Slamming Homeopathy

[Nancy Siciliana]

I'm educating the public all the damned time. I really think we Homeopaths need some education, and then we need to act.

It's not really an accident a publication as "trustworthy" as the public believe Consumer Reports to be has decided to take some over the counter patent remedy at its word and slam homeopathy with it, without so much as a how-do-you-do to any reference material on alternative medicine. We all know of the long and ongoing attempts to discredit alternative medicine in general (homeopathy in particular as its the most effective form) so we ought not think that this is some random case of poor journalism. It's part of an intense and multifaceted misinformation campaign calculated to keep the general public convinced that conventional medicine is the True Standard, the "real" medicine.
Everything else, especially homeopathy, is just fooling around.

Yeah, it's political. But politically motivated actions create political opportunities. For us. If you subscribe to the magazine, or you read it online, write a letter pointing out the lack of the journalist's ability to educate him/herself about the subject, and point out how publishing such misinformation makes the publication lack credibility. When you make your money on your ability to help consumers make choices, and you don't have that credibility anymore...you're finished as a publication.

It'd be really good if you could Cc the letter or email to the publication's advertisers, so that they'd be alerted to the possibility of similar poor journalism as it might apply to their own products.

And it might be really good if we had a kind of "anti-defamation" group in our community that is fully focused on responding to this kind of media misinformation whenever it happens, in print, in films, on radio, on the internet and elsewhere. It happens quite a lot.

This would be full time work for many people--but eventually we'd end up making mainstream media just as much our forum for educating the public as it is Big Medicine's forum for slandering Homeopathy now. That would be a huge accomplishment as we're silenced there now.

[Nancy Siciliana]

I'm educating the public all the damned time. I really think we Homeopaths need some education, and then we need to act.

It's not really an accident a publication as "trustworthy" as the public believe Consumer Reports to be has decided to take some over the counter patent remedy at its word and slam homeopathy with it, without so much as a how-do-you-do to any reference material on alternative medicine. We all know of the long and ongoing attempts to discredit alternative medicine in general (homeopathy in particular as its the most effective form) so we ought not think that this is some random case of poor journalism. It's part of an intense and multifaceted misinformation campaign calculated to keep the general public convinced that conventional medicine is the True Standard, the "real" medicine.
Everything else, especially homeopathy, is just fooling around.

Yeah, it's political. But politically motivated actions create political opportunities. For us. If you subscribe to the magazine, or you read it online, write a letter pointing out the lack of the journalist's ability to educate him/herself about the subject, and point out how publishing such misinformation makes the publication lack credibility. When you make your money on your ability to help consumers make choices, and you don't have that credibility anymore...you're finished as a publication.

It'd be really good if you could Cc the letter or email to the publication's advertisers, so that they'd be alerted to the possibility of similar poor journalism as it might apply to their own products.

And it might be really good if we had a kind of "anti-defamation" group in our community that is fully focused on responding to this kind of media misinformation whenever it happens, in print, in films, on radio, on the internet and elsewhere. It happens quite a lot.

This would be full time work for many people--but eventually we'd end up making mainstream media just as much our forum for educating the public as it is Big Medicine's forum for slandering Homeopathy now. That would be a huge accomplishment as we're silenced there now.

[Gisela dicarlo]

It's great to have ideas but they need to be executed. Why don't you lead the way -in manning a campaign of that sort - just email all the publishers that write negative or misinformation articles about what we are really doing.

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[Nancy Siciliana]

I'm educating the public all the damned time. I really think we Homeopaths need some education, and then we need to act.

It's not really an accident a publication as "trustworthy" as the public believe Consumer Reports to be has decided to take some over the counter patent remedy at its word and slam homeopathy with it, without so much as a how-do-you-do to any reference material on alternative medicine. We all know of the long and ongoing attempts to discredit alternative medicine in general (homeopathy in particular as its the most effective form) so we ought not think that this is some random case of poor journalism. It's part of an intense and multifaceted misinformation campaign calculated to keep the general public convinced that conventional medicine is the True Standard, the "real" medicine.
Everything else, especially homeopathy, is just fooling around.

