Smitty
Well-Known Member
Because the placebo effect can make people feel better but it won't cure them. For the 'small' thinngs you may well ask 'whats the problem' but the issue is it promotes pseudoscience so people don't understand have evidence based medicine work and then try to apply the same flawed principles to more complex/life threatening illness. Its sad enough when an adult refuses treatment that could actually cure/prelong their life in favour of homeopathy etc, but its a tragedy when science illiterate parents reject treatment for their children in favour of quackery. For example (not homepathy but same principle as above):
I hope nobody is suggesting that people forego medical/veterinary advice in favour of 'natural' remedies, but I had 3 lots of antibiotics last year (2 different sorts for a sinus infection and 1 lot for pleurisy), none of which worked and in desparation I turned to homeopathy which for whatever reason, and I actually don't care what it was, did. This did make me wonder if when I contracted pneumonia whilst in hospital a few years ago, instead of the different types of antibiotics they used to try and clear it up (I think they tried 3 types), maybe another approach would have worked better.
I mentioned in my last post that I had met a chap out riding who had been cured of cancer by homeopathy. I do not remember the details at all now, but did feel at the time he must have been very very brave to go down that path. I actually do not remember if he had tried 'conventional' medicine first. I am damned sure I would.