Homeopathic Medicine Is Homeo-Pathetic a Forbes article

[skyhand]

This industry is more Harry Potter than Watson and Crick. The title is very fitting for homeopathy. I bet you can guess who the first couple of people to comment on the article are.

[SezMe]

Linky?

[skyhand]

Forgot to put a link.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/11/homeopathic-alternative-medicine-opinions-contributors-miller-dan.html

[steenkh]

So the American Medical Association is now viewing homoeopathy courses as part of medical education?

Sad.

[Pipirr]

Oh look, Mr. Ullman showed up in the comments.

[Rolfe]

Oh look, Mr. Ullman showed up in the comments.


Wow, how does he find them so fast? Does he have some sort of spider picking up these articles, then drops everything and rushes to respond every time the bell rings?

Rolfe.

[Mojo]

I see he's citing Linde 1997 but not Linde 1999. Plus ça change...

[Mojo]

I see James Pannozzi (AKA ScepticsBane) is there as well, citing his usual studies. You don't usually see both of them on the same thread.

[skyhand]

I came across the article last night and checked out the comments noticed that there were just 3 comments. When I saw who the 3 were from I checked out the date of the article. I had to look at the date twice. Today is August 11! Like Rolfe said "Wow, how does he find them so fast?" Could it be that with all the money he makes from woo that he is a regular reader of Forbes? The effects of homeopathy may not be real, but the money from marketing it is. The first one there to defend homeopathy wasn't a neutral party, but one of the biggest names in the business of homeopathy.

[Mojo]

Wow, how does he find them so fast?


Google News alerts.

[Chris Haynes]

Wow, how does he find them so fast? Does he have some sort of spider picking up these articles, then drops everything and rushes to respond every time the bell rings?

Rolfe.

I read somewhere (BadScience forum? A couple of years ago? About the time he was pushing his "famous people like Darwin used homeopathy" book.) that he posted a helpful hint on a homoepathic forum where he said he set up an Google RSS feed to notify him of where there were new discussions on homeopathy.

[Rocko]

I read somewhere (BadScience forum? A couple of years ago? About the time he was pushing his "famous people like Darwin used homeopathy" book.) that he posted a helpful hint on a homoepathic forum where he said he set up an Google RSS feed to notify him of where there were new discussions on homeopathy.

I remember that; I've got a feeling it was on the Guardian website, actually.

He's basically the alt med version of Candyman.

[TheDaver]

Oh look, Mr. Ullman showed up in the comments.
Do as I do: Respond, report and move on.