Minutus

Christine,
You obviously feel very strongly that this poor man cannot have used homeopathy and have spent much time researching to prove your point! Why? You can't possibly be trying to prove that no-one receiving homeopathic treatment ever dies. If so, I have news for you........
I don't keep 4 year old newspapers but imagine it was in the Times or Independent. Is everything they wrote on this protracted story on the net? I can't be sure the newspaper report was accurate (how could I be?) but that I read it is no more a matter of opinion than that I had omelette for lunch.
The reason I remember the story so well is that at the time I was editing a journal and the case came up in an article where the author was saying that homeopaths should have stepped forward in this instance where doctors were saying there was nothing they could do and, in the light of this late information (on an inside page if I recall), we removed that suggestion!
Anyway, I'm out of this discussion. The word batty is coming to mind and there has been enough unwarranted frothing at the mouth already.
Theresa

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Christine,
You obviously feel very strongly that this poor man cannot have used homeopathy and have spent much time researching to prove your point! Why? You can't possibly be trying to prove that no-one receiving homeopathic treatment ever dies. If so, I have news for you........
I don't keep 4 year old newspapers but imagine it was in the Times or Independent. Is everything they wrote on this protracted story on the net? I can't be sure the newspaper report was accurate (how could I be, any more than you can be sure it wasn't?) but that I read it is no more a matter of opinion than that I had omelette for lunch.
The reason I remember it so well is that at the time I was editing a journal and the case came up in an article where the author was saying that homeopaths should have stepped forward to be counted in this instance where doctors were saying there was nothing they could do. In the light of this information (on an inside page if I recall), we removed that suggestion! And, no I did not hold the presses while I launched a personal investigation into the truth of the report. I had and still have no particular reason to believe it was untrue.

Anyway, I'm out of this now. The whole discussion is becoming distinctly 'batty' imo.
Theresa

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Theresa, the point I'm making are 'unsubstantiated claims' and 'misinformation' - nothing else. Robyn claimed that David Mcrae died because he was the only person not to be vaccinated as he relied on homeopathy. The FACTS as I read them: "he died because it's reported he refused vaccination DURING treatment." We don't know why. We don't even know what sort of treatment he was receiving - was it homeopathic? conventional? or some other form? Could have been accupuncture for all I know.

Going by 'what we've heard', 'what we assume', 'what we believe' are not facts and can lead to misinformation.

Yes, misinformation is a pet hate of mine and so it should be to everybody.

Christine

"The UK doesn't need puppy farming
it already has too many dogs needing good homes!"

Dogs in days before vets & petfood became the norm
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