Yeah, it's political. But politically motivated actions create political opportunities. For us. If you subscribe to the magazine, or you read it online, write a letter pointing out the lack of the journalist's ability to educate him/herself about the subject, and point out how publishing such misinformation makes the publication lack credibility. When you make your money on your ability to help consumers make choices, and you don't have that credibility anymore...you're finished as a publication.

It'd be really good if you could Cc the letter or email to the publication's advertisers, so that they'd be alerted to the possibility of similar poor journalism as it might apply to their own products.

And it might be really good if we had a kind of "anti-defamation" group in our community that is fully focused on responding to this kind of media misinformation whenever it happens, in print, in films, on radio, on the internet and elsewhere. It happens quite a lot.

This would be full time work for many people--but eventually we'd end up making mainstream media just as much our forum for educating the public as it is Big Medicine's forum for slandering Homeopathy now. That would be a huge accomplishment as we're silenced there now.

[Christine Wyndham-Thomas]

There is : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ARH-Media/ At least it's a start in the right direction!
Christine

[Luise Kunkle]

Hi Sue,
Interesting and a very pleasant surprise to me.

They used to fight hammer and tongs, at least in Germany.

So maybe there is hope for homeopathy also:)

In which connection, IMO:

It is senseless to argue to the outside - i.e. Consumers Report, the
daily press etc. - the way we would do "intra-homeopathy". They do not
have the background to understand what we are talking about.

In a reply to Con. Rep. ist would IMO suffce to state empathiccally

1)
that the remedy they are basing their slamming about "is not
homeopathic".

2)
That the study they refer to has been shown to be faulty - and give
references/links to back that up.

Regards

Luise
Sounds

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So definitely know what's true:
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[Leilanae]

Hi Again,

I agree, we do need a legal definition!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Now that I've calmed down and can see more than one point of view, LOL!!!)

Leilanae

[Tina Belgaumkar]

Hi every one,
As we all know lack of knowledge is is the key problem, so my request is teach the public & the Medical teem, the benifit of Homeopathy, why British kingdom,s first choice is Homeopathy.
Dr.Tina
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Dr.Chinnamma Tina Belgaumkar
Belna Homoeopathy & Wellness Centre

70 Cass Ave. unit # 124, Scarborough,

Ontario, Canada. M1T 3P9

416-293-6693, 416 697-9355
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[Grace Dasilva-Hill]

People might be interested to know that, alongside the newly created ARH media-group,
in the UK, another group of homeopaths are discussing the possibility of publishing a well
reasoned and defended advertisement in the daily british newspapers, to counteract the
relentless defamation that we have been witnessing. Of course, an advert of this nature
will probably cost around £10,000 to £15,000 ($20,000 to $30,000 US), so if any of you
wants to help put the message out there to the Universe, we trust that someone will come
along with the necessary help. BW,
Grace
www.healingwithgrace.co.uk
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Tina Belgaumkar wrote:
public & the Medical teem, the benifit of Homeopathy, why British kingdom,s first choice
is Homeopathy.
Slamming Homeopathy
direction!
community that is fully focused on responding to this kind of media misinformation
whenever it happens, in print, in films, on radio, on the internet and elsewhere. It
happens quite a lot. This would be full time work for many people--but eventually we'd
end up making mainstream media just as much our forum for educating the public as it is
Big Medicine's forum for slandering Homeopathy now. That would be a huge
accomplishment as we're silenced there now.

[Jayney Goddard]

I would suggest that the money might be better spent undertaking a properly orchestrated PR campaign. The problem in taking a one page ad – which effectively is ‘above the line’ advertising, is that in order for it to work you need to keep running it. And at 10 – 15 K a pop it is not within our reach.
This money – spent on strategic PR would go a lot further. We have some excellent people in homeopathy who are already structuring PR approaches as you know.
By the way – all is not doom and gloom. I was speaking at a presentation for journalists yesterday and one of the excellent – very high profile journalists – explained that she is seeking information about CAM in order to counter Ernst and Singh’s attacks.
I will keep you posted if you are interested in knowing more.
Jayney