Re: [H] Combos and complexes

Oh, I think that you'll find that every time I've mentioned *what
homoeopathy is* -- and it's a shame that it had *ever* to be stated for the
benefit of its supposed practitioners! -- I've done so within a single
sentence, as I did in the very e-mail you've answered here:

"it uses the known capacities of a drug to cause illness in the healthy as
the basis for prescribing it in a natural illness to which its effects are
most similar".

Mostly, in fact, those who understand the principle just expressed have
managed to define it in a single phrase rather than use an entire clause
like that: a phrase such as you'll find in any adequate dictionary (i.e.
not a student dictionary, a translation dictionary, or a cheap knockoff).

The concept isn't difficult or complicated until you choose to try to blend
it with irrelevant concepts -- or to misunderstand altogether a
definition's function: to distinguish what falls within the defined term's
meaning from what falls without.

Kind regards,

John

On 4 January 2012 16:48, Irene de Villiers <furryboots@icehouse.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:44 PM, John Harvey wrote:
>
> > Hi, Hennie --
> >
> > It surprises me to read that you'd have trouble explaining what
> homoeopathy
> > is in a single sentence.
>
> That's rich, coming from you!
>
> :-)
>
>
>
--

"Do pertussis vaccines prevent children and adults from breathing in
pertussis bacteria from the air? No. Do children vaccinated with the
pertussis vaccine somehow stop carrying pertussis bacteria in their airways
simply because they've been vaccinated? No. Do pertussis vaccines stop
vaccinated children from transmitting the pertussis bacteria to other
people? No. Do pertussis bacteria disappear from society once vaccination
rates are high? No.

"Vaccination rates for pertussis have no impact on whether the pertussis
bacteria are in the air or not, or whether or not we breathe them in. The
presence of the pertussis bacteria, and the exposure to them, are in no way
affected by vaccination status or vaccination rates."

—Lawrence B. Palevsky, M.D., "False alarm over pertussis 'outbreak': a
letter from Lawrence B. Palevsky, December 2011", <
http://drpalevsky.com/dr_palevsky_letter_pertussis.asp>
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