The Horizon show was a blow to homeopathy. The show may have educated some who knew nothing of homeopathy. The believers dismissed it right away. They blamed Randi saying that he was able to fix the results. Can you trust a magician, who wants to show that it is crap? It's an easy way out. The other way out was for them to blame the design of the experiment. They found many problems and think they were set up for failure.
I think the show strengthened many of the believers faith. They perceived their system was under an organized attack by the skeptics and they need to fight back. Big pharma (the devil) was paying for the attack. This reinforces their belief that homeopathy is so great that if people only knew truth people would leave real medicine for homeopathy. This would cost big phama millions.
I think the show strengthened many of the believers faith. They perceived their system was under an organized attack by the skeptics and they need to fight back. Big pharma (the devil) was paying for the attack. This reinforces their belief that homeopathy is so great that if people only knew truth people would leave real medicine for homeopathy. This would cost big phama millions.
