Another article debunking homeopathy

[Blue Wode]

This month's Student BMJ online has published an article critical of homeopathy. It was written by a medical student studying in India. Can't post links yet, but it can be found on Google. Here are the details:

Homoeopathy: a pseudoscience?
Balaji Ravichandran, Student BMJ, February 2006

[Ryokan]

Good to see stuff like that coming from India!

[ohms]

Here (http://www.studentbmj.com/issues/06/02/education/63.php) is the article.

[Nucular]

The link: http://www.studentbmj.com/issues/06/02/education/63.php

A good article, despite the author's unfortunate (for a medical student) misuse of the term 'allopathy'.

ETA: curses, just beaten by Ohms. Ohms, why do you offer such resistance to homeopathy? ;)

[burrahobbit]

Great article.

The use of the word allopathy for scientific medicine is widespread in India.

[Zep]

It needs to be published all around the world.

And he has actually made an arithmetic booboo - his ratios are WAY too BIG.And the second: the potency of a remedy can be increased by a process called dynamisation or potentiation, in which the therapeutic liquids are diluted to incredible proportions (of up to 1 in 1060).More like 1 in 10^60, 1060, or the digit 1 with 60 zeroes after it. In fact (and making the big assumption that homeopathic remedies are ever prepared properly at all), the dilution ratio is often much higher than that.

[Nucular]

Great article.

The use of the word allopathy for scientific medicine is widespread in India.
It's widespread in those who dabble with alt.med in Europe & the US (I think) too - doesn't make it correct usage (http://www.ncahf.org/articles/a-b/allopathy.html) though.

[Mojo]

The use of the word allopathy for scientific medicine is widespread in India.Which is kind of ironic considering the apparent overlap between practitioners of homoeopathy and ayurveda in India, ayurveda being a genuinely allopathic system (i.e. one based on the idea of balancing "humours").