Originally posted by humy
it means looking at the person as a whole, i mean how hard can it be to engage your imagination, sleeping patterns, diet, emotional state, environment, all kinds of things not associated with a purely materialistic approach.
Those things are psychological -right -so you saying homeopathy works by a placebo effect? Well, that doesn't ...[text shortened]... and just possibly even twice by antibiotics. Do you deny this? What would you have against that?
No i am not saying that it works by a placebo effect and i resent your attempts to put your guilty fingers on my keyboard, in fact I call homeopathy as anything out with the realm of conventional materialism, like aromatherapy, or reflexology. This latter practice i have seen have amazing effects on aggressive psychiatric patients treated for many years without much success from conventional materialism.
No you are constructing a straw man, i have not said that antibiotics have not helped many persons and its quite frankly rather tedious to have to address points that i have not made rather than those that i have, not to mention irrational and illogical. For some people they have an extremely adverse effect and no its not cherry picking, its a statement of fact.
I have not ignored anything, you can cite as many studies complied by legions of materialists, debunks by peer reviewed papers until your hearts content, it does not negate that for some people homeopathy has worked.
If i am suffering stress and its having an adverse effect on my health, i could go to see a general practitioner, they may prescribe a mood lifting drug or i could go to a clinically trained aromatherapist and be massaged with essential oil, or go to the gym and then the sauna and feel awesome afterwards, now which form appears to you to be more healthy? taking pills or seeking an alternative natural remedy? I think its clear to all rational logically minded persons that a natural solution is better than taking pills to artificially induce a mood change and yet this scenario is carried out in countless doctors surgeries every single day!
'The God of Science', is an excellent phrase used to describe the way that science is treated almost as a deity, able to perform miraculous cures, no one may question it, it is omnipotent and an all encompassing megalith! We look to you the 'God of science', you are our only hope! in you we trust!
I deny nothing! and I have not 'pooh poohed', conventional medicine, i have merely pointed out that for some, it does not work or has adverse effects and they are forced top seek alternative treatment elsewhere. Now if you are finished building straw men arguments, ill be on my way!
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