The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) has a program, Marketplace, which advertises itself as "Canada's Consumer Watchdog". Tomorrow it will air a segment on homeopathy, which seems to be gaining ground in Canada.
The title for the show is "Cure or Con", which while alliterative is I think unfortunate. While I think homeopathy is a long-debunked eighteenth century dead end in medicine , I do believe that many practicing homeopaths are not at all "con men" -- "a swindler who tries to gain the confidence of the victim in order to defraud" -- but have a sincere but deluded belief efficacy of homeopathy and the soundness of homeopathic "therapies".
However, when homeopaths venture into treating life-threatening diseases such as type 1 diabetes, asthma, cancer or the like -- they still aren't con men but they are dangerous to the people they "treat".
Tomorrow's program reveals that some Canadian homeopaths are claiming to effectively treat cancer.
The comments need some help, too.
Like you, I also think that the people behind this natural health therapy called homeopathy are completely honest people who only want to provide alternatives to mainstream medicine and treatments. I disagree to the idea that homeopathy is just a scam because the therapy wasn't invented just recently. It has been around for so many decades now, and calling it a fraud is disrespectful of the cultures that created the healing technique.
Posted by: Cleo Pascal | Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:57 AM
Homeopathy is a relichen that throgh your weakness it gives you strenth, it i so sad if you are that low.
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