permaculture

[Allan Balliett <igg@igg.com>]

"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