[Goanet] Pursuing Homoeopathy

On Fri, 7/17/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न < fredericknoronha at gmail.com > wrote:> * *>* I don't think it's fair to condemn or criticise someone for* >* their*> * religious beliefs, however bizarre these seem to us,* >* specially

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--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न wrote: > > I don't think it's fair to condemn or criticise someone for > their > religious beliefs, however bizarre these seem to us, > specially when > they don't affect us! > - Dear FN, Please give us a l

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2009/7/17 Carvalho : > It is unfortunate that Fr Ivo a man of letters and reading > has condoned the practice of exorcism I don't think it's fair to condemn or criticise someone for their religious beliefs, however bizarre these seem to us, specially when they don't affect us! Is this a latte

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> > --- On Thu, 7/16/09, isouza > wrote: But we do accept exorcism, as the > > Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: > > (no.1673 )"When the Church asks publicly and > > authoritatively in the name of Jesus Christ that a > person or > > object be protected against the power of the Evil One

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--- On Thu, 7/16/09, eric pinto wrote: > >I hope I offfered solace to both sides. > Eric provided solace only to one side. Indeed, he extended my position further by suggesting that what we are dealing with in respect of all the sundry alternative nostrums is entirely mental. But nothing coul

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  To Mario -  agga kittem mhuntolloi, I have stood on the sidelines all along, but could not resist this time around !  I hope I offfered solace to both sides.  Jawahar Mehta MD is a prominent Bombay psychiatrist. He made it there partly because I surrendered the only post-grad spot that was ava

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Santosh Helekar wrote: > This is hilarious. Accepting one unscientific ritual and rejecting > another appears to be based entirely on quirky personal tastes, faiths, > moods, whims and fancies. I am tempted to provide a list of all the > fantastic quack practices to find out which ones are to

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    I need to add this : Psychiatrists plays a useful and essential role in the delivery of comprehensive medical care to a community.  A near bankrupt US Veterans Administration pays them twenty thousand dollars a month, which sends us a message. They have access to drugs that did not exist on

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In esponse to this from me: jc2: Sure, provide anecdotal evidence but then "in order to grow" test the efficacy and safety by 'scientific' means available to ALL scientists. Fr Ivo wrote: ***"Anecdotal evidence" can come from the patients themselves or from the physicians. . "Anