ON NOW THURS 30 NOV Does Homeopathy work? LIVE webcast discussion in England

[Simon King LCPH MARH]

These things are INVARIABLY winds ups _ I never watch them , they're
guaranteed to make your blood boil
kind regards

Simon King
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http://www.Homeopathy-Help.net
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[Shannon Nelson]

Anyone know who set the meeting up?
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[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Colleagues

I took time to travel to London and attend this meeting at the Darwin Room
of the Natural History Museum.

I think perhaps the case for Homoeopathy could have been better presented. I
find the story of how Hn discovered Hom is always a good start.

Dr Fisher's line was that studies on effectiveness of Homoeopathy were often
badly conducted or incorrect conclusions were reached/reported.

After the break, I managed to have the opportunity to address the meeting
and built on the fact that the use of potentised substances did not show the
effectiveness of homoeopathy, but the substance had to be chosen on the
basis of symptom similarity and that in fact a substance is ONLY proven to
be homoeopathic after being taken by the patient and for symptoms to improve
subsequently. (At this Dr Goldacre raised his eyebrows!)

I added that therefore the double blind trials were unlikely to be
conclusive as quite often the remedy selection was not homoeopathic. The
only case where the effectiveness of Homoeopathic remedies can be shown is
during epidemics and sited as an example the events of the cholera epidemic
in London during the 19th century where Hom Hospitals were particularly
effective against the failure of the allopathic hospitals.

At this Dr Goldacre admitted that yes Hom was effective during epidemics! I
couldn't believe my ears!

One thing that came through that we needed a greater amount of funding to
show the effectiveness of Hom. One person attending (from Germany?) stated
that the whole amount of money spent on research on Hom was less that the
money spent on just one of the -lolo drugs for hypertension etc.

At the end I managed to speak to Dr Goldacre and asked him why he refused my
offer that he should take part in a proving - he said it was because I had
come across as too aggressive promising him to be rather ill during the
proving. This from the person who says that high dilutions have no effect.
(Minutus old hands will remember the story).

Rgds
Soroush

[Rochelle]

Well done Soroush. You did brilliantly!!

Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Simon King LCPH MARH]

Well Done!
kind regards

Simon King
http://www.Homeopathy-Help.net
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