Argh
Homoeopathic retard on BBC news right now:( Shes an actual medical doctor who believes it works, and not just as a placebo. This makes me sad.
( Peej, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:12, 25 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

The withdrawl of NHS support for sugar pills is a start
I think patients should have a choice, of sugar pills or mainstream medicine. To see which system works, we could scientiffically make a big pile of corpses out of the people who chose magic beans instead of proper treatment.

Having both is not an option, it would cloud the statistics.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:34, Reply)

If people can believe in God then it's not much of a leap to believe in homeopathic remedies.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:41, Reply)

A valid point
but do you want your medicine to be based on belief or scientific research?

When I take a tablet, I want it to work, even if I'm feeling a bit grumpy and not inclined to believe in anything Today.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:44, Reply)

I agree completely but.......
My youngest sister takes a Bach flower remedy now and again for nerves, when she took her driving test and when she gets stressed at work. She finds it helpful and I'm not going to tell her that it's a load of old tosh because of that fact.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:55, Reply)

Is the Bach Flower remedy homeopathic?
Or a herbal remedy. In which case there are plenty of chemicals inside.

The two systems are completely different.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:03, Reply)

According to Wiki it's homeopathic.
Very small amounts of certain flowers in a Brandy solution.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:12, Reply)

Brandy is not homeopathic
We are talking Buckfast here, aren't we?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:19, Reply)

Haha! no she's only 20 so she's still at the alcopops stage.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:22, Reply)

So her solution to driving test nerves
was alcohol?
( le brian, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:29, Reply)

I like this comment.

(TheColonel, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 10:16, Reply)

it strikes me that something like nerves is going to much more easy for the palcebo affect to overcome
rather than some kind of disease.

also, brandy solution before her driving test? surely not wise.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:29, Reply)

Have you seen the size of the bottles?
A two month old baby couldn't get drunk, and you only have to put a couple of drops on your tongue.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:50, Reply)

I reckon a two month old baby could get drunk on a very small amount of brandy

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:53, Reply)

I fancy getting drunk on an indeterminate amount of brandy right now
Or possibly just falling asleep on my desk.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 10:07, Reply)

Sounds like a wager to me.

(TheColonel, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Yes but I find it sad when perfectly reasonable intelligent people
believe in an invisible and all powerful figment of their imagination.
( Peej, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:53, Reply)

Aren't we a figment of your imagination?
Yet you believe in us.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:08, Reply)

I am homeophobic.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 8:58, Reply)

that's as maybe
but you're still a gargantuan poofter
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:29, Reply)

He likes to rub willys on his bumhole

(Bazongaloid, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:48, Reply)

Interestingly (or worryingly)
The placebo effect is getting stronger. Google Placebo effect more effective and weep for gullible humanity.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:48, Reply)

The mind is a strange and powerful thing.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 9:54, Reply)

I thought the Placebo effect
referred to the feeling you get when you realise the hot singer's actually a boy.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 10:06, Reply)

"I like this"

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 10:08, Reply)

I take...
...homicidal medicine.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Tue 23 Feb 2010, 11:00, Reply)