More Homeopathy Apologetics

[HuckleB]

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1383

"It seems that one criterion to being a practicing homeopath is the requirement to publicly embarrass oneself . Dana Ullman now regularly does this over at the Huffington Post. Dr. Werner, however, in a single YouTube video, may have won for the most embarrassing homeopathy nonsense of the year. Her mutilation of Einstein and relativity is self-parody.

Here’s another one from John Benneth – the science of homeopathy. He discusses the latest nonsense about “nanocrystalloids” in homeopathic remedies which emit radio frequencies. This is just empty jargon to jazz up the same false claims of homeopaths that their remedies contain the energy signature or essence of what was diluted in them. But this is not supported by any reputable science.

And here is the recent review by The Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee on homeopathy in the UK where Robert Wilson of the British Association of Homeopathic Manufacturers admits that there is no evidence to support the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies, but they sell them anyway.

And now, Amy L. Lansky, PhD, a computer scientist and now homeopathy proponent, writing for Mercola.com (a site that promotes every sort of medicine – as long as it is unscientific), decides to enter the fray for the most embarrassing homeopathy apologetics. After a bit of whining about persecution, she attacks homeopathy’s critics, referring to a recent editorial by Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst ...

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http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1383


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If it weren't so despicable, it would make me laugh.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Hah! Nanocrystaloids! What nonsense.

Everyone knows homeopathy works by aligning the aura of water to match the quantum phase vibration of the homeopathic additive.

:P

[Kutjara]

2. It seems that homeopathy scam artists now have to...

...leaven their flim-flam with heaping tablespoons of quantum-this, relativistic-that, and neuro-the-other to cover up the glaring inadequacies of their chosen field of "study".

It's not just homeopathy, however. Many New Age confidence tricksters seem to have realized that a bit of particle physics technobabble and some $10 words borrowed from a neuroscience textbook will make their chakras, ley lines and spirit voices look much more plausible to the poorly-educated, credulous rubes that are the most avid consumers of this new and improved brand of snake oil.

It's ironic that, in an era where more and more people proclaim a distrust of science and a belief in supernatural forces, the quacks, faux-gurus, self-improvement charlatans and pseudo-mystics are increasingly turning to "science" to prop up their fairy stories. I wish they'd make up their minds: either science is bunk and the universe is powered by pixies, or science is the best tool available for explaining reality.

What's not acceptable is to borrow the window dressing from science to prop up grossly unscientific beliefs. I think we should call such waffle "Scienciness."

[EvolveOrConvolve]

3. Great post

It's interesting to note that these homeopathic hucksters require overwhelming proof when real science or "allopathic" remedies are involved, but rarely apply the same, strict standards to their own nonsense.

Oh, and I call it "scientism".

[Quantess]

4. Self delete. Wrong place.