And about time too!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744858
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744858
I'm not sure this is so great. Placebos are proved to be very effective and cheap to produce with Homeopathy being the most popular type.
I'm not sure this is so great. Placebos are proved to be very effective and cheap to produce with Homeopathy being the most popular type.
Well at least you've acknowledged it is a placebo. Purely sugar and water nothing else. But the article is about it being blacklisted from the NHS. If you want to waste your own money on this rubbish feel free but the taxpayer shouldn't fund it.
Well at least you've acknowledged it is a placebo. Purely sugar and water nothing else. But the article is about it being blacklisted from the NHS. If you want to waste your own money on this rubbish feel free but the taxpayer shouldn't fund it.
This, so absolutely I would take one letter from this post, drown it in water, shake it a lot, then add some more water and repeat until the sentiment becomes much stronger than GB's.
Presumably NICE have concluded that it's a cost effective treatment for what it's used to treat, i.e the placebo effect, if so I don't see why it shouldn't stay.
Being available on the NHS effectively gives the whole thing a sense of scientific legitimacy. If people want to spend their money on it, fine. But let's not pretend it's anything other than a load of mumbo jumbo. If the NHS were really in the business of prescribing placebo's, they can just hand out sugar pills without having all the ritualised nonsense of homeopathy.
It obviously is 'mumbo jumbo' but if it works and is cost effective why not use it?
It obviously is 'mumbo jumbo' but if it works and is cost effective why not use it?
Just because science can't currently explain it, it doesn't mean it doesn't work.
Before the 1960s, Higgs-Bosun particles weren't even dreamed of.
What is the next fundamental discovery beyond quantum physics ?
Let's not be all 'Flat Earth' about this.
In a place I used to work, one of the hippy owners bought a homeopathic first aid kit. One day I pretended that I was ill and swallowed the lot - about 300 pills in total, amazingly I lived. The owner never spoke to me again.