10:23 Mass Overdose
As part of the ‘Homeopathy: There’s nothing in it” campaign, members of Leeds Skeptics stage a group overdose outside Boots in Leeds. There are no properly conducted clinical trials showing that homeopathic ‘medicines’ have anything other than a placebo effect…yet Boots, a respected high street name, continues to sell them.
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Along with the Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, one paper has been published entitled “Homeopathy remedy Ruta 6 selectively induces cell death in brain cancer cells but proliferation in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes: A novel treatment for human brain cancer” in the International Journal of Oncology in October 2003 where Homeopathy treatment with Ruta and Calcarea Phosphorica was followed with excellent results.
3 Nobel Laureate scientists have done studies on high dilutions( similar to Homeopathic) and have proven their effects.
1. Hans Von Euler –
Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1929
2. Brian David Josephson –
Nobel Laureate Physics 1973
3. Luc Montagnier –
Nobel Laureate Physiology & Medicine 2009
Scientists, are wedded to the truth, not PSEUDOskeptic ideology, so if it can be demonstrated that homeopathy is placebo effect – great! But it hasn’t been.
Read “Structure of Water” by Rustum Roy, William Tiller and others. Roy is the founder of the material sciences department at Penn State, Tiller was head of Stanford’s. Read Georgos Agnagnostatos’ report on homeopathic clathrates. Agnagnostatos is a nuclear physicist. These are science heavy weights who are introducing supramolecular chemistry as the basis for homeopathy. It adds up.
What doesn’t add up are PSEUDOskeptics claims that homeopathy cures are due solely to the placebo effect.
Feb 13, 2010
A recent study in the International Journal of Oncology demonstrated that four ultra-diluted homeopathic medicines exerted preferential cytotoxic effects against two breast cancer cell lines.
Frenkel M et al. (2010): Cytotoxic effects of ultra-diluted remedies on breast cancer cells. International Journal of Oncology, 36: 395-403.
5 META ANALYSES showing positive results on Homeopathy.
1. Cucherat et al 2000 16 Hi-Qt studies POSITIVE.
2. Linde & Melchart 1998 32 Hi-Qt studies POSITIVE.
3. Linde et al 1997 89 studies POSITIVE.
4. Boissel et al 1996 15 Hi-Qt studies POSITIVE.
5. Kleijnen et al 1991 105 studies POSITIVE.
shame you weren’t. was a good day!
Great vid, Potsy. Wish I’d been there!
hi. thatnks for your comment, see my comments below.
rich
The person who demonstartes definitivelyt that homeopathy works will go down in history and open up a new branch of physics. But until that time, I don’t think we can justify spending public money on it, and I don’t tink Boots can justify selling it to the public. As a scientist, I’m wedded to the truth, not ideology, so if it can be demonstrated that homeopathy works – great! But it hasn’t been.
We don’t know how general anaesthetics work, yet we know they do. However, any one study on its own is not proof of an effect, whcih is why we have a p-value to demonstarte that the result may be down to chance alone. The lancet metaanalysis of a few years ago demonstrated that, when taken together, the well-designed trials do not show evidence that homeopathy works. Of course, een meta-analyses have a small chance of being worng, though much smaller than the roiginal chance.
Interesting study. Indeed, there is a comment archived in the responses by a doctor stating, effectively, that the study is no good because a mechanism for homeopathy is unknown. I think this is rubbish – one doesn’t need to know the mechanism of something to observe the effect.
Taylor, M.A. et al. Randomised Controlled Trial of Homoeopathy Versus Placebo in Perennial Allergic Rhinitis with Overview of Four Trial Series, British Medical Journal, 321, pp. 471-476 (2000).
Such a poor turn out for these PSEUDOskeptics!
Looking at the dwindling numbers of PSEUDOskeptists seems like their religion is dying a natural death!
Whooo 1:36, it’s Liz and meeee!
Thanks for making this video, I’m glad that we, as skeptics, are a vocal minority. See you in the pub!