Also what controversy? Luc Montagnier was widely derided.
I was curious who would have to play the "confirmation bias" card first to try to win a stupid debate. I'm glad I was able to hold out longer.
18 years of personal experience aside in my own case...
Here's some for other applications of the practice:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9310601
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14734789
and as to my point earlier on how efficacy rates for CH treatments can be very odd and hard to measure:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15455406
That's a diarrhea treatment...
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With a placebo effect the results are usually unreliable or inconsistent and very short-lived. It's been effective for months now. I'm also well aware of the placebo effect, I however do not agree in my case that is what is going on as my experience doesn't conform to what would be expected. Your opinion would insinuate that I have some sort of vested interest in this...like I could give a fuck beyond trying to show someone that being skeptical is fine but not to the point where it just becomes ignorance. I'm not advocating that it's all awesome and should be taken at face value because it helped some people, but saying it's 100% bullshit is disingenuous to say the least.
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Shocking, people disagreed. Call the newspapers because that never happens.
Going to bed now, enjoy your circle jerk.
Inform her how homeopathy was invented. By a single german man with some crazy ideas with no single scientific foundation.
Samuel Hahnemann (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843)
While translating William Cullen's A Treatise on the Materia Medica, Hahnemann encountered the claim that cinchona, the bark of a Peruvian tree, was effective in treating malaria because of its astringency. Hahnemann believed that other astringent substances are not effective against malaria and began to research cinchona's effect on the human body by self-application. Noting that the drug induced malaria-like symptoms in himself, he concluded that it would do so in any healthy individual. This led him to postulate a healing principle: "that which can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy individual, can treat a sick individual who is manifesting a similar set of symptoms."
This principle, like cures like, became the basis for an approach to medicine which he gave the name homeopathy.
Today we know that the in Quinine ((R)-(6-Methoxyquinolin-4-yl)((2S,4S,8R)-8-vinylquinuclidin-2-yl)methanol) in cinchona is the reason it works against malaria (It facilitates the aggregation of cytotoxic heme. Free cytotoxic heme accumulates in the parasites, causing their deaths.).
So he based the whole idea on a wrong assumption. Information und knowledge is power. Don't let her be ignorant and stupid. Tell her that she just reduced the intake of Calories/Joule. It has nothing to do with the water or the homeopathy.
Eat less but more often and healthy food (less burgers, more salads) and moderate exercise is the key to loose weight. It's not so fancy, but definitly cheaper than 150$/month for tap water with some mumbo jumbo name.
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Atoms are liars, they make up everything!
But you do have a vested interest in this. If it were in fact simply a placebo effect, and that what you were ingesting was completely and utterly useless, it would cause you to question the actual results, and likely any future results, thus threatening the chances of continued success with the "treatment".
By refusing to acknowledge that it may be a placebo effect, you can continue to enable it. If it continues to give you positive results, more power to you, although I'd be looking to dig down in your backyard as far as it takes to hit water and convincing myself that it was enriched with special anti migraine minerals.. that way I could get an endless supply for free.
It's funny how you apparently have no idea what confirmation bias even means.
Is meaningless and unscientific.18 years of personal experience
(Some of) the same authors two years later: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10391656
"We conclude that in the study set investigated, there was clear evidence that studies with better methodological quality tended to yield less positive results."
"This study was designed as a feasibility or pilot study rather than a definitive clinical trial". They also used a 10% significance level which is quite improper. Absolutely does not prove that an inert substance has actual medicinal values.
What's shocking is you disregarding how almost the entire scientific field disagreed.Shocking, people disagreed.
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I believe XKCD has the appropriate comic:
Seriously, people. Science 101. It's a placebo, and it only treats symptoms, not the root cause.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
If it motivates her i don't see much reason to tell her that it doesen't make a diffrence. As long as it doesen't go out of hand.
It doesn't treat anything. There are literally not enough molecules of medicine in a homeopathic "remedy" to have any effect of significance.
It's literally a case of mind over matter - you took something that says it will make you feel better, and you feel better because you believe you should. Not because there's actual medicine going to work; no, you're just drinking an expensive bottle of water.
Yes 500 Calories is a bit low. I don't know how much of a problem weight is for his/her wife. I think the lowest you can go was around 900 iirc.
But with motivating her i meant more something like motivating her to diet.
Well i can only assume this came after they started dating! People change a lot along the way
150 euros per month for ionized water ? Talk about victims of advertisement . Talk TO HER ! It's important that she knows what she's been taking and that she needs or might need to check up on a psychologist .
I'm really disturbed by the unseen traps that exist in today's world .
I come across a quiet river, that wonders through the trees.
I stare into its running waters and fall unto my knees.
In resignation to the forest, that's held me for so long.
I close my eyes and drift away into nature's evensong.
A bit low? It's literally a quarter of the daily recommended intake. Unless she's very small or has a metabolism which is much more active than normal (in which case she wouldn't be wanting/needing to lose weight anyway), even 1400 calories a day would qualify as "extreme weight loss."
Why does 1400 calories counts as extreme weight loss? isn't the calorie intake for women about 1600?
Recommendations
The number of calories a woman needs daily varies according to age. Younger women generally need more calories than older women, as they tend to have more muscle mass and be more active. A woman aged 19 to 30 years needs between 2,000 and 2,400 calories daily. A woman aged 31 to 50 years needs 1,800 to 2,200 calories daily. Women over age 51 need 1,600 to 2,200 calories daily.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/36...#ixzz2JBLVHIAP
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