Homeopathy: The Test
Homeopathy was pioneered over 200 years ago. Practitioners and patients are convinced it has the power to heal. Today, some of the most famous and influential people in the world, including pop stars, politicians, footballers and even Prince Charles, all use homeopathic remedies. Yet according to traditional science, they are wasting their money.
Skeptic James Randi is so convinced that homeopathy will not work, that he has offered $1m to anyone who can provide convincing evidence of its effects. For the first time in the programme's history, Horizon conducts its own scientific experiment, to try and win his money. If they succeed, they will not only be $1m richer - they will also force scientists to rethink some of their fundamental beliefs.
The basic principle of homeopathy is that like cures like: that an ailment can be cured by small quantities of substances which produce the same symptoms. For example, it is believed that onions, which produce streaming, itchy eyes, can be used to relieve the symptoms of hay fever.
However, many of the ingredients of homeopathic cures are poisonous if taken in large enough quantities. So homeopaths dilute the substances they are using in water or alcohol. This is where scientists become skeptical - because homeopathic solutions are diluted so many times they are unlikely to contain any of the original ingredients at all. Yet many of the people who take homeopathic medicines are convinced that they work. Has science missed something, or could there be a more conventional explanation?
If they really wanted the answers; if they really wanted the truth; they would go to the homoeopathic hospitals such as in india and they would see the real miracles being done everyday with homoeopathy and sick people! They would also go to the homoeopathy health africa wherr jeremy sherr is working miracles in the community. These are places where the real magic is being done. Not by skeptics with test tubes.
If homeopathy' basic premise worked, everyone with any allergy would be dead. They would have encountered water that 'remembered' their allergen, and it would kill them.
Vaccines are NOT the same. You can measure the viral remnants (attenuated, fragmented, or just antibodies) within a vaccine
Dont trust ANY documentaries from Horizon....they have a well known bias of carefully constructing misinformation that enhances industry propaganda.
Ever notice on the drug ads on TV , they tell how wonderful the new miracle drug is then at the end they add in the 20 + usually very negative side effects the same miracle drug might have... many times including things like stroke, heart failure, bleeding of the gums, Suicidal Tendencies, ect...ect...
No thanks....
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Homeopathy is hocus pocus, and as such has hoodwinked millions of people, ....not much differently than crop circles, the Loch Ness monster, religions, and myriad other schemes. I believe in science and nature. What's your belief system?
This is very confusing. Two noted scientists get positive results, then the experts come in and get no positive results. What's going on here? There seems to be a mysterious element involved.
Quantum Physics!!! explain thats smartasses!!!! once u figure that one out then maybe your half assed theories can make any sort of scence, some people just have no power over their lifes and love science to tell them what is true or false even though science and the "answer" it provides always been proven wrong or outdated so for all of you who make critical and negative comments about something that you dont even know that is true or not.
To belive that anything is 100% true is to become blind to the truth!!!
Learn, THINK!!!! and comment.
We enjoyed this documentary. I think that the observed positive and negative effects of homeopathy are complicated by multiple factors (not least of which is the human belief system), and while science and our current scientific method and understanding can not explain why it seems to work well for many individuals, including animals, we should all remain free to choose whatever method of healing works for us - without disparagement from others. Even if positive experiences with homeopathy can be explained by the placebo effect, this does not discount its validity. The placebo effect (or thought of another way, the power of the mind) should be recognised as a legitimate contributor to the outcome of a healing modality and not used to discount the positive effects of any type of medicine or therapy. Let's harness and celebrate that effect, and the power of our minds! In fact, let's learn to exploit it further. As long as we heal, right? Some allopathic medications barely work better than placebo (which generally accounts for around 30% of response to a treatment) in certain instances, as can be argued do homeopathic medicines. The difference is that allopathic medicines can have serious effects (including death or serious disability) outside those intended, but as far as I'm aware no one has ever died as a direct result of using homeopathy. We are all individuals (no clinical trial or scientific experiment will ever account for that), and I think it is important we are all free to choose whatever works for us, physically, emotionally and spiritually, regardless of the burden of scientific 'proof'.
I have been on Homeopathy since i was four years old because i developed a massive allergy to Allopathy.
Even when i came down with Jaundice a few years ago, i was only on Ayurveda and Homeopathy.
I am yet to see this documentary but am sure the global Pharmaceutical companies would go eons to ensure no other forms of medicine survive.
Please wake up folks. The drug companies are milking you dry by getting to buy their cheap medicines for minor ailments.The effects will be only felt when you come down with something serious an you cant afford it.
Like any other medication in the world, this could just have the placebo effect. The patient takes the medication, and by beliving it will work, they heal. I did this with acne. Just started meditating on beautiful skin and imagined water cleansing the dirt and bacteria from the inside and outside of my skin. Now my face is as smooth and clear as a baby's bottom.
I'm all for herbal medicine and homeopathic remidies, but I do believe that a huge part of healing is also in the mind.
What I know about Homeopathy is, it works ...... I stopped taking Traditional (allopathy) medicines 3 years ago ...... All should know that Homeopathy faces various conspiracy specially from Big Pharma ...... If the truth of Homeopathy is known to all, how will the Big pharma make Billions, even Trillions !!!
Don't put your faith on any allopathy doctors fully, ........... test Homeopathy yourself, and you'll get to know the actual truth .........
thanks.
I've bought a lot of random over the counter homeopathic medicine and I disagree with the premise from my experience that homeopathic medicine contains what makes you sick. Homeopathic medicine contains nutritional stuff that if you had been getting from your regular diet, your body would have used it to repair itself already. Like for example a homeopathic medicine for cholesterol might have garlic that helps lower cholesterol. Cold medicine will have echinacea etc. You can go to vitamin shoppe's or iherb or vitacost’s website and look at the ingredients of the homeopathic medicine they sell. It’s actually modern medicine that gives you a bit of what makes you sick as in immunization or flu shots. Actually both have their uses. One relys on herbs and food stuff and one relys on manufactured chemicals from a lab. But best to try to get what your body needs from your diet. Both dayquil by Vicks (modern medicine) and Cold relief by natrabio (homeopathic) give you relief from cold symptoms when it's in your system (when I've had a cold and taken this stuff) but the cold still runs its course.
Another interesting documentary however I think there is a basic problem with science. I'm not a skeptic of homeopathy, nor I'm I a fan. I think that if science proves there is no substance left in the water, maybe scientist ought to investigate water properties. In fact I'm sure there is still a x factor in particles which do have influence on their sorroundings. So it might not be the substance to provoke the cure but the change initially provoked by the substance in the water. If any other nano change is not traceable yet in the diluted water maybe some other kind of approach (electrical / magnetic) could prove a change (induction). Like some scientists (very few) stated, it's worthwhile to investigate why sometimes things happens extremely rarely instead of considering them simply an error. Afterall dna mutation are rare but should we consider this an error?
The last part of this documentary doesn't make much sense. They first claim there are double blind studies showing that homeopathy has a positive effect on patients (beyond placebo), then they say water doesn't have a memory and from both these things they conclude that homeopathy doesn't work. Which is nonsense. If double blind studies would show that homeopathy had an effect on patients than that would mean that homeopathy works. And if water doesn't have a memory than that would mean homeopathy would still work but we had no clue how.
But that's not the case.
To my knowledge the majority of double blind studies show that homeopathy has no effect on patients (beyond placebo). And THAT is the prove. Not this water memory thingy. So, even if the water memory test would have been successful Randy would still not have to pay the money because that would only show that water had a memory but not that homeopathy works (which it doesn't, as shown by double blind studies).
is homeopathy real ? well theres plenty of ways to find out. If it is claimed it can heal the sick, then it would be equally true that the carrier liquid in the case of homeopathy, water, would also be able to make things ill and die.
So quite simply test homeopathy out with poisons such as nicotine, arsenic, cyanide and others with known lethalities and results at given dosages. Start with a lethal concentration, dilute, then see if for instance, a plant withers or dies when fed such a liquid, if it does then i might start to believe there is something in this.
Geez, why does science have to make everything so utterly complicated, scientists, have to start working together and reaching agreement on there findings, its becoming completely ridiculous. This does this, no it does'nt, yes it does, no it does'nt, well it does in these people, but not these people, no, it does'nt in any people, yes it does, no it does'nt, 50 million dollars later...............INCONCLUSIVE.
Notice how the narrator leads the audience to place their hope on homeopathy and their sympathy on the French omeopath Doctor.
The narrator talks in a way so we think that homeopathy is going to be proven. So we FEEL our hope in homeopathy and then we see it getting CRUSHED. This is a neurolinguistic programming technique. It leads emotions. People, dont forget. BBC world IS a corporation. Its main purpose is to gain money. Not to inform people.
Experiment yourself to find the truth.
Homeopathy: The Test
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If you would think like a big pharma, then it will all make sense to you. Making homeopathic scientific evident means there will be a tendency of people making big shift to choose homeopathic medicine rather than a conventional med. Which in turn going to cause a big decrease in their profit. People are arguing that simply relying on homeopathic med will 'kill' u, then how about conventional med?? How many misdiagnose, overdose, and failure of a certain drugs to heal?? They are the same, none is 100% perfect yet. Media is controlled by big pharma and they will do anything to make a big fuss when homeopaths screw up, while trying to cover up their mistakes...
How come that mr. magician (who has 1 mill to loose if the experiment succeeds) is present everytime the experiments fail? I find this highly suspicious. Also, what makes him qualified to be part of the research at all?
I find that this aspect questions the test-studies. there is obviously a lot of interest and money invested in proving homeopathy wrong in the laboratory whilst the experiments are being done - real science should be inpartial.
Also, who on earth made the assumption that a few living cells can represent a whole living being?
all of the research has been made without even taking into consideration that homeopathy works on whole living beings. Claiming that the results made from a few cells is equivalent to what the results would be in a human is bizzar. it is as ridiculous as claiming a car to be "a scientific impossibility" when only testing if the clutch, isolated from the rest of the car, can or cannot drive from Manchester to Birmingham.
I don't understand why the water will remember substances the homeopaths add but doesn't remember all the other things it has come in contact with, like minerals from a stream, chemicals from the water treatment plant, the fish that's swam in it, you get what I'm saying. Water doesn't come from a vacuum, why doesn't it remember everything it's touched?
I have actually discovered that I can arrive at my destination before leaving my house, by driving slower! It's really very simple. You just need to reset your watch, and beLIEve that you are there. And of course you must shake your critical thinking skills the proper number of times, and dilute your reality accordingly. I hope this is usefull to you all.
Go to the kitchen, drink some water from the tap and you are already getting your fill of homeopathy.
Such an awfull hoax taking money from people and giving them a dose of placebo.
they said science didn't have the answer and they proved it. circular logic.
Aha the experiment failed