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

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.

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.

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

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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