CURE Quote
Homeopathy is not an alternative medical system, a non-mainstream approach to cure. It is not likely that it can be exported and fill the gap where biomedicine leaves people’s needs unmet more generally.
— Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures Volume I, 2004-
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Why Don’t we Know the Cause of Our Disease?
Why don’t we know the causes of our disease? Today, most adults have a disease or two. According to the US Centers For Disease Control, “As of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—had one or more chronic health … Continue reading
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Ignorance Causes Placebo Effect
What is the true cause of a placebo effects? Webster’s dictionary provides a not-cause, but no cause: “improvement in the condition of a patient that occurs in response to treatment but cannot be considered due to the specific treatment used“. … Continue reading
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US/FDA Extends Approval Nonsense to Homeopathic Medicines
On November 15th, the US/FDA announced a new policy for homeopathic drugs. You can read the press release here if you like. They US/FDA has announced that for homeopathic medicines,”Efficacy and Safety Claims Are Held to Same Standard as Other … Continue reading
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