Homeopathy is serious risk for kids

Hundreds of babies harmed by Homeopathic remedies, say families

10 years of FDA data paint a grim picture of teething product complaints

By Sheila Kaplan, STAT on February 21, 2017

WASHINGTON — Case 7682299: Aug. 1, 2010. A mother gives her toddler three homeopathic pills to relieve her teething pain. Within minutes, the baby stops breathing.
“My daughter had a seizure, lost consciousness, and stopped breathing about 30 minutes after I gave her three Hyland’s Teething Tablets,” the mother later told the Food and Drug Administration. “She had to receive mouth-to-mouth CPR to resume breathing and was brought to the hospital.”

Homeopathy Challenge : Win Rs. 40 lakhs

There is no active ingredient in any homeopathic "medicines" prepared at the dilutions prescribed in their text books. The German skeptical organization GWUP has launched a challenge in May 2018, to individuals and groups " to identify homeopathic preparations in high potency and to give a detailed description on how this can be achieved reproducibly." The first participant to correctly identify selected homeopathic preparations under an agreed-upon protocol will receive €50,000 Euros (Roughly INR 40 lakhs).

Here is the link https://www.gwup.org/challenge-home

Homeopathy is not an effective treatment: Australian study of 225 researches

After reviewing 225 research papers selected from 1800 studies on homeopathy, a top Australian body for medical research has concluded that homeopathy is not effective for treating any medical condition.

Times of India

The Gaurdian

The Smithsonian

When will Indians be awaken? Nothing sort of a mass movement would be able to dislodge theses fraudsters who have entrenched themselves in the name of alternative system of medicine. Remember, homeopathy is not even a medicine and thus there is no question of being an alternative. Review of large body of data covering 1800 studies has confirmed that Homeopathy doesn't work, cannot work.

Homeopaths want to practice real medicine

Homeopaths can practice allopathy after studying: Maharashtra government

http://bit.ly/1mWB5VS


Why are so called homeopathic professionals demanding this? Where has there defence of  completely anti-scientific and bogus homepathy has withered away?

The reality appears to be ultimately sinking in.

Homeopathy's Recent Woes

From science based medicine>Homeopathy’s Recent Woes

Be careful what you wish for. In the last few decades purveyors of dubious medical treatments and products have been trying to go mainstream, and they have had some unfortunate success. They asked for serious scientific investigation into their claims – and they got it. They asked to be treated like real medicine (but not really, they only want the trappings of legitimacy, not the substance), and when they actually are treated with the standards similar to science-based medicine, they cry foul.

The response of the fake-medicine lobby is not to alter their claims to fit the evidence, or to carry out better studies, or to clean up their act when problems are brought to their attention – but to attack their critics.

Homeopathy is perhaps the best example of this behavior. Homeopathy’s biggest marketing advantage is that most people don’t know what it really is. They think it’s “natural” medicine or herbs. That is why, during homeopathy awareness week, I was happy enough to oblige. I want people to know exactly what homeopathy is – sugar pills. They are placebos on which the equivalent of a magical ritual has been cast. Active ingredients, which themselves are as fanciful as fairy dust, are diluted into non-existence.click to read further

Debate on Homeopathy

This BBC show is a typical example of how Homeopathic "doctors" behave when faced with hard facts-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyMjxiJozQ

You confront them with hard facts and they will start singing about "patient heals himself","new age science", "beneficiaries are the proof" and so on. However, what they refuse to admit (publicly) is that science is always testable and something which can't withstand the rigor of scientific evaluation can't be claimed as science. As described in previous posts, the concepts of Homeopathy run contrary to fundamentals of elementary physics and chemistry, and hence , can't be true. It will be great disservice to the humanity to argue otherwise. If homeopathy is proven true all other science would go wrong. This is the most unpalatable truth for homeopathic proponents. Homeopathy begins where all reason and rationality ends.

