dave clarkson
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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 04, 2010, 23:45
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"There's a lot wrong with the medical industry- vested interests and all that- and it's in the interests of this powerful and well-funded lobby to discredit homeopathy wholesale. It gets a negative press generally anyway, and I guess that's why I feel the need to put the other side of the story when something like this comes up.2
What other side of the story?
It's in the interest of pharma suppliers to embrace homeopathic medicines, not discredit them. Mistrust of conventional medicines and an increase in consumer choice has had a shift in favour towards homeopathic stuff. There's nothing 'alternative' about complementary medicines - they are very 'pop' in the pharma world and big business. Boots would be stupid not to get involved!
8)
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 05, 2010, 13:07
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Of the top of my head I'm thinking of natural herbal remedies that can't be copyrighted and branded- although there have been moves to do just that, or to ban their use entirely. Of course if there's a potential profit in the 'alternative' sector than the big business side will move in and co-opt it - same in medicine as in music. It's where homeopathy suggests that you don't actually need profitable branded drugs- especially things like anti-depressants- and that symptoms can be countered by changes in lifestyle and in taking natural remedies, that it would be seen as dangerous and subversive.
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IanB
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Edited Feb 09, 2010, 21:07
Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 09, 2010, 19:50
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landells wrote: Protesting against homeopathy?!? It strikes me as a bit too much like The Wild One: What you rebelling against? Whaddya got? Well this week we've got homeopathy...
This week I am protesting outside Waterstones for selling self-help books next to the Philosophy section and the Tolkeins too close to the Bible. I am sure without the timely and heroic intervention of myself and my comrades in the Literalist Literature Front people would be unable to make a rational judgement based on their own experience of the world.
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IanB
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Edited Feb 09, 2010, 19:57
Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 09, 2010, 19:55
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Squid Tempest wrote: I'm going to stick my head above the parapet here.
I never trusted homeopathic medecine due to the scientific arguments already mentioned here. However, I have a very good (and intelligent) friend who suffers from a very serious condition (I won't go into details here as it is another's health I'm talking about). For some years now homeopathic remedies have provided her with the only relief she has been able to get - conventional medecine did nothing for her. Apparently for her it really works, and in ways that it is hard to fit in with the placebo effect. real, physical differences.
I was as cynical as the rest of you until this. Now I'm really not so sure. Could it possibly be that there is something going on here that science has yet to suss out?
I am with you on this. I know far too many people who have had significant success with homeopathy and especially with acupuncture to dimiss the possiblity that there is something "in" these treatments. If they are all deluded then they are healthy, happy and deluded having been let down by their GPs and force fed pain killers which being a whole other set of problems with them. Not least the number of musicians I know whose RSI has been relieved completely by acupuncture alone when all other forms of therapy and pain relief have failed.
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IanB
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Edited Feb 09, 2010, 21:05
Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 09, 2010, 21:04
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Merrick wrote: handofdave wrote: I don't see a problem with marketing the stuff as long as there is full disclosure that clinical trials disprove the efficacy of the stuff.
it should surely only sell stuff that works, and not sell stuff that claims to work when the evidence shows it doesn't.
That's a career in Socialist politics screwed then.
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Moon Cat
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Edited Feb 09, 2010, 23:57
Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 09, 2010, 23:54
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Ha! 8^)
And these guys are fucked too.
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Loopy Lumbago
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Re: Homeopathic overdose protest in Boots
Feb 10, 2010, 05:43
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Quote: "That's a career in Socialist politics screwed then."
Absolutely! Better stick with something that really works; like the free market theory. May we all be led to prosperity by The Invisible Hand of Adam Smith! ;o)
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