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http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=41

My Day with the Homeopaths - Part II
Published by Steven Novella under Science and Medicine
Comments: 23

Looks like needs a few comments from skilled homeopaths but then again, may
not want to bother

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm

To be Honest, I was disappointed with most of the performances - bar Prof
Rustum Roy. His evidence and presentation was superb and interestingly -
yet this evidence is dismissed out of hand.

I have a feeling that Steven Novella does not have the capability of
understanding the basics of homoeopathy or what Prof Roy was saying.

They also assume that as soon as you give a 'homoeopathic' remedy one should
see some kind of a result.

As I said to the debate last year at London Nat History Museum on
Homoeopathy (Debate between Dr Fisher and Dr Ben Goldacre) - a remedy is
only proved homoeopathic when the effects on the patient can be Verified. I
further added that every homoeopath present would testify that they have had
cases where they had done their best and even a series of remedies had had
no effect. But when the case is completely reworked and the correct remedy
is found, then something like magic has happened.

It is the same patient - things have probably got worst and how is it that
all of a sudden 'this' remedy works and the others did not?
If it was just the placebo effect - or that it was the time being spent on
the patient, then the first one should have done it.
Why did it not? Because it was NOT homoeopathic.

And that is why a lot of these 'trial' fail because they do not
individualise enough and the remedy is not homoeopathic.

Regards

Soroush