"One should doubtless keep an open mind...though open at both ends, like the food pipe, and have a capacity for excretion as well as intake." -- Northrop Frye, 'The Great Code'
The European Parliament ... agriculture committee has decided that the European Union will spend 2 million euros for homeopathical treatment of farm animals. ...
A hilarious primer on homeopathy [via Lubos' comment thread]:
At the risk of being a lone voice, I confess to having seen homeopathy work for both people and livestock. It is not a cure-all and end-all, but it is effective for certain things. Will it be effective in this case, I do not know but am willing to wait for the results.
I had a family member who lived in Surrey B.C. who died from this horrific disease 3 years ago so I am biased. I would try almost anything to deal with this disease!
I'm skeptical of the utility of homeopathy except as a placebo. I'm open to the possibility that there's something else going on but as far as I know there's a dearth of a) plausible theory and b) properly controlled experiments.
Maybe some of those 2 million euros will go towards credible scientific investigation.
At the risk of being a lone voice, I confess to having seen homeopathy work for both people and livestock. It is not a cure-all and end-all, but it is effective for certain things. Will it be effective in this case, I do not know but am willing to wait for the results.
ReplyDeleteI had a family member who lived in Surrey B.C. who died from this horrific disease 3 years ago so I am biased. I would try almost anything to deal with this disease!
ReplyDeleteI'm skeptical of the utility of homeopathy except as a placebo. I'm open to the possibility that there's something else going on but as far as I know there's a dearth of a) plausible theory and b) properly controlled experiments.
ReplyDeleteMaybe some of those 2 million euros will go towards credible scientific investigation.