BMJ publishes debate and a poll on homeopathy!

Dana Ullman, MPH · Post by **Dana Ullman, MPH** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:37 pm

Friends,

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) just published a debate on homeopathy with Dr. Peter Fisher vs. Dr. Edzard Ernst ("Darth Ernst").

I personally believe that Fisher won the debate...and evidence of this is also seen in the poll provided on the RIGHT side of the screen. At present, I'm VERY pleased to report that support for homeopathy is 58%!!!!

http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3735

The BMJ is also publishing COMMENTS called "Rapid Responses" here:
http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h373 ... -responses

At the top of the page is a radio debate that is different than the written responses, and I'm pleased to report that Ernst is sounding old and lethargic...and he is using old old arguments against homeopathy before newer research has clearly addressed his critiques. Ernst is clearly a dinosaur.
--Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH

healthinfo6 · Post by **healthinfo6** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:57 pm

Hardly, he knows how to make great use of social media to disparage homeopathy by getting his message out to over 11,000 followers daily.
https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst
Susan

Kristy Lampe · Post by **Kristy Lampe** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:14 pm

Are those 11,000 followers the same group of dinosaurs who stood around and said, “Eh, that bright comet won’t hit Earth....nothing will change.” ?
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Roger B · Post by **Roger B** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 8:29 pm

The "bright comet" coming to waste those dinosaurs is called LENR, cold fusion.

Roger Bird
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healthinfo6 · Post by **healthinfo6** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:01 pm

Most of those who post on Twitter aren't dinosaurs since they've made the effort to become more relevant and use social media to get their thoughts across to greater numbers vs solely using blogs, groups and forums.
Ernst's followers can be seen here, obviously many are slanted to medical, quackbusters, skeptics, etc.
https://twitter.com/EdzardErnst/followers
Dana Ullman's 4.5K followers can be seen here
https://twitter.com/HomeopathicDana/followers
To see latest posts on using keyword homeopathy, https://twitter.com/search?q=homeopathy&src=typd
Here you can see George Vithoulkas recently posted
https://twitter.com/Gvithoulkas
Susan