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 Monday June 22, 2009 13:08 by Mark Boyle - The Freeconomy Community mark at justfortheloveofit dot org 0775 886 1783
 This week's Freeskilling (www.justfortheloveofit.org) is called *Homeopathy in the 21st Century* and takes place at the Better Food Co, Sevier St, St. Werburghs @ 7pm Tues 30th June. (NB - Note the error on the poster! It is NOT happening outside the St Werburghs City Farm Cafe, that was a mistake!) For those of you interested in the complete Freeskilling June July 2009 line-up, go to the following address - |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3It's FREE? I should think so, too. You could hardly expect people to pay to hear some mumbo-jumbo theories from a couple of quacks.
So, the snake oil salesmen are now trying to give the stuff away; sounds like progress.
Time after time, properly conducted scientific studies have proved that homeopathic remedies work no better than simple placebos. So why do so many sensible people swear by them? And why do homeopaths believe they are victims of a smear campaign? Ben Goldacre follows a trail of fudged statistics, bogus surveys and widespread self-deception
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/16/sciencene...ws.g2
Charlatons the lot of them.
Don't waste your time folks
Agreed - although I think it's a much better strategy to be offically polite about this and avoid too much much use of the term 'quack'. For the most part, homeos and 'healers' and whatever - the ones I've actually come across in person - are not foolish or stupid, though they are very much mistaken.
It becomes dangerous when society starts to give official sanction to stuff like homeopathy.
But, more to the point here, it's also highly embarrassing and problematic when *we* (us
tree-huggers, enviros, transition-townists and sustainabilists and the rest) start giving
our implied approval to stuff like this (ever read the ads in 'spark'?)