proven that homeopathy is real -- something Randi adamantly insists is untrue."

and...(emphasis mine)

"People like Dr. Stephen Barrett and James Randi are not scientists at all. They are, in every sense, feeble-minded skeptics who probably don't even believe in their own souls. I bet they didn't see this one coming -- homeopathy is real, folks. It's been proven, and it's been proven in a way that meets the most demanding requirements of the scientific method. If you are a true scientist, and you review the available studies on homeopathy, you either have to conclude that homeopathy is real, or you have to conclude that every law of science and truth upon which modern medicine is based is invalid."

He is very worked up over this new "evidence" they've got over there. It's kinda fun to read this guy's articles.

 

[Mojo]

I was reading up on the homeopathy article linked to in this week's Swift and I saw this article - http://www.newstarget.com/001951.html - It seems that the homeopathic horde have found undeniable evidence that homeopathic water "works".

If you are a true scientist, and you review the available studies on homeopathy, you either have to conclude that homeopathy is real, or you have to conclude that every law of science and truth upon which modern medicine is based is invalid.

Actually, if homoeopathy is real, quite a lot of them are invalid.

He is very worked up over this new "evidence" they've got over there. It's kinda fun to read this guy's articles.

And it's actually not that new: he posted the story back in 2004. I wonder why we haven't heard more about it.

 

[Mojo]

I like this bit as well:

Today the germ theory is accepted as real and verifiable. But that's only because scientists and doctors can readily see these germs using microscopes. Before microscopes were invented, any doctor who proposed that disease could be caused by a doctor not washing his hands and touching two patients in sequence would have been called a lunatic or a quack. In fact, doctors did not engage in any sort of hand washing for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease until the germ theory became accepted.

The accidental father of the germ theory, a Hungarian physician known as Dr. Semmelweis, was fired and ostracized from the medical community in the mid 1800's for even proposing the idea that disease was caused by invisible, microscopic, undetectable organisms. In fact, after fighting to publicize the truth about microorganisms for fifteen years, Semmelweis was declared insane by doctors and committed to an insane asylum. (Sounds a lot like modern medicine, doesn't it?)

Now where exactly does the germ theory fit into homoeopathy?

 

[Zep]

Semmelweis hardly discovered germs by accident. In fact he never "discovered germs" at all; and he probably never even saw them. His theories were to do with "contact infection", and he was extremely dilligent in seeking out the conditions under which it thrived, and also under which it could be controlled. His results were the result of good science, keen observation, and proper reasoning.

That he was a Jewish doctor living in a generally anti-semitic Vienna, an immigrant Hungarian Jew at that, and a political activist as well, had nothing to do with his persecution, of course!

 

[Wheezebucket]

Wow, I didn't even see the original date on the article, nice save! After all this time, you'd think there would have been some more waves about all that proof he dug up.

 

[jj]

What was his "proof" anyhow?

 

[Mojo]

This, I suspect.

 

[Zep]

Aaah! The study commissioned by Boiron, the world's largest producer of expensive bottled water and sugar pills...sorry, homeopathic remedies.