Dear Joy,
I don't! The point I was making was that results obtained from a dolphin
remedy (or any such remedy resulting from dubious methodology) could be a
placebo effect. I am not trying to say that a placebo is necessarily better.
In fact, I am quite sure that for many modern homeopaths and those patients
that are that way inclined, remedies like "Hadrians Wall", "Berlin Wall",
"Dolphin", and so on, will act very well as placebos. As long as they are
not terribly unwell, these might just help them along fine, at least for a
while.
However, just don't tell me that is medicine. This is not the way homeopathy
was supposed to be.
Another thing that concerns me about some of the newer approaches to proving
remedies is that many schools are allowing their students to carry out
provings whilst on conventional medication. Meanwhile, others are carrying
out provings while under the influence of high-potency homeopathic
treatment, e.g. sequential treatment. All this is bound to seriously affect
the reliability of the results obtained.
Nor can I understand the apparent obsession with churning out such a
constant flow of new remedies, when we already have an enormous range of
older ones at our fingertips. It will not be long, if this trend continues,
before the valuable medicine-chest of scientific homeopathy is swamped by a
welter of dubious "young pretenders". This is what happens when a science
falls into unscientific hands. I have enormous respect for the majority of
my Fellows in this profession, and the Minutus list represents probably the
most intelligent and rational homeopathic discussion group I have seen.
However, I am greatly disturbed by many of the trends in homeopathy these
days.
George A. Kaplan
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