Sick of this NOT being a good homeopathy list anymore

[Irene de Villiers]

There is plenty of that here.
All you have to do is write about it.
Having other posts as well, adds richness of understanding, and does not detract from the ability to choose what topic to write about:-)
.....Irene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Irene de Villiers]

They used the subject line for the topic and exercised the delete button on aything not of interest - same as is possible now.

Irene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[John Harvey]

Vera, I too think that the Hahnemannian perspective, rare though it be on this list, is invaluable to the list's readers. Fran's post here does open up the picture somewhat, doesn't it, in a sobering way.

On the other hand, Fran, your notion of goals for the list is one that could really strengthen it, and I particularly like the idea of putting together a database. I tend to think of this as putting together a library, a set of strong resources that we can all freely use. But by this I mean something more than links to the text of good books. What I have in mind is chiefly a curated collection of high-quality relevant research, categorised into useful topic areas.
A broad categorisation could be something along these lines:

(A) Evidence of homoeopathic effects (i.e. of the results of the homoeopathic relationship; cognitively clearest without ultradilution, but including evidence for effectiveness of homoeopathic application of high potencies)

(B) Potency phenomena: detection, differentiation, measurement

(C) Evidence for biological activity of high potencies

(D) Politics: suppression, censorship, medical corruption, structural conflicts of interest.
Within each category, further divisions of topic are readily sensible.
Within, for instance, (A), evidence of homoeopathic effects:

(i) Pathogenetic trials (provings) -- methodological reliability; verification; analysis of variation
by potency;

(ii) The homoeopathic prescription -- methodological reliability; variability in resultant prescription
according to method; variety in followup and methods of second-prescription analysis; results;

(iii) Second prescription / second dose -- variety in followup investigation; variety in methods
of analysis and interpretation; analytical reliability; further results;

(iv) Long-term followup -- the entire picture, in accordance with homoeopathy's fundamental
values;

(v) Comparisons with the results, and the reliability of reported results, of alternative medical
methods, e.g. (a) other holistic practices; (b) biomedicine; (b) complex (potentised) and other
polypharmacy.
Under such topic headings could fall various kinds of clinical studies: individual cases, classes of cases, randomised controlled trials, case series, outcome studies, and so on.
Useful subtopics under topics (B) and (C) are probably obvious.
Under topic (D), politics, could fall:

(i) Societal context of healer's role -- historical and modern variability in approaches to
(a) cultural, (b) social, (c) economic, (d) political relationship of healer (and related entities)
to patient;

(ii) Rhetoric, discourses, overt agenda -- the ways in which public discourse represents and
misrepresents (a) medicines, (b) healers, (c) medicine creators, (d) investigators,
(e) regulators, (f) patients, and (g) carers/parents of patients;

(iii) Political realities -- legal relationships; political alliances; economic imperatives;
financial incentives; regulatory capture; corruption and fraud

(iv) Applicable principles -- liberties (negative human rights); positive human rights; scientific
tentativeness; democratic accountability; openness of discussion; rational decision-
making.
Working out how this could be classified and indexed is the easy part. Physically, the system would require: (a) a method for entry of a document or a URL; (b) a way to backtrack to that material's source, to obtain copyright permissions etc.; (c) easy interfaces for readers, contributors, and curators; and (d) security. If anybody can put forward suggestions as to how to attain some of that, Minutus -- or whoever else sets it up -- will be a step closer to making available a repository of medical and political resources that could be truly useful.

Cheers!

John