Re: Interesting view on homeopathic medicine

To clarify, that was a snippet of the article. The full article is with the
link below.

"Skeptic" <bcs002b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DzM7g.937029$x96.314214@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Came across this article from the NESS, written by Steven Novella
(http://www.theness.com/articles.asp?id=6)

"Modern medicine is scientifically based because it bases its treatments
on a working model of disease which in turn is based on human physiology,
anatomy, genetics, and biochemistry. All of the principles are subject to
experimental scrutiny, and therefore change. They can be proven or
disproved by new information. New ideas are subjected to harsh criticism
by experts in the field, and must stand the test of such critical
examination before they are incorporated into clinical practice. The rapid
rate with which medical knowledge becomes obsolete is not a weakness but a
testimony to its scientific basis.

Homeopathy, on the other hand, is a pseudoscience because its underlying
principles are not founded in basic research and have remained largely
unchanged for almost two centuries. It shrouds itself in the trappings of
science, but is devoid of the real substance. Although today there are
many efforts to subject homeopathic remedies to double blind clinical
trials, homeopaths do not alter their treatments based on the results of
such research, they have often been shown to lack carefully controlled
techniques, and their interpretation of experimental results reeks of
magical thinking. "




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