NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.
Re:First AGW, Now Homeopathy (Score:1, Funny)
Why the hell isn't this rated 5, funny?!??!?
Homeopathic A&E (Score:5, Funny)
this makes it more powerful (Score:5, Funny)
As everyone knows the more you dilute a Homeopatheic reagent the more powerful it becomes. Diluting their funding will only make them stronger.
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:5, Funny)
They should continue funding homeopathy. Just dilute the funding until there's less than a fraction of a penny per bill. According to homeopathy, this should be even better than receiving the full amount.
Re:Here's a less harsh solution: (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, that's right -- since diluting homeopathic remedies makes them stronger, they'd be putting everyone at risk of overdose. Never mind, then.
The latest terror threat; credible reports have been received by British Intelligence that terrorists plan to drop small quantities of homeopathic remedies into the nations reservoirs. The resulting homeopathic overdoses could bring the nation to its knees.
Police are on high alert and pharmacies are advised to report any suspicious individuals purchasing homeopathic remedies, particularly individuals who purchase ONLY SMALL QUANTITIES at a time.
Re:Eh... no. (Score:4, Funny)
Hard to fathom (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eh... no. (Score:5, Funny)
Loophole (Score:3, Funny)
Even if the government stops paying for homeopathic medicine, you can just take your last subsidized dosage and add it to a gallon of distilled water. Not only do you now have more of it, it's now phenomenally more powerful! And when you're almost out, you can do it again! And it only gets better!
Seriously, why ever pay for this stuff more than once?
Re:Eh... no. (Score:4, Funny)
>> 99.999% of homeopathy is either water or sugar.
But ( 1.0 x -10^24 ) isn't.
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)
Saganite is a miracle element that can cure billions and billions of different diseases!
Tim Minchin - Storm (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s [youtube.com]
I Can See You All Feel Strongly About This.... (Score:1, Funny)
Perhaps too strongly, maybe you should take a pill.
Re:There's a difference (Score:4, Funny)
>> D) But that's supposedly OK, because water somehow has "memory" and cures every symptom like a substance it ever encountered. (So I guess since a lot of water is more or less recycled, and so many people wank in the shower, tap water should be a bulletproof contraceptive.)
That explains the fertility crisis many developed countries have!!! Damn you Homeopathy!!!
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)
You would be quite wrong in your claims. The term "homeopathy" was coined and first appeared in print in 1807 in the works by Samuel Hahnemann who founded homeopathy to begin with.
Your education is tuition free.
I would hope so since what you're saying is absolutely rubbish and wrong.
Re:There's a difference (Score:5, Funny)
(So I guess since a lot of water is more or less recycled, and so many people wank in the shower, tap water should be a bulletproof contraceptive.)
You're missing the fact that the vessel containing the water has to be hit firmly against a suitable object ten times in order for it to magically remember what it's supposed to do. The object is traditionally a leather cusion stuffed with horsehair. Now, I don't know what you get up to in the shower...
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:4, Funny)
Patient: Help me! I've overdosed.
Homeopathist: What did you take?
Patient: Nothing.
badum bum...
(Well somebody had to say it.)
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)
You laugh, but water poisoning is a very real, and very fatal condition... if you drink 20 gallons a day for about a year.
On the other hand, these people *are* drinking a whole lot of it.
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)
I see what you did there [wikipedia.org].
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:4, Funny)
Well if you were using Emacs you could have just done a M-x fight-infection and your thumb would have been better yesterday.
Homeopathy does work. (Score:3, Funny)
A homeopath recently overdosed. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:There's a difference (Score:3, Funny)
I seriously believe that if I spent an hour bashing my face into a brick wall, this would make perfect sense.
No, you have to dilute the bricks first.
Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score:3, Funny)