It is junk, and to see Dawkins split the baby on this issue is a bit disappointing. My mom's retirement home was hit up by a con artist snake oil salesman. She was dressed up in Nurse scrubs without any medical stuff on her nor a license badge.
The objects she was selling for $20 bucks a pop were these little round patches, like the ones you see on medical electrodes, but with no wires. Basically she( the fake therapist, who was merely some con off the street) was conning these old people into believing that mere pieces of paper had real medical healing properties.
I chewed the retirement home management out for allowing this con to occur there. They have not been back since.
It is a con relying on the credulity and desperation of the people they sell this flat out garbage to.
There is an episode of the 1970s cop show Hawaii 5-0. Steve, the head cop on the show had a sister sucked into one of these scams. The villain had convinced his sister that he could cure her baby, suffering from terminal illness, that she could save the baby. She had an elaborate machine that would allegedly analyze the blood sample. When put on trial, Steve had a cop switch her demonstration sample with a ketchup stain, proving that the woman had committed a hoax. So I had been aware as a young kid that people can and do con other people.
The point being anything that you assert as being valid as a medical cure needs the rigors of established method, control groups and blind tests and peer review. Otherwise you will foolishly be lead to do stupid shit, like that idiot in the mid west that sold sweat tent therapy that killed 3 people.
Homeopathy is a scam. That is the bottom line. It sells on the idea "if you want to believe something bad enough, you will".
The objects she was selling for $20 bucks a pop were these little round patches, like the ones you see on medical electrodes, but with no wires. Basically she( the fake therapist, who was merely some con off the street) was conning these old people into believing that mere pieces of paper had real medical healing properties.
I chewed the retirement home management out for allowing this con to occur there. They have not been back since.
It is a con relying on the credulity and desperation of the people they sell this flat out garbage to.
There is an episode of the 1970s cop show Hawaii 5-0. Steve, the head cop on the show had a sister sucked into one of these scams. The villain had convinced his sister that he could cure her baby, suffering from terminal illness, that she could save the baby. She had an elaborate machine that would allegedly analyze the blood sample. When put on trial, Steve had a cop switch her demonstration sample with a ketchup stain, proving that the woman had committed a hoax. So I had been aware as a young kid that people can and do con other people.
The point being anything that you assert as being valid as a medical cure needs the rigors of established method, control groups and blind tests and peer review. Otherwise you will foolishly be lead to do stupid shit, like that idiot in the mid west that sold sweat tent therapy that killed 3 people.
Homeopathy is a scam. That is the bottom line. It sells on the idea "if you want to believe something bad enough, you will".
