Annoying Homeopath blogging in my local paper

[Ashles]

On the website of my local paper (The Argus) there is a section for a few bloggers.

One, a homeopath, has really taken full advantage of the opportunity to peddle her homeopathic wares.

My attention was first drawn by her when she wrote a nonsensical rant against Richard Dawkins when he dared to criticise homeopathy. Her ramblings include post-Einsteinian science, Big Pharma, Quantum Mechanics and energy. Obviously she doesn't understand any of it.

Sarah Whittaker's blog (http://www.theargus.co.uk/lifehealth/readerblogs/thehomeopathblog/)

And here is the specific entry about Dawkins
Is Dawkins deluded (http://www.theargus.co.uk/lifehealth/readerblogs/thehomeopathblog/index.var.6386.0.is_dawkins_deluded.php)

Be warned - she is very annoying.

[Miss Anthrope]

Your comment war with her is much better reading than her blog. I hate to use net speak, but you PWNED her on QM.

[Miss Anthrope]

ARRRG! From the comment section:

people who don't want to try homeopathy always delve into the minute detail of why it doesn't fit their scientific views - whether it does or doesn't isn't really why they do it though, its just a way to ignore the rest of an article saying TRY THIS IT WORKS IT WILL HELP YOU! the creator of homeopathy was a doctor who found he got better results with his patients with the new methods he tried than the old, thank goodness he was broader minded than scientists today or i would still have social phobia and hives all over my legs and my boyfriend would still suffer from depression.

[Soapy Sam]

My toaster didn't work very well.
I tried homoeopathy and now my toaster doesn't work very well.
But I'm sure it helped.

[Madalch]

My browser shows this page with the words "plain wrong" directly under her picture, just like a caption. You've made my morning.

[NorwegianSquirrel]

Oh, I just love the books she's recommending: "Energy Medicine - The Scientific Basis" and "Virtual Medicine - a new dimension in energy healing"

Maybe it's just me, but those titles sounds like more new age than scientific... But what do I know..?

[Lothian]

My toaster didn't work very well.
I tried homoeopathy and now my toaster doesn't work very well.
But I'm sure it helped.It did help.

It is well known that homeopathic treatments are not instantaneous. Indeed if your toaster were initially to get worse it is a sure sign the homeopathy was working.

Nowadays homeopathy is not so much as an alternative to conventional treatments as a complement. If you sent your toaster to an electrician at the same time as giving the homeopathy I am sure you would see a rapid improvement.

[Ashles]

ARRRG! From the comment section:

i would still have social phobia and hives all over my legs and my boyfriend would still suffer from depression
Is it wrong of me to want to laugh at that sentence?

[Blue Wode]

Oh, I just love the books she's recommending: "Energy Medicine - The Scientific Basis" and "Virtual Medicine - a new dimension in energy healing"

Maybe it's just me, but those titles sounds like more new age than scientific... But what do I know..?


Apparently "Energy Medicine - The Scientific Basis" is crammed full of woo mumbo jumbo. Skeptic Magazine published a great critical review of it a couple of years ago…


"ENERGY MEDICINE" INCLUDES therapeutic touch, craniosacral therapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, and numerous other alternative medicine practices. It usually implies a vitalistic philosophy-something immaterial produces life and health in a material body. James Oschman believes that the phenomena of energy medicine can be studied, measured, and explained by science without invoking any mysterious life forces or unmeasurable subtle energies. He marshals a large body of experimental evidence and argument to try to support his thesis.

In the foreword, Candace Pert sets a strange tone for a scientific book by describing how Dr. Oschman "pulled" some energy away from her "stagnant" liver. She tells us the body is "a liquid crystal under tension capable of vibrating at a number of frequencies, some in the range of visible light," with "different emotional states, each with a predominant peptide ligand-induced 'tone' as an energetic pattern which propagates throughout the bodymind.." If you are hoping the book will explain what this means, you will be disappointed.



You can read the whole article here:

http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2006/01/review-of-energy-medicine-scientific.html

[George152]

It did help.

It is well known that homeopathic treatments are not instantaneous. Indeed if your toaster were initially to get worse it is a sure sign the homeopathy was working.

Nowadays homeopathy is not so much as an alternative to conventional treatments as a complement. If you sent your toaster to an electrician at the same time as giving the homeopathy I am sure you would see a rapid improvement.

Pouring a homeopatheitc solution into your toaster should only be done while the toaster is unplugged.
Any thing else could have a shocking result