Re: Anti-homeopathic rhetoric

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de)
Date: Wed Aug 04 1999 - 14:33:04 MDT


David Lubkin <lubkin@unreasonable.com> wrote:

> While there has past been criticism of homeopathy in other countries, it is
> now considered part of conventional medicine in many countries
> whose technology and medicine we respect -- such as France, Germany,
> and the UK -- as well as those we in the U.S. view more dubiously,
> like India and Brazil.

Ah, I love it. Has anybody else noticed how people (not only kooks)
love to refer to how their pet idea is receiving more approval in
other countries? Alas, this works increasingly less well with an
international audience.

Living here in Germany, I can tell you that homeopathy (Homöopathie) is
considered quackery. Except by the quacks and their victims, of course.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de


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