Comments on: Charlatans

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:13:52 +0000

Not if it meant having to chat with Rudolf Hess, the best-known exponent of homeopathy that I'm aware of.

By: Dr Thunder

Dr Thunder — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:50:40 +0000

Homeopathy. Cuntology, basically, if you ask me. In the UK, you can get a "BSc" in anything these days. There's all kinds of knobs walking about the hospitals with fuckin BSc, PhD, MSc degrees in all kinds of rubbish. There's even poxy homeopathic hospitals in the UK! Homeopathy doesn't work. The water is diluted so much that there's no active ingredient left in what you're taking. Having said that, what homeopathy does is give people time. They're great listeners. In a consultation, some "practitioner" will sit there and ask you about your childhood etc for like half an hour. That's somethiing that we in the health sector rarely have time to do. It's also something that can be enormously therapeutic. so, the stuff they give you to drop on your tongue…that's bollocks. But having a chat to some woman wearing beads about how you have no self esteem…go for it.

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:57:07 +0000

Darwin: You have to dilute yourself with liquor, but I doubt that will be much of a problem to you.

MairÃƒÂ©ad : Exactly. It's pseudo-science.

Vaccination can generate an immune response against a biological pathogen, but not against any other. However, pseudo-science operates in a devious and slippery parallel world where words mean whatever the charlatans want them to mean. That's why chancers can falsely claim that other illnesses can be treated the same way.

Listen to the way they abuse terms like energy and vibrations.

By: MairÃƒÂ©ad

MairÃƒÂ©ad — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:20:40 +0000

I'm no expert, user or friend of homeopathy, BUT, this crack of giving you a bit of what made you sick, to cure you??? Isn't that what we do to our babies with the MMR etc………..

By: Darwin

Darwin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:05:48 +0000

I'm trying a new alternative treatment called Sociopathy–I hope that doesn't mean I have to start diluting your column.

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:35:50 +0000

Messrs Swiss, Wegian, Drumm and Nipple: We seem to be at one on this. Maybe we should combine our energies.

Mr Headley: I had to dig you out of the bin. Well done.

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:46:08 +0000

All that spam I get has finally proved useful. It's getting hard to find dried tiger's penis lately. I may have to switch to Viagra.

By: b3n

b3n — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:13:55 +0000

Bock and Swiss: WTF so was I going to mention Homeopathy this morning but couldn't get it together, I'll be leaving it for later in the week. Is this a case of great minds or the fools one?
You forgot Reiki, Bock. I fuckin love that one!
'Here, let me rest me hands over you and you'll be grand'. I know a guy who does Reiki to people in the US over the phone!!!
And another mate got FAS to pay for his Shamanism course recently.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:44:05 +0000

There's a tv series about hokum coming up soon, fronted by Dawkins. Should be fun. In the meantime you should see some improvement in your disposition if you apply leeches to your eyeballs.

By: galwaywegian

galwaywegian — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:15:38 +0000

You've stumbled onto something here. Do you ever notice how alternative medical practitioners all hang out together and have unusual pets and dress strangely and seem to be able to communicate in code and laugh together at inopportune moments and smile for no apparent reason and never bless themselves when they pass a church. Bring back witch dunking i say. Now there's a reality TV show I would pay to view. (the dunking chairs and paraphinalia could be an interesting sideline in your effigy shops, by the way.)