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On The Stream: Why is homeopathy so popular when scientists say it's dubious?

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Thumbnail: A collection of homeopathic treatments in the office of homeopathic practicioner Begabati Lennihan, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 6, 2009. (AP/JOSH REYNOLDS)

[Wali-kwoy]

Homeopathy is a way of treating the patient not the disease. The way it work is totally impossible to explain with conventional science.

[shashijee]

If this is all placebo effect, then how it works on infants.

[Tordeques]

The sad thing is that a video like this will only ever be seen by people who already don't believe in homeopathy. People who believe in bs like this will never take actual information to heart.

[shadowfiend]

How do they cure asthma and eczema if thats placebo then why placebo dont occur when people try allopathy first and then go to homeopathy

[joannad]

The placebo effect and the careful consultation and interest shown in the patient by the practitioner are probably of great help.

[Rachidasister]

Millions swears by it because it WORKS. To know, just TRY and ignore the noise.

[mikeyoung]

The gulability of people is astounding

[dobr]

The enduring popularity of organised religion tells us that people can be very easily persuaded to believe in anything.

[robertshrewsbury]

I have used Homeopathic medicine for 50 years and it has always worked very well for me. However Homeopathic medicine has a protocol that has to be followed, such as do not take with Caffeine or Mint or other things like strong oils, which can cancel it.
I looked up Homeopathic medicine on Wikipedia and they say it is a Pseudo-Science, but then I am very much aware of some of the errors published on Wikipedia. I am a Metallurgist, Precious Metal Refiner and Assayer and I know my Elements very well and when I looked up info on Fe 60 on Wikipedia, it was easy for me to see many errors published by them. I wonder if they also do this in areas where I am not as knowledgeable??

[apteryx]

homeopathy works for me, my family, .my friends and my pets.
you think whatever you want about it.

[Ahsan]

One point to make after 5 years when we know the all scientist who believes that antidepressants works but they agreed now that they don’t understand the mechanisms and how they works. So we have cases in modern medicine like homeopathy. But the question is despite the fact we don’t know how homeopathy works but do they really work? The reaserch about that is not sufficient. So we should be more open minded.

[Naveedkhan-kcbf]

That medicine is not placebo but that mixing in alcohol direct a part of crude and that acting slowlly on nerves system the body resistance system acting against

[kingbing]

Ok till the time no proper explanation comes in support of We homoeopaths are still the best placebo therapists....now counter this. 😎

[yaz]

oh my God... that guy likes to shock people after giving them a placebo... weird!

[mdimrankabir]

People who thought modern medical science rejected homeopathy just because we do not know the mechanism of action of homeopathy is a wrong idea. Lot's of modern drugs approved by medical science despite unknown mechanism of action!!! Why? Because their satisfactory results in clinical trials. If we gather 100 patients having certain medical condition, divided them in two groups & give half of them homeopathic medicine claimed to cure that condition in proper dosage & half of them only super pill under supervision of both doctor & homeopathic practitioner. But same amount people relieved from that condition in both group, then confidently we can proved that homeopathy is nothing but a placebo.

[IbadRehman-uehs]

BEST SYSTEM OF MEDICINE BUT AMONG LOT OF DOCTORS VERY FEW ARE MASTERS THAT'S THE IRONY

[Chrisallengallery]

Drop a paracetamol in a bath of water, take a cup of that water and add it to another bath full of water. Do that 48 more times and you get Homeopathy.

[anton_roos]

Why does Peter call himself a doctor if he isn't a doctor?

[didemsalt]

once upon a time men could built a boat without knowing the law of buoyancy. But they knew how to get benefit from nature. Homeopathy is just like that, the chemical and biological structure of living things are mostly known today, but we have little knowledge about the physical, quantum side of them.. By homeopathy we can at least get possibity to get benefit for our health from these undiscovered sides. Do not forget, the easiest thing in the world is ignore or denial something by just speaking instead of searching or practising

[nelsonbartsch]

I use homeopathy in my animals and plantation with great success...they surely doesn't know what placebo is.