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Bizarre Experiment to Prove Homeopathy Worthless

I found this on Twitter. A bunch of skeptics try to commit a mass suicide using homeopathy. In Great Britain, homeopathy is covered under health care benefits. I posted this on the Evidence-Based site as well.

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Permalink Reply by Vlad on January 18, 2010 at 8:07am
Hi Laura,,
I thought you'd enjoy this.
The blog entry is nothing - it's the comments that are a gem........:-D
Permalink Reply by Christopher A. Moyer on January 18, 2010 at 2:16pm
Hi Laura.

Why do you say it is bizarre? It seems like a clever demonstration to me.
Permalink Reply by Laura Allen on January 18, 2010 at 3:46pm
Reminded me of the Jim Jones mass suicide. And--who's to say that any substance, should you take enough of it, or something that you might have an allergy to, couldn't cause death? People have been known to die from an overload of plain old water.

Christopher A. Moyer said:
Hi Laura.

Why do you say it is bizarre? It seems like a clever demonstration to me.
Permalink Reply by Christopher A. Moyer on January 18, 2010 at 5:11pm
But I think the point of their demonstration was that they could consume large quantities of the homeopathic solutions and be confident that they would have no effect at all, which is what happened.
Permalink Reply by Vlad on February 1, 2010 at 6:05pm
Hey Laura,
This might interest you since it's the latest on the homeopathic issue from the other side of the pond.
Ernst sounds like an interesting fella.
Permalink Reply by Julie Onofrio on February 1, 2010 at 8:13pm
That is bizarre... There was also a story of Billy Joels daughter overdosing on traumeel - a homeopathic remedy for pain a month or so ago. I always meant to look it up because overdosing would be impossible yet it was on the tv news even. Must have been a slow newsweek or something.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/12/07/2009-12-07_nearly_impo...

I swear by homeopathics - sinus problems, colds, headaches, uti's

Julie
Permalink Reply by Stephen Jeffrey on February 15, 2010 at 4:22pm
Against = http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jul/14/medicineandhealth.lif...

For = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4040/Homeopathy-works.html

Pheww I was all skepticle untill it was proved by the research :)

steve
Permalink Reply by Robin Byler Thomas on February 15, 2010 at 9:04pm
LOL; yup, ya gotta keep it all in perspective.

Stephen Jeffrey said:
Permalink Reply by Christopher A. Moyer on February 16, 2010 at 1:11pm
If it's in a newspaper, it must be true. :)
Permalink Reply by Christopher A. Moyer on February 23, 2010 at 5:43pm
Permalink Reply by Vlad on February 28, 2010 at 12:35am
Here's another take on the developments in the U.K that mentions Ernst again.

Also, if anyone listened to Paul Ingraham's talk you'll remember he mentioned Simon Singh - you can get info on the guy off this blog.

I think it's interesting that the ad hominems are flying. Makes me think again of Carl's Baloney Detection list - (see the quick reference here)
Permalink Reply by Vlad on April 9, 2010 at 5:18pm
Laura,
You probably have already seen this and it might be old news to you, but I found the account of the science bloggers visit to NCCAM interesting and since part of it addresses homeopathy, I thought I'd throw it on your thread to share with others. Of note is that the NCCAM has not funded any studies in homeopathy in 2 years (although they still accept grant apps for it, you have to wonder if they're just thrown in the trash).

I thought the blog entry was very interesting in other ways as well.

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