Hear-hear, Simon!
We keep lumping the various issues all together, until it becomes not a
matter of "is it homeopathy", "does it work", and "is it compatible
with a homeopathic practice", but just a great grey mushy lump that
basically amounts to, "Does it make me feel good to talk about?",
segueing into "Since it makes me feel yukky, the people who like it (or
do it or started it) must be yukky people too." At least that is how
many of the exchanges read to me.
So what to do, when the discussion *does* make some of us feel yukky?
Maybe first look inside to see why.
Maybe see if those individuals (and *any* of us when we feel a
blistering retort bubbling up
fun as they are...) can formulate
the problem to the list--"This whole thing makes me feel really
uncomfortable, and I think this is why..." That might be a way to get
the *real* objections on the table, and talk about the issues in a more
focussed and factual way?
In this particular case maybe those facts have already come out--some
worry about damage to homeopathy's image; and about degrading the
quality of our homeopathic teaching... And there is the simple matter
of needing to have boundaries on "what's homeopathy".
Well, I'll end this post in the middle... It's probably an annoying
post, tho I'm not meaning to that way...
Shannon
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