I don't support tax-funded homeopathy by any stretch (and think it is almost certainly bollocks in and of itself); however, the story about the bed sheets is not homeopathy.
Perhaps you could still claim homeopathy did the killing because the wife in the story 'misapplied' the "like cure like" conjecture; as wet bedsheets are not a diluted-herb-magic-water-solution.
I have spent more than zero energy talking with people about spending energy being anti-homeopathy. I think homeopathy is fine, and not harmful.
Every single person I know personally that believes in homeopathy also uses traditional western medicine (with far more vigour and enthusiam than myself); though I suppose if people are rejecting antibiotics and instead sprinkling magic water on themselves then it's a problem, but I would still have a hard time seeing Homeopathy itself as harmful. It's just a game.
My personal relationship to true homeopathy (diluted magic water substances) is something like this:
- Seems really unlikely to me anything is happening.
- I could sooo easily be wrong about this, I recognize revolutions in our understanding of the universe happen frequently, and the future winners are always dismissed/laughed at while the old guard remain in power positions
- The people who believe in homeopathy are also generally much, much more emotive / socially intelligent / free with love / full of what appears to be healthy energy.
This leaves me extremely skeptical; but in the end open minded enough that I don't see any benefit to spending energy demonizing the ultimately non-harmful act of diluting flowers in water and thinking its magic.
Anything anti-science is ultimately harmful if it is taught as science; and no one should have to subsidize other's childish fancies; but so long as we aren't teaching homeopathy in medical schools, or using tax money to subsidize its use; I really don't see anything wrong with its existing.
And I do see this article to essentially be propaganda; whose only primary purpose is to demonize homeopathy, and I think this betrays some sort of chip on the shoulder of the author. Maybe I am projecting because I have seen this chip so often elsewhere; I just don't understand it.
I mean, who the f really cares--and, if you really aren't humble enough to recognize that your understanding of the world is not so perfect as to absolutely eliminate the possibility of some unrecognized mechanism of 'imprinting information onto matter' through this likely quackery--then you should take a quick read of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Perhaps you could still claim homeopathy did the killing because the wife in the story 'misapplied' the "like cure like" conjecture; as wet bedsheets are not a diluted-herb-magic-water-solution.
I have spent more than zero energy talking with people about spending energy being anti-homeopathy. I think homeopathy is fine, and not harmful.
Every single person I know personally that believes in homeopathy also uses traditional western medicine (with far more vigour and enthusiam than myself); though I suppose if people are rejecting antibiotics and instead sprinkling magic water on themselves then it's a problem, but I would still have a hard time seeing Homeopathy itself as harmful. It's just a game.
My personal relationship to true homeopathy (diluted magic water substances) is something like this:
- Seems really unlikely to me anything is happening.
- I could sooo easily be wrong about this, I recognize revolutions in our understanding of the universe happen frequently, and the future winners are always dismissed/laughed at while the old guard remain in power positions
- The people who believe in homeopathy are also generally much, much more emotive / socially intelligent / free with love / full of what appears to be healthy energy.
This leaves me extremely skeptical; but in the end open minded enough that I don't see any benefit to spending energy demonizing the ultimately non-harmful act of diluting flowers in water and thinking its magic.
Anything anti-science is ultimately harmful if it is taught as science; and no one should have to subsidize other's childish fancies; but so long as we aren't teaching homeopathy in medical schools, or using tax money to subsidize its use; I really don't see anything wrong with its existing.
And I do see this article to essentially be propaganda; whose only primary purpose is to demonize homeopathy, and I think this betrays some sort of chip on the shoulder of the author. Maybe I am projecting because I have seen this chip so often elsewhere; I just don't understand it.
I mean, who the f really cares--and, if you really aren't humble enough to recognize that your understanding of the world is not so perfect as to absolutely eliminate the possibility of some unrecognized mechanism of 'imprinting information onto matter' through this likely quackery--then you should take a quick read of the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.