Homeopathic HCG Is BS!
Here is a just a quick definition of Homeopathy as we understand it. First some find something that causes problems similar to what you want to cure. So lets say you want to cure neurodegeneration, while something that might cause that would be rattlesnake venom. So you take the venom and put one drop in a vial with 100 drops of water. You then shake that up for so many specific shakes. You then take one drop of that solution and mix it will 100 more drops of water. Shake. One drop of that solution with 100 drops of water. Shake.
Repeat for at least 8 more times, which means that you now have a solution that is 1 drop of venom to 10,000,000,000,000,000 drops of water. 1 drop venom to 10 quadrillion drops of water. Using the volume of a drop of water I found online, I translated that out to gallons. That is 1 drop of venom to 66,307,184,801 gallons of water. Just for reference that is like dropping One drop of Venom into 100,400 Olympic size swimming pools. That is about as concentrated as you get with a Homeopathic remedy.
Needless to say that drinking one glass of water from this “Solution” is effectively drinking water. The chance that even one molecule of venom is in there is so small it is effectively nonexistent. You have better chances of hitting the Powerball three times in your life.
Homeopaths think that by mixing the Venom in the water the first time you then made all the water have a “Memory” of the venom. But, the memory doesn’t make the water act like the venom, no instead it makes it act like the opposite of the venom. I still haven’t figured out how that is supposed to work.
While I was searching for a picture of the HEAD ON box, I came across the Doctor’s Trust website. They have a collection of 43 things that are labeled as homeopathic and they also have a definition of homeopathic. Needless to say their definition seemed poor to me. Homeopathic things aren’t the only medicine that they sell, but the sheer fact that they sell it at all makes me not trust the site, regardless of the name.
While looking at the sleep aid section for an experiment I wanted to try, I ran across this gem.
Other Ingredients:
Active Ingredients: Kali brom 30c HUPUS, Coffea cruda 30c HPUS, Passiflora 30c HPUS, Avena 30C HPUS, Alfalfa 30c HPUS, Valerina 30c HPUS.
Inactive Ingredients: Lactose, Sucrose.
Suggested Serving: On first use, turn pack upside down and break seal by pressing base hard with thumb. Press base twice to release 2 pillules into cap, unscrew cap and without touching pillules tip them into the mouth. Chew or let dissolve in mouth 2 pillules 4 hours before bedtime. Repeat immediatley before retiring. An additional 2 pillules may be taken during the night if required. Take between meals.
Precautions: If symptoms persist consult a registered medical practitioner. Consult a physician before taking this product if you are pregnant or nursing or if symptoms persist. Keep all medicines out of the reach of children.
The first red flag in there should be that none of the “Active Ingredients” are actual medicine. They are all flowers and grass and various other garbage that no one has ever seen help anyone go to sleep. Some of it might even be harmful. Good thing the chance that there is any of this in the actual pills is so low.
Next comes the majority of the pillules ingredients: a part of milk and some sugar.
Then come the directions. It tells you to take them 4 hours before you plan to go to bed. How many other sleeping pills tell you to take them that far ahead of time? Hell , most of them tell you to take them in bed, because otherwise you will be sleeping on the kitchen floor. What are the chances that if you take something that four hours later you might feel tired naturally? Next it tells you to take it again right before bed. Well what were the first ones for then? Preparing your body for the next pair? Then it says you can take two more later if you need them. How many other sleeping pills can you find that have actual ingredients that tell you it is ok to take 6 pills within the space of say 8 hours? I bet the number is somewhere close to zero.
Section two tells us that if anyone taking these continues to have the problem, maybe they should call their doctor. So basically:
If you have trouble sleeping and eating these sugar pills doesn’t help you sleep, then perhaps you should talk to someone that knows something about medicine and the human body, because obviously our bunk science can’t help you out.
Homeopathy, like astrology, was a pretty clever idea if you really think about it. You have to be a pretty creative person to devise this type of concept. Science was extremely skeptical based on the lack of an apparent plausible mechanism, yet open minded to the idea. If the evidence in a proper double blind experiment showed the homeopathic remedy to be any more than a placebo effect, science and medicine would never be the same. Unfortunately, ALL credible proper experimentations have shown homeopathy to be utter nonsense.
James Randi, the man explaining homeopathy in this clip, has an educational foundation in his name that you may access at www.randi.org. His foundation is known for, among other things, offering 1 million dollars USD to “anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.” (from the website) Homeopathy is included in this challenge. If you can show medicinal effects of homeopathy, you win 1 million dollars. And Randi has lowered the bar. He has offered a test in which all the homeopaths have to do is differentiate between water and the supposed homeopathic solution. A group called “Horizon” did just that in an attempt to win the money.
Here is a video clip of this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Z1QFZcnAi4
So obviously they could not even differentiate between which samples were homeopathic and which were plain water. If it is so clear, why do people believe?
- Faith. Like anything else without any evidence, advocates of homeopathy have faith. Faith is defined by the belief in something without evidence. The evidence homeopaths have brought thus far has been faulty and shown to be. When real scientists do proper experiments, homeopathy is shown to have no effect.
- Conspiracy Theorists. Big Pharma (Pfizer, Merck, etc.) is suppressing the truth to line their pockets with money so they can get rich at the extent of everyone's health. But think about it… what is a homeopathic remedy. It is usually a heavily diluted solution on a sugar pill. That sounds pretty inexpensive to make… Why wouldn’t Big Pharma just end their conspiracy and make their own? Because obviously there is no conspiracy. For a conspiracy to exist, all of the pharmaceutical companies coupled with every reputable scientist who have experimented on this issue would have to be in on it to get rich. That’s a lot of people keeping quiet.
- Anecdotal evidence. Well, my friend had a cold. She took a homeopathic remedy and the cold went away. Therefore, homeopathy works. She was so sure of this that she signed an affidavit under oath. So what is the problem? The problem is that this does not prove anything. Our body heals itself in the case of a cold. This does not necessarily mean the medicine worked. It only means that the user attributed their recovery to it. So how do we find out homeopathy’s efficacy? We do proper experiments.
Let me give you another example: Say I was attacked by a bear one day and survived. After this attack and my recovery, I was given a rock by a man who said that it prevents bear attacks. So I carry it in my pocket everywhere I go, and since I have had it, I have never been attacked by a bear. Thus, this rock prevents bear attacks.
Hopefully you can see the obvious logical fallacy in this example. It is silly to attribute the lack of a bear attack to a rock because we have no evidence that rocks prevent bear attacks. But this is what people do in medicine. We get better and ask ourselves “what did we change?” Ever since I started taking a homeopathic remedy, I felt better and eventuallyrecovered. OK… but was the homeopathic remedy even partially responsible? Science says NO. And it is up to the homeopaths to prove differently. If they can, they will have 1 million dollars…
Until then, it is absolutely ridiculous for anyone to believe this garbage for any reason. They aren’t free thinkers. They are idiots. They mask their delusion in “peace, love, and happiness” garbage. They attack us, saying that we are attacking their ideas. Yet their ideas are asinine, childish, and dangerous and are deserving of complete and unmerciless debunking by smart people. They are surely killing more people than they are helping. What about the person who needs actual medical care and instead turns to homeopathy. Chances are he is in trouble.
We are not intolerant of differing ideas and opinions. We are not saying we have all of the answers. We are saying that until proven otherwise, homeopathy is bullshit. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience.