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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg@igg.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:55:24 -0500


"keller" wrote:
This is a good example of the unscientific stuff that we have to get rid of!
It is totally irrational to stick to homeopathy when it has been refuted
long ago. One could question if these studies had been methologically sound,
but just to ignore them and go on with the stuff is nonsense. It is a sign
of an unscientific thinking that can only hurt the case of the environmental
movement. Unclear thinking leads to taking the wrong actions, and makes it
easy to attac what one is doing. These studies did not hurt homeopahy a iota
because the people who believe in it will just ignore them and dismiss the
scientific way of thinking in the same line. This leads to irrational
thinking and acting, and that is dangerous.

Sorry I used such a potentially controversial example. As a farmer and a parent, I just thought that most pc people would be onboard with homeopathy through their direct experience. My conversion to homeopathy was simple: I used it on myself (arnica for bruising after I fell off a porch onto my face on a paving stone) and was astounded by it's effectiveness. (And it used to be so CHEAP! ;-) The placebo thing is bunk: homeopathy works best on 'clear systems': children and animals (who know nothing of the expectations). I've had raging children singing within moments of being given THE CORRECT REMEDY and have raised cows from barn floors after the vet has said 'she's down, that's it,' with homeopathy.

The power of the minimum dose is not likely to be aknowledged any time soon by a cultural economy based on bulk materialism. The history of homeopathy in the US is a sterling example of how an 'art' can be run out of the marketplace by 'business.'

I think it is an error to as ask that pc 'compete' or justify itself within the rules of this same system.

-Allan





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