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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Open minded I'll grant you, but if you're still not willing to admit that homeopathy is anything but snake oil, you're not much of a skeptic.
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I never said that homeopathic remedies work or didn't work. I just said that not ALL homeopathy is bullshit. The "theory" behind it is sound (antibiotics and other inoculations) ... these compounds exist in nature therefore we should be able to take advantage of them in natural remedies (if you discount the spirituality side which is a whole other argument).
While I AM
skeptical of almost all homeopathic remedies on the market I don't ever discount anything just because somebody says it's bullshit. I'm somewhat of a radical materialist when it comes to this kind of stuff--I need to see it to believe it (or disbelieve it). Would I use a homeopathic product? Probably not. Unless someone really had irrefutable proof that it worked.
Perhaps I should refine my stance ... I assumed (my bad) that you were lumping naturopathic "medicine" in with homeopathic remedies. While I am still skeptical of
naturopathy I find the evidence for its success somewhat stronger than in so-called homeopathic remedies.
So it probably comes down to an argument of semantics and is pointless beyond entertainment. I also don't put a lot of stock in Wikipedia as a source ... especially in an article with an obvious bias starting as early as the second paragraph.