[Merged] Nauseating Homeopaths decide it's PR they need not evidence

Badly Shaved Monkey · 7th December 2010, 02:30 PM

Thanks to Andy Lewis at Quackometer for highlighting this classic example of homeopaths completely missing the point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzdyQds4xRQ

http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010...nsultants.html

Does anyone else get the feeling that the PR "expert" uses the same spiel time after time, but has inserted "homeopathy" this time where he might have said "low calorie beer" or "female sanitary wear" without dropping a beat?

Rolfe · 7th December 2010, 02:32 PM

Nearly 13 minutes? BSM, you know not what you ask!

Rolfe.

EAT: Flash player crashed after about a minute and a half. Now there's a programme with taste and discernment.

Badly Shaved Monkey · 7th December 2010, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by Rolfe

Nearly 13 minutes? BSM, you know not what you ask!

Rolfe.

EAT: Flash player crashed after about a minute and a half. Now there's a programme with taste and discernment.

I didn't say it wasn't a test of endurance and gastric capacity.

Deetee · 10th December 2010, 06:12 AM

Browsing around the topic of homeopathy, I see that the Homeopathy Action Trust recently held a ~~small gathering~~, sorry, ..an "international summit" in a room in Cambridge, England in which they were looking at how to rebrand homeopathy (One vision, one voice)

Seems they want to market it by developing a universal symbol for homeopathy, develop websites "Homeopathy worked for me", pilot tweet projects, lobby MPs and legislators, create a global umbrella organisation, and disturbingly they wish to press on with their efforts in developing countries and hold a Worldwide conference in 2013.

Grand ideas, but by the look of the conference, it appears to be a pretty low key sort of "one man and his dog" affair.

Has anyone heard whether this is going anywhere?

Emet · 10th December 2010, 12:19 PM

Have you seen gimpy's blog?

Rolfe · 10th December 2010, 01:18 PM

Ahem....

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=194091

Rolfe.

Helen · 11th December 2010, 01:19 AM

They have an organisation called HAT? Through which they speak? I like that.

Rolfe · 11th December 2010, 02:05 AM

Rolfe.

7th December 2010, 02:30 PM	#1
Badly Shaved Monkey Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Outside a banana and far from a razor Posts: 5,262	Nauseating Homeopaths decide it's PR they need not evidence Thanks to Andy Lewis at Quackometer for highlighting this classic example of homeopaths completely missing the point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzdyQds4xRQ http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010...nsultants.html Does anyone else get the feeling that the PR "expert" uses the same spiel time after time, but has inserted "homeopathy" this time where he might have said "low calorie beer" or "female sanitary wear" without dropping a beat?
	__________________ "i'm frankly surprised homeopathy does as well as placebo" Anonymous homeopath. "Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right." (Robert Park) Is the pen is mightier than the sword? Its effectiveness as a weapon is certainly enhanced if it is sharpened properly and poked in the eye of your opponent.

7th December 2010, 02:32 PM	#2
Rolfe Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NT 150 511 Posts: 34,305	Nearly 13 minutes? BSM, you know not what you ask! Rolfe. EAT: Flash player crashed after about a minute and a half. Now there's a programme with taste and discernment.
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7th December 2010, 11:57 PM	#3
Badly Shaved Monkey Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Outside a banana and far from a razor Posts: 5,262	Originally Posted by Rolfe Nearly 13 minutes? BSM, you know not what you ask! Rolfe. EAT: Flash player crashed after about a minute and a half. Now there's a programme with taste and discernment. I didn't say it wasn't a test of endurance and gastric capacity.
	__________________ "i'm frankly surprised homeopathy does as well as placebo" Anonymous homeopath. "Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right." (Robert Park) Is the pen is mightier than the sword? Its effectiveness as a weapon is certainly enhanced if it is sharpened properly and poked in the eye of your opponent.

10th December 2010, 06:12 AM	#4
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,790	Homeopaths - new strategies? Browsing around the topic of homeopathy, I see that the Homeopathy Action Trust recently held a ~~small gathering~~, sorry, ..an "international summit" in a room in Cambridge, England in which they were looking at how to rebrand homeopathy (One vision, one voice) Seems they want to market it by developing a universal symbol for homeopathy, develop websites "Homeopathy worked for me", pilot tweet projects, lobby MPs and legislators, create a global umbrella organisation, and disturbingly they wish to press on with their efforts in developing countries and hold a Worldwide conference in 2013. Grand ideas, but by the look of the conference, it appears to be a pretty low key sort of "one man and his dog" affair. Has anyone heard whether this is going anywhere?
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,790	__________________ "Reci bobu bob a popu pop." - Tanja "Everything is physics. This does not mean that physics is everything." - Cuddles "The entire practice of homeopathy can be substituted with the advice to "take two aspirins and call me in the morning." - Linda "Homeopathy: I never knew there was so little in it." - BSM

10th December 2010, 12:19 PM	#5
Emet Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 3,395	Have you seen gimpy's blog?
Emet Illuminator Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 3,395

10th December 2010, 01:18 PM	#6
Rolfe Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NT 150 511 Posts: 34,305	Ahem.... http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=194091 Rolfe.
	__________________ "The way we vote will depend, ultimately, on whether we are persuaded to hope or to fear." - Aonghas MacNeacail, June 2012.

11th December 2010, 01:19 AM	#7
Helen Implicitly explicit Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Here. Or very nearly getting there, at least. Posts: 2,141	They have an organisation called HAT? Through which they speak? I like that.

11th December 2010, 02:05 AM	#8
Rolfe Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NT 150 511 Posts: 34,305	Rolfe.
	__________________ "The way we vote will depend, ultimately, on whether we are persuaded to hope or to fear." - Aonghas MacNeacail, June 2012.