so anyways carrying on from:
you shouldn't really downgrade my perspective just because i disagree with you on another point of view which is completely unrelated to aliens and pyramids... I mean i think the pope's opinions on Catholicism is probably the most authoritative on the subject... however i still don't really agree with his thoughts on young boys...Shepherd_of_Anu wrote:I have been following this thread but until this point I was willing to give your POV full credence but after reading this point I feel obliged to downgrade your perspective somewhat.ChrisCV wrote:its kind of like all the wackos that believe in homeopathy...
Although I am not a homeopathy nut, I do believe in the power of nature to heal in manners that do not involve unnatural chemicals produced by humans... ie... most pharmaceutical treatments and so forth...
anyways... how you've described your case for the defence of homeopathy/alternative treatments is, ironically, exactly the way i described, or tried to describe, how people defend homeopathy, like they do with conspiracy theories and alien stories... lots of speculation based on small bits of supposed evidence where you can tenuously connect the dots...
in your case, you were the single case of supposed evidence... i say supposed, because you took a load of magic pills over a few weeks, and at the end you never got any nosebleeds ever again, giving you the sense of correlation between your ailment and the magic pills... however you don't actually know 100% if those pills actually did stop the nosebleeds... there could be a whole host of reasons why it stopped... maybe you were growing out of nosebleeds.. i used to get nosebleeds all the time as a kid too then all of a sudden they just stopped for no real reason... maybe you were more conscience of the nosebleeds so you stopped picking your nose all the time? maybe it did actually work? who knows?? there could be any kind of other factor that stopped your nosebleed, you need to account for these first before jumping to the conclusion that it was the pills...
that's why normal drugs are supposed to be tested properly, using real evidence (large test groups, control groups,etc) that is peer reviewed. This way they can get rid of any statistical anomalies and make sure that what they're making and putting out there actually does work for most people and that its not going to kill you... its like designing a crash helmet around person's headsize... testing it on one person and going since it worked for this person when they crashed, it must therefore work for everyone else in the world...
anyways.... with homeopathy you don't need to do any kind of testing... you can just make some stuff up, based on some loose idea which is often unfounded... sell it to the public, make a shed load of cash on it... and when people have done proper studies of homeopathy the results often point to a performance no better than placebo... statistically people don't get any better when taking magic pills... a lot of the evidence points to this conclusion...
i'm not saying don't believe in nature... nature is a marvel and is an inspiration... it is a well honed system from millions of years of evolution.. we have so much more to learn from nature...
i'm saying we need to believe in things that have been proven or have a body of evidence that points to a rational explanation... not romantic ideas based on speculation and supposed evidence...
Homeopathy however is not nature... its a multi million pound industry based on unfounded ideas with no evidence to suggest that it works... a lot of the other alternative therapies are like this too...
