Kasz216 said:
While I do agree Homeopathy is useless... there is plenty of room for argument and discussion. For example, a lot of people are being denied their preffered way of treatment however are still forced to pay into a national healthcare plan. It'd be like forcing Christian Scientists or whoever those guys are that don't use hospitals into an insurance plan. Additionally, even if the effect is consistant with placebos... Placebos DO have an effect... |
But I don't want hundreds of alternative placebos though. It's a waste.
Placebos do have an effect, but I am against homeopathy being used as one in national health. Call me cynical, but I would rather have my national healthcare system focusing on real medicine as opposed placebos that involve mixing wolfs bane with sugar water, shaking it and telling me it will cure my ear infection.
If you want to give a patient a placebo, an inexpensive inert tablet or sham surgery is more than suffice.
If we want to go down the route of providing multiple abstract and resource consuming placebos, then why don't we put faith healing churches in hospitals? Why don't we build reiki regeneration wards? Or crystal healing clinics?
We know that sugar pills are consistent placebos without having to waste money on alternative placebo treatments that have the same level of effectiveness.