Fraudulent Research in Homeopathy

Homeopathic supporters claim that there are 130+ studies published in some 45+ peer reviewed journals lend credence to "scientific" viability of the homeopathy. Such false studies are widely quoted in print and electronic media during any discourse on homeopathy.Added to this are intensive marketing, advertisements and promotions by people involved in homeopathy industry. To an unsuspecting target the jargon of studies comes too heavy to understand and homeopathic "experts" continue to flaunt those "findings". In general the studies claiming to prove the efficacy of homeopathy have lacked scientific rigor required to validate results. Interestingly enough most of these studies were not actually done to test the hypotheses of homeopathy but for something else and homeopaths jump their guns wherever there is an inkling of any favourable report to support their strange claims and notions. Whatever may be the claim one thing is certain- numerous double blind control trials have consistently failed to show any positive evidence in favour of weird "scientific" theories of Homeopathy (please see previous posts). As argued earlier, the basic tenets of homeopathy run contrary to the fundamental concepts of modern science. But alas, there is an official Central Council for Research in Homeopathy in India for conducting "scientific" research on homeopathy.

People continue to be entrapped in this fraudulent system of "treatment".

Fake "discovery" at IIT Bombay

Times of India reported the "success" of scientists at IIT Bombay in proving scientific basis of effectiveness of homeopathy in nano-technology.However,this entire article is based on fake research and is indeed a sham in the name of science.Please consider this-

(1)Had it been science, it would have been published in a journal of Chemical Engineering and not some "peer-reviewed" homeopathy journal !!

(2)As there are only about 10⁸⁰ atoms in the entire observable universe, a dilution of one molecule in the observable universe would be about 40C.200 C dilution would thus require 10³²⁰ more universes to simply have one molecule in the final substance.Furthermore,the laws of chemistry state that there is a limit to the dilution that can be made without losing the original substance altogether. This limit, which is related to Avogadro's number, is roughly equal to homeopathic potencies of 12C or 24X (1 part in 10²⁴⁾. In other words a mole of substance contains only about 10²⁴ molecules and dilution of 10⁴⁰⁰ is meaningless.

^{Moreover,one fails to understand as to how the presence of minute quantity of metals in very dilute solutions has made them believe that "homeopathy works on the principles of nano-technology".This is a concoction of highest order.Where is the proof that presence of minute quantities of metals (mis-quoted as nano-particles) is the cause of clinically observable "effect"of homeopathic "drugs"?? What is the relationship between dose and response?? These "scientists"owe an apology for making bogus declarations without adequate proof.}

^{IIT Bombay should not have allowed its tag to be used for an obviously fake claim and how this bogus research found its way into a leading newspaper makes us ponder about quality standards of journalism in India.}

The Poverty Factor

Why do Indians entertain such a false and disproven belief as homeopathy at such a mass scale?. Probably, it can be traced to a great extent to abject poverty status in India with as many as 37% population below poverty line.It is the cost of modern treatment which in many cases forces the poor patient to take recourse to "alternative" treatment.However, it is so unfortunate that these poor people should be given false hope by "fake" doctors.The social security system of the country is in a dismal state,people don't have enough money to afford to pay medical insurance premiums and cost of modern drugs and diagnostics procedures is rising rapidly.However, none of these justify the existence of a trap of a fraudulent system of "treatment" which can never offer any relief,to say the least.

Thus on the one hand poor are facing the severest brunt in terms of bad health care by the practice of homeopathy,the rich are being lured into the trap through marketing gimmicks such as "multi-speciality clinics"(see previous post).There is so much on the stake for the people that we need to rise up to ban homeopathy.

"Homeopathy can kill !!"

Homeopathy is the antiscientific belief that infinitely diluted medicine in water can cure various ailments. It’s perhaps the most useless of all "alternative" medicines, since it clearly cannot work, does not work, and has been tested repeatedly and shown to be useless.

Thousands of patients (may be lacs) end up worsening their medical condition due to false but firm belief in homeopathy in India.Scores of such patients also die .The cases are either unreported or efforts to highlight them are gagged by powerful homeopathic lobby and blissfully ignorant government.Visit any super-speciality hospital in India and doctors would tell you about this pathetic and grim state of affairs where one pseudoscience is allowed to be practiced,not only practiced but also propagated, in utter disregard of concern for citizen's health.Infectious diseases which can easily be treated by antibiotic/anti-fungal/antiviral drugs become fatal with patients going to homeopathy who,though not always, doom them to catastrophe by denying them easy access to medications. Cancers are allowed to grow and metastasize (disseminate to other parts of the body) by ineffective sweet pills. Shrewd attempts to weave homeopathy in traditional Indian System of Medicine are only signalling a looming disaster for health of the mankind.