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Quackery busters (quack-busters) such as quackwatch (homeowatch) mostly categorically deny empiric science, denying the experience from millions of people, this is documented in "the quack files". Alternative medicine is a priory scientific not proven, denying that the WHO acupuncture and traditional medicine has marked as effective especially forexample in pain management, chronic disease and improving the quality of life. Quackbusters are therefore not reliable regarding consumer protection. We give you better anti-quackery resources:
Argument: Homeopathy is pseudoscience
Response: That depends on your definition of "pseudoscience". When you say: "Science is everything proven", you rather check your textbooks whether this is the case with areas of science such as philosophy, evolution, psychology, history etc. and you'll see there is more "evidence" on most main homeopathic subjects. When you say pseudoscience is "reaching a consensus without having the facts", again the same could be said about those areas
of science.
Argument: Homeopathic medicines are not evidence-based medicines
Response: What is your definition of evidence ? Most homeopathic remedies are empirical proven. The EVIDENCE on regular medicines seems strong, but they are just effective. There is no prove or evidence those remedies CURE, this is no denial that there are effects involved, there certainly are, but it is usually a balance of pros and cons.
Argument: Because homeopathic remedies are nothing more than placebos, cure is nothing more than the natural way the body cures itself
Response: This is like the argument which homeopathy use against main stream medicines. Because the body cures itself, traditional medicines could buy the body some time to reminiscent the healthy state and return to it. Homeopathic remedies could speed this up and help the body to do this, it IS the natural way, that's why it is difficult to prove it in the first place, because from the point of the observer there is not much difference.
Argument: Homeopathy is against vaccination
Response: Yes, very often. But people who decide not to take the vaccines should be under supervision and is always a personal decision. One complaint of homeopathy against vaccination is the number of side effects and the age being administered, which is often too young. Another complaint is that the epidemic is not healed and will come back in another more strengthened form, this is the homeopathic miasm theory
Argument: To be included in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia, the base is not scientific clinical trials, but homeopathic provings conducted during the 18th century and early 19th. (quackwatch)
Response: Homeopathic provings are still practice of homeopathy. Homeopathic pharmacopoeia are not the foundation of homeopathy as pharmaceutical pharmacopoeia are of scientific medicine. The U.S. and E.U. pharmacopoeia are limited by regulations. The real base is homeopathic materia medica pura and is structured in homeopathic repertoires. Those are the base on which homeopaths decide which remedy to choose.
Pharmaceutical pharmacopoeia give misleading information as they change their information depending on local regulations, an example is a big
Aropax reseller in Europe.
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medicine
Allopathy
Antipathy
Avogadro constant
Clinical trials
Dilation
Dilution
Disease
Effective
Evidence-based
medicine
Law of
infinitesimals
Law of similars
Mainstream
science
Materia Medica
Newton's third law
Placebo
Posology
Potentiation
Protoscience
Proving, provings
Pseudoscientific
Science
Stem Cells
Toxicology