I was having a pint not so long ago and got chatting with a builder who reckoned all ills could be cured with 'minerals'.
It sounded like a mixture of bollocks and pyramid selling to me.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 18:41, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

It could help in certain situations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Fi08u8bh8
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 18:44, Reply)

Grr, I had one of my former patients lose a limb through diabetes related conditions, they refused to accept our advice, and instead decided to rely on homeopathy. What?

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 18:51, Reply)

my mum isn't a crystal hugger but she was into things like arnica.
Which apparently only works if you don't touch it. So presumably it's rendered inert by skin but not whatever gubbins our insides are made out of.

She was a bloody practice nurse and all.

I've never understood the 'more choice' argument in medicine. I don't know shit about my insides. That's the doctors job.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 18:56, Reply)

I heard a piece on R4 a few days ago about homeopathy
Robert Winston destroyed the woo woo pedlar with facts and statistics from the homeopathists own studies, however the woo woo pedlar still wouldn't accept it. Twat even claimed he'd had a cold and homeopathy had made him feel better and he 'hadn't taken any antibiotics'. 24 carat twat.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:06, Reply)

I've destroyed cold with booze and pills and generally making my body as inhospitable as possible.
Do they ask me to appear on R4? Do they fuck.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:09, Reply)

A good hot curry can usually kick the arse of a cold, dunno if this is alternative though?

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:16, Reply)

you're not wrong.
Good for preventing prostate cancer as well.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:26, Reply)

That 'twat' was an MP and serves on health/science committees
Don't you just love democracy?
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:15, Reply)

I think I've read about him before.
He tried to defend homeopathy by saying that 'there's no point in attacking something that has a proven track record'.

But nobody was doing that as they were attacking homeopathy.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:23, Reply)

Homeopathy is one of the biggest bullshit cons going medically.
It's also responsible for a lot of deaths and fails, due to belief in this shit. It really does fucking piss me off.
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:27, Reply)

it's unethical bullshit.
However we are only losing people who lack the gumption to work out it's bollocks.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:29, Reply)

Even the thick deserve decent med treatment.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:33, Reply)

Unfortunately.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Sat 13 Dec 2014, 19:34, Reply)