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CFI (Center for Inquiry) Files Suit against CVS for Homeopathy. Are you a believer in homeopathy?

rogueflyer 8 July 11
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Level 3

Yes. I believe it is a real practice used by some. It has zero medical benefit, but is an excellent idiot detector.

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Level 8

Homeopathy is garbage, like reiki.

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Level 7

Nope, but if I was dying and current medicine wasn't helping I'd try licking frogs if someone told me it would work. Placebo's and hope can be powerful in their own rite.

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Level 9

Not on it's own. Ask Steve Jobs. Oh yea you can't, he's dead.

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Level 8

Do I believe in it? Belief isn't necessary, it does exist, and it's fraudulent medicine.

I don't believe in Bigfoot because the evidence does not support its existence. Homeopathy is even less credible than Bigfoot because the evidence proves it's a fraud.

JimG Level 8 July 11, 2018
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Level 8

Oh yes!!!! Essential oils cured my cancer.

Said no one ever

Essential oils have nothing whatsoever to do with homeopathy. I think many people are confused about what homeopathy actually is.

On the other hand, some essential oils do have benefits. Tea tree oil, for example, is a known and verified antiseptic.
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Level 6

Good Grief, no.

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Level 9

Nope.

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Level 5

This water contains 0.000000000000001% fertiliser. What an absolutely fucking ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd idea is Homeopathy.

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Level 7

We need to go back and look at all healing modalities. Why? it got canned if it didn't make Big Pharm richer.

Do I 'believe' in it... I don't think we have the data to say. Why? I'm using cannibus and moringa to deal with a large number of issues. It WORKS... but both now have lots of science behind them (in other countries ofcourse). So everything should be back on the table for actual study and not bullshit from big pharma or you yoga instructor.

@icolan no...no they really aren't in the eyes of modern western medicine. Moringa still freaks my doc out...TTG's I'm smarter and more science than he is or I'd be stuck with western shit and now be dead.

@MissaDixon But they are not homeopathic ‘remedies’.

@Cassiopeia but they were.

@MissaDixon No, cannabis and moringa are not homeopathic. Homeopathy is a specific practice, which is a system of ‘complementary medicine’ in which ailments are treated by minute doses of natural substances that in larger amounts would produce symptoms of the ailment. And when they say ‘minute doses’ they mean (in most cases) diluted to such a degree that no molecules of the original substance are present - essentially it’s just water.

we have different def's of 'homeopathy' I'll keep mine...and you keep yours.

@MissaDixon no, really, you can’t change the meaning of a word to suit yourself. It’s like doing Pilates and saying that it’s yoga because that’s your definition of the word and you’re keeping it.

@Cassiopeia, @icolan

  1. yes I can
  2. if yours is wrong
  3. or (my personal fav) I need/want too.

How DARE simple ME change the world to meet a new circumstance...You don't have to agree at all...I give no fucks.

@MissaDixon just... smh
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Level 6

Belief in homeopathy is essentially belief in magic.

Source:

[critical-thinking.org.uk]

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Level 8

It is mumbo jumbo merely using the placebo effect to facilitate the bodies ability to heal itself. Thus it has a dismal success rate.

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Level 6

No.

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Level 8

This is not a yes/no issue.

Anyone use aspirin? Digitalis? Or any of the dozens of historically discovered natural remedies.

JacarC Level 8 July 11, 2018
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Homeopathy isn’t just natural remedies, it is the belief that something that causes the symptoms of a disease in a healthy person will have the opposite effect in a person with the disease, so aspirin would have to cause a headache in a healthy person in order for it to truly be homeopathic,

@PDF Exactly my point. Lots of stuff under that umbrella term. Gotta be more specific and understand history.

@PDF too many definitions of the term.
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Level 7

Maybe CFI should spend it's precious funds to fund a medical study to prove that homeopathy is no better than placebo. It has been tried on multiple occasions, but for some reason those studies have failed to do that: [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] It is a real mystery why it has been so difficult to prove that homeopathy is no better than placebo, or what the scientific basis is if it actually works (water memory?).

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