Read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. Best book written about alternative medicines.
http://www.badscience.net/category/complementary-medicine/homeopathy/
Or check out some of his articles above.
making fun of homeopathic medicine, not much to discuss.
i guess none of that was believable but, there are natural cures that work b/c certain natural chemicals happen to be in a root or plant. the same chemicals that are extracted for headaches and or stomach aches pills and whatnot.
for instance some monkeys have figured out to eat charcoal to take care of upset stomach caused by the plant that they eat which releases a toxin.
some of us humans in 3rd world country have figured out that a certain type of clay actually taste sweet and is used as a filler and nutritional value due to the minerals inherent in it. animals also eat the clay as part of their dietary intake..
there is a line to how far homeopathic remedies can take u and also where it ends.
Nah seriously...Of all the people on the boards you would enjoy his book the most. It basically slates all types of bad science from poorly planned trials to quack fake doctors and worst of all, Mattius Rath.
http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/#more-1088
Here's the article about him...Utterly shocking what the man will do to make profits for his company.
He wrote a letter to the international criminal courts trying to charge a man called Zackie Ahmat who works for Treatment Action Campaign who are trying to get vital AIDS medicine into South Africa while fighting a government who's stance is that AIDS isn't a problem.
Zackie Ahmat himself has AIDS and refuses to take any treatment for it unless the same treatment is widely available. His work has saved thousands of lives yet Mattius Rath stated the following about him
In view of the scale and gravity of Achmat’s crime and his direct personal criminal culpability for ‘the deaths of thousands of people’, to quote his own words, it is respectfully submitted that the International Criminal Court ought to impose on him the highest sentence provided by Article 77.1(b) of the Rome Statute, namely to permanent confinement in a small white steel and concrete cage, bright fluorescent light on all the time to keep an eye on him, his warders putting him out only to work every day in the prison garden to cultivate nutrient-rich vegetables, including when it’s raining. In order for him to repay his debt to society, with the ARVs he claims to take administered daily under close medical watch at the full prescribed dose, morning noon and night, without interruption, to prevent him faking that he’s being treatment compliant, pushed if necessary down his forced-open gullet with a finger, or, if he bites, kicks and screams too much, dripped into his arm after he’s been restrained on a gurney with cable ties around his ankles, wrists and neck, until he gives up the ghost on them, so as to eradicate this foulest, most loathsome, unscrupulous and malevolent blight on the human race, who has plagued and poisoned the people of South Africa, mostly black, mostly poor, for nearly a decade now, since the day he and his TAC first hit the scene.Signed at Cape Town, South Africa, on 1 January 2007
Have a read of the full article and see just how utterly despicable the man is.
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