Comments on: Another, smaller knife

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 15:49:00 +0000

Jim, In my defence I was writing a bit of polemic, not a serious paper on homeopathy, and this was in the BBC report:

"They stressed that homeopathic treatments were an alternative to expensive drugs, GP visits and emergency hospital admissions. "

By: john b

john b — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:29:00 +0000

It’s not a particularly good argument, but it is good vicious sarcasm, which I like, because I’m not very nice.

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:45:00 +0000

That'd be a slightly better argument if anyone anywhere was suggesting that homeopathy is a sensible way of dealing with knife wounds.

I don't have an opinion one way or another on the subject by the way, and haven't anything like enough information about it to make an informed comment; but so far as I'm aware homeopaths don't claim their technique is a panacea.

Tell you what; let's close down all the cancer treatment units... after all, if you get stabbed in a knife fight, you could try out the cancer clinic... they'll probably shoot you up full of radioactive chemicals!