Other - Homeopathy

[Nature Boy]

Homeopathy, as a form of "alternative" medicine (claimed remedies that are not backed by hard evidence) has little scientific merit, if any, yet remains as one of the fastest growing fads on the planet. Double blind trials have confirmed that homeopathic remedies don't actually heal or prevent legitimate illnesses in the way antibiotics or vaccines would. At most, homeopathic remedies only produce a placebo effect in patients. This is advantageous in terms of minor ailments that would cure themselves on their own but is entirely misleading and potentially lethal should the patient reject conventional medicine when they are in dire need of it. Suspicion of the medical and pharmaceutical communities have inspired a great number of people to turn to illegitimate treatments without understanding exactly why pharamceuticals and treatments have escalated in price the way they have over the past decade. What's more is that people are not looking into the effects of these alternative solutions at all! People can be prescibed water as medicine these days and expect to pay good money for it.

The cost hike in conventional medicine is largely down to the delays involved in testing time. When a new legitimate medicine is concocted nowadays it will take years of testing before it will be openly released on the market. This adds to the price greatly. Also, the widespread rejection of effective medicine being provided in bulk drives up the cost. Governments can afford producing flu shots for the masses but if the public does not support them, costs will increase because the incentive to offer these medicines in bulk at a sound price will reduce i.e. "biting the hand that feeds you".

Effective medicine is in demand where it is needed, especially in third world countries. Seemingly eradicated illnesses in western society such as measles have returned in epidemics and there are now recorded 21st century deaths as a result of measles in the United Kingdom due to the now infamously spiralling autism myth, based on speculation, which resulted in one fifth of the UK's child population not taking the essential MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. Just because we haven't seen diseases in a generation doesn't mean they can't return.

I advise anyone who reads this to understand the difference between conventional medicine and "alternative" medicine. Read into it, people are being misleaded by glamourised nonsense. Religious misinterpretations and beliefs are potentially dangerous on a large scale. Medicial misinterpretaions are potentially dangerous on a personal scale. There's a reason why decent doctors spend nearly a decade in medical school. There is no reason behind a self-declared homeopathic witchdoctor spending the best part of a week sprucing up their fancy new age medical "practice" with purple cushions and scented candles. Well, there may be a reason. They want to con you. Think about it.

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