Re: [H] Did homeopathy kill Steve Jobs, founder of Apple

Okay, good luck with that.

Start the petitions going around, and I'll sign.

In the mean time I'll stick with using modifiers such as "classical,"
just as most of the rest of the country is doing. To each his own...

On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:51 PM, John Harvey wrote:

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> Shannon, you've asked this many times before, at just this point in
> the conversation, and I recall your question receiving interesting
> answers that it might be instructive for you to consult; but let me
> have a go at answering the question.
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> All of us are in charge of getting the word "homoeopathic" off
> bottles of mixtures. It shouldn't be that hard to achieve, with a
> bit of an effort. In Australia at least, homoeopathy is accurately
> defined in legislation; as a result, it's technically illegal to
> label mixtures as being potentially homoeopathic. If the practice
> occurs nevertheless (and I've no doubt it does), then it's due to
> our slackness in calling for the law to be enforced and our
> tolerance of charlatans who refer to such mixtures as homoeopathic
> on our own homoeopathy lists.
>
> The discrepancy between fact and label claim seems to be your most
> consistent bugbear. Perhaps you'd make an energetic and effective
> leader in the campaign in your own country to have inaccurate
> "homoeopathic" labelling removed.
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> As for "other places", the responsibility for not misleading people
> as to what homoeopathy is and what it is not lies with each one of
> us. Anybody who maintains that the meaning of homoeopathy now
> includes polypharmacy or any other practice that violates the
> homoeopathic principle (remember: symptom similarity, without a
> substitute in clinical "success") exacerbates the fundamental
> misrepresentation. To claim that homoeopathy can include
> polypharmacy is not slack, ignorant, or cute; it's simply a lie, and
> an unoriginal one oft disproven.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> John
>
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> On 18 December 2011 11:55, Shannon Nelson <shannonnelson@tds.net>
> wrote:
> Cool, then we're golden.
> So who's in charge of getting the word off all those bottles of combo
> remedies?
> Not to mention the many other places it's been in use for lo these
> many years.
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> "And if care became the ethical basis of citizenship? Our
> parliaments, guided by such ideas, would be very different places."
>
> —Paul Ginsborg, Democracy: Crisis and Renewal, London: Profile, 2008.
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