Comments on: Homeopaths and liberty http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2007/10/homeopaths-and-liberty/ The inside track since 2003 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:18:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Colquhoun http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2007/10/homeopaths-and-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-19857 David Colquhoun Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:43:52 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1559#comment-19857 Totally reasonable, and also totally counterproductive. The banned page, "The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killings", has now been reproduced in full on at least 62 other sites all over the world. And if you do a Google search for "The Society of Homeopaths", six of the first ten links on the first page now point to "The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killings". It would be funny if it were not so dangerous. Totally reasonable, and also totally counterproductive. The banned page, “The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killings”, has now been reproduced in full on at least 62 other sites all over the world. And if you do a Google search for “The Society of Homeopaths”, six of the first ten links on the first page now point to “The Gentle Art of Homeopathic Killings”.

It would be funny if it were not so dangerous.

]]> By: bengoldacre http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2007/10/homeopaths-and-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-19249 bengoldacre Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:53:50 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1559#comment-19249 it's extremely reasonable. the thing about homeopathy is, there are lots of situations where a harmless placebo would be a perfectly reasonable treatment option, but bullshit needs to be peddled ethically and responsibly. the society of homeopaths have been caught out endorsing HIV quackery, failing to act on lifethreatening malaria quackery, and they have behaved in an entirely infantile and sinister fashion over Dr Lewis of quackometer expressing perfectly reasonable concerns. it’s extremely reasonable.

the thing about homeopathy is, there are lots of situations where a harmless placebo would be a perfectly reasonable treatment option, but bullshit needs to be peddled ethically and responsibly. the society of homeopaths have been caught out endorsing HIV quackery, failing to act on lifethreatening malaria quackery, and they have behaved in an entirely infantile and sinister fashion over Dr Lewis of quackometer expressing perfectly reasonable concerns.

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