I should have been this simple:
Elsewhere:
- How Does Homeopathy Work? (Respectful Insolence)
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of Homeopathy (Respectful Insolence)
- Index to posts on homeopathy & links to resources (Science Based Medicine)
Previously Here:
- Homeopathy: There's Nothing In It (10^23 campaign)
- Part I--Critique of Homeopathy: An Overview of Why Homeopathy Cannot Be Effective, And Is More Like A Religion
- Part II--Critique of Homeopathy: The Foundations and Background; Why It Is Hard to Think About Homeopathy; and Why It Is Health Fraud
- Part III--Critique of homeopathy: An Examination of Its Utility in Some Life-Threatening Medical Conditions Where The Tough Get Going: Homeopathy and Life-Threatening Conditions
- Part IV--Critique of Homeopathy Is Homeopathy Pure, or Is Homeopathy Big Business?
- Index to the series. Read the, uhm, rationally-challenged posts
- Dyslexia and Homeopathy Don't waste your money and time.
- Another Confused quack homeopath. Repeat after me, there is no reputable evidence that homeopathy works.
- Dolivaxil cannot cure anything.
- Can Homeopathy (Oscillococcinum, Dolivaxil, Influenzinum) Help With The Flu? No, although homeopaths continue to misrepresent the research and insist that homeopathy is effective.
- Clark Bertram (a pseudonymous physician) speaks against homeopathy
- Homeopathy is indeed Big Business
- Homeopathy: It Just Doesn't Work (2005)
Most recent post
Four-part series on homeopathy from 2003
Other posts prior to 2010
Update April 2010 Homeopathy a systematic review finds no evidence that homeopathy has effects beyond placebo. Dr. Steven Barnett's article, Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake reviews the status of homeopathy in the United States. Homeopathy lists the critiques published of homeopathy in April, 2010. homeopathyThere's Nothing In It, the 10:23 campaign.
Perhaps you need a musical category, Liz? I can offer my own homeopathic singalong.
Posted by: Dr Aust | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 02:07 PM
I've a recent post up about the UK Science and Technology Committee recommendations:
http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/2010/02/23/homeopathy-check-up-not-in-the-health-system-disclaimers-in-pharmacies/
and an earlier article discussing some aspects of homeopathy and why I believe it shouldn't be in pharmacies:
http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/2010/01/25/homeopathic-remedies-in-nz-pharmacies/
I was intending to write a series explaining the origins and nonsense associated with homeopathy, but I have to admit with all that's out there, I wonder if it's worth the effort!
Posted by: Grant | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 04:17 PM
This is brilliant. Alice in Galaxyland has put up a list of excuses for homeopathy. Some of my favorites:
ARGUMENT FROM NECESSARY OPPOSITES (1)
1) There are problems associated with conventional medicine.
2) Therefore, homeopathy works.
ARGUMENT FROM NECESSARY OPPOSITES (2)
1) Homeopathy doesn't cause side-effects like conventional medicine.
2) Therefore, homeopathy works.
ARGUMENT FROM INCOMPREHENSIBILITY
1) Quantum physics is weird.
2) I don't understand it, and surely you don't either.
3) Therefore, homeopathy works.
Posted by: Liz Ditz | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 02:20 PM
From Chris McDonald's Business Ethics Blog
Posted by: Liz Ditz | Monday, March 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM