telegraph.co.uk— Homeopathy is witchcraft and the National Health Service should not pay for it, the British Medical Association has declared.
May 16, 2010View in Crawl 4
Acupuncture can't redirect nerve impulses. That's nonsense.It can stimulate blood flow to the region where the needle is inserted.There's nothing mystical about that - the body detects a foreign object being inserted into the skin and sends more blood that way to fight off the intruder and fix the damage. No need to read anything more into it than that. It's certainly not fixing any underlying problem. A thin needle in your shoulder is not going to affect your lower back pain without the placebo effect.Anyone who claims they're redirecting your chi, or controlling pain by redirecting nerve impulses, is completely full of s**t.
Soooo, are you saying its NOT ironic? "The origin of the word has nothing to do with how effective it is." - Uh, yeah. No s**t. Never said it did."One word being derived from another is not the same thing as actually being the same word." - Brilliant! I guess that would kinda make it ironic huh? Especially if, say, a MD who uses tools NAMED after witchcraft, calls another profession witchcraft.Irony = (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or actions."But of course you don't really think Pharmaceuticals are the same thing as witchcraft. You're just being purposefully obtuse." - That's right. Just like the MD who doesn't think homeopathy is actual witchcraft.I guess we are being extra sensitive today.
theoddmanMay 16, 2010
She turned me into a NEWT!............I got better...
warcinMay 17, 2010
and science
temsiMay 17, 2010
Acupuncture can't redirect nerve impulses. That's nonsense.It can stimulate blood flow to the region where the needle is inserted.There's nothing mystical about that - the body detects a foreign object being inserted into the skin and sends more blood that way to fight off the intruder and fix the damage. No need to read anything more into it than that. It's certainly not fixing any underlying problem. A thin needle in your shoulder is not going to affect your lower back pain without the placebo effect.Anyone who claims they're redirecting your chi, or controlling pain by redirecting nerve impulses, is completely full of s**t.
steechMay 18, 2010
Soooo, are you saying its NOT ironic? "The origin of the word has nothing to do with how effective it is." - Uh, yeah. No s**t. Never said it did."One word being derived from another is not the same thing as actually being the same word." - Brilliant! I guess that would kinda make it ironic huh? Especially if, say, a MD who uses tools NAMED after witchcraft, calls another profession witchcraft.Irony = (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or actions."But of course you don't really think Pharmaceuticals are the same thing as witchcraft. You're just being purposefully obtuse." - That's right. Just like the MD who doesn't think homeopathy is actual witchcraft.I guess we are being extra sensitive today.
mu5qularMay 18, 2010
Not if you know how homeopathic medicine "works". then its an IQ problem.