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Parliamentary Committee Hearing: Evidence Check: Homeopathy

Picked this up via @jackofkent (Twitter feed). Discussion model that one can expect more and more in anything health care connected. Evidence Check: Homeopathy.

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Comment by Keith Eric Grant on November 27, 2009 at 10:12pm: Dawn,

There's good reason for such a cross-check. We may be able to heal ourselves simply by visualization. The external trigger may simply have been a placebo rather than something apart from our own inherent beliefs and abilities -- i.e. being given some remedy we can give ourselves "permission" to heal ourselves. Looking at broader statistics is an effort to sort out the two effects.

I remember a story in a book called "The Centered Skier" about a woman who was asked to visualize herself as being a well-know female skier and react as she felt this other woman would ski. She had a great run down the mountain. On being congratulated for her run at the bottom, she replied, "Oh, I could never ski that well".

Comment by Christopher A. Moyer on November 27, 2009 at 7:43pm: More on homeopathy, specifically why it is unethical for Britain's health system to tax for it and administer it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/25/homeopathy-nhs-common...

Comment by Dawn Marie Jordan on November 27, 2009 at 7:20pm: Great synopsis of the current evidence check!

Living in the dialectic is the where we get most movement.

What continues to keep me curious is how much we rely on experts external to our bodies to tell us whether something works or not, whether something is good for us or not.