The Stream - The homeopathy controversy

Homeopathy is a way of treating the patient not the disease. The way it work is totally impossible to explain with conventional science.

The sad thing is that a video like this will only ever be seen by people who already don't believe in homeopathy. People who believe in bs like this will never take actual information to heart.

If this is all placebo effect, then how it works on infants.

The enduring popularity of organised religion tells us that people can be very easily persuaded to believe in anything.

I had continuous nightmares. A homeopath gave me those sucrose pellets which I thought won't work. In 2 days, nightmares are completely gone.

Millions swears by it because it WORKS. To know, just TRY and ignore the noise.

The gulability of people is astounding

And... the professor of pharmacology lights up a pipe. Case closed! 😂

The reason homeopathy is used and practised by millions globally is that people find it is beneficial, often in remarkable and striking ways. They find that the homoeopathic approach, which sees conditions and illnesses in terms of the persons who have them, not in a one-size- fits-all way, is highly effective. They also welcome homeopathy's freedom from the side effects which hamper so many conventional medicines. The reason homeopathy arouses such strong dismissal, as we see here with Dr Colquhoun, is nothing to do with evidence but with the fact that homeopathy undermines the fundamental, prior worldview of reductive materialism which is the standard orthodoxy. It isn't that homeopathy doesn't work, but rather that, on this view, it cannot work. As far as evidence is concerned, as the Homeopathy Research Institute has shown, 271 randomised controlled trials up to the end of 2022 (157 double-blind, placebo-controlled), have yielded results 43% positive, 3% negative, 54% inconclusive. Results from similar trials for conventional medicines are astonishingly similar: 45% positive, 10% negative, 45% inconclusive. Homeopathy is also 1.5 to 2.0 times more effective than placebo. Clearly, far more quality research needs to be done on the effectiveness of homeopathy and into how it works- which it certainly does.

The old man ridiculing Homeopathy is smoking Lol. I am having hysterical fits Lol.

Drop a paracetamol in a bath of water, take a cup of that water and add it to another bath full of water. Do that 48 more times and you get Homeopathy.

oh my God... that guy likes to shock people after giving them a placebo... weird!

Wonderful

One point to make after 5 years when we know the all scientist who believes that antidepressants works but they agreed now that they don’t understand the mechanisms and how they works. So we have cases in modern medicine like homeopathy. But the question is despite the fact we don’t know how homeopathy works but do they really work? The reaserch about that is not sufficient. So we should be more open minded.

That medicine is not placebo but that mixing in alcohol direct a part of crude and that acting slowlly on nerves system the body resistance system acting against

I have used Homeopathic medicine for 50 years and it has always worked very well for me. However Homeopathic medicine has a protocol that has to be followed, such as do not take with Caffeine or Mint or other things like strong oils, which can cancel it. I looked up Homeopathic medicine on Wikipedia and they say it is a Pseudo-Science, but then I am very much aware of some of the errors published on Wikipedia. I am a Metallurgist, Precious Metal Refiner and Assayer and I know my Elements very well and when I looked up info on Fe 60 on Wikipedia, it was easy for me to see many errors published by them. I wonder if they also do this in areas where I am not as knowledgeable??

Ok till the time no proper explanation comes in support of Homeopathy...... We homoeopaths are still the best placebo therapists....now counter this. 😎

Why does Peter call himself a doctor if he isn't a doctor?

It is always about money. Ask Big Pharma

it has medicine in it but no drugs