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NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.
... you are making sick people healthy, but not the way we want you to.
If there were a way to cure AIDS with the placebo effect, would we pass it by?
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No, there are a handful of vaccine types, and you described two. All types are currently in use.
And you have no idea how homeopathy works. There's a helluva lot more money behind vaccines, so it's no wonder that their PR prevails.
O lord, bless this thy holy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.
This is another anecdote, but this story leads me to advise others to look into Homeopathy once contemporary options have run out.
A young woman I worked with in her early 20s started getting this crazy itching in her scalp. It felt like it was coming from inside her skull, and scratching would not alleviate the itch. It was driving her crazy, and she quit her job and just stayed home. It got so bad that she could no longer sleep.
She went through several specialists and 10's of thousands of dollars in tests. Nothing they gave her helped, and they deemed the problem inoperable. After months of no REM sleep her body started to shut down, her organs failing, and the doctors gave her only two weeks to live.
As a last ditch effort she went to a Homeopathic doctor. After a 30 minute consult he diagnosed her with a brain parasite, and gave her something to take (liquid copper if I recall correctly) for $50 and told her within two days she would feel better. He was spot on, the itching went away the very next day.
I talked to her mother a year later and she was still perfectly healthy.
Vonnegut was right: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."