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Originally posted by DBT9: ↑

Homeopathy: a summary.
Impact of homeopathy on the public health and on the perception of science

''Homeopathy cannot be regarded as medicine because it cannot prove specific efficacy beyond context effects, such as the placebo effect. Nevertheless, it is established and even privileged in Germany by pharmaceutical law, and, unlike normal pharmaceutical products, it does not have to demonstrate efficacy for market access. This privileged treatment is mainly the result of intensive lobbying. This situation has contributed significantly to the “social reputation” of homeopathy, the “appearance of credibility”. In the meantime, a paralyzing status quo has emerged. On the one hand, public confidence in homeopathy is largely based on this statutory privileged status; on the other hand, it is precisely this public confidence that prevents political decisions to remove homeopathy from the public health system. It is regrettable that, so far, German health policy has not followed the development of other European countries where homeopathy either is no longer supported by public health systems or who consider removing it from public health reimbursement schemes. Are on their way there. After all, there is substantial evidence and statements by scientific boards that show homeopathy's claims are not based on evidence. This is where the efforts of critics come in, as the situation can only change by providing the public and politicians with reliable information and facts. We critics are also concerned that the popularity of homeopathy promotes a latent or open hostility to science. Criticism of homeopathic as well as pseudo‐medicine in general thus helps to differentiate between facts and opinion, and, above all, to make clear that science is not an ideology, but a proven and reliable method for the acquisition of knowledge.''

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You were talking about an "expert" debunking study for Kinesiology, which you haven't yet produced. I remind you that in Australia it is only the pharmaceutical backed medical treatment which is funded by medicare. All other medical treatments have to compete on an unlevel playing field. As to homeopathy, it is not the dilutions that medical opinion despises so much, since they regularly use high dilutions now themselves, but rather the offensive part of homeopathy is the method of diagnosis through the law of similars. That is the real issue. "Homeopathy" will be considered acceptable when it can be dispensed by ordinary doctors, without training in homeopathy, dispensed on the basis of individual symptoms instead of total symptom picture, as a kind of an add on to the current standard medical treatment. But that will not be homeopathy.

As I said anyway, we can dispense with all this. You just need to purchase a small bottle of Plutonium Nitricum 30C and start proving the remedy for yourself, and be sure to write down your symptoms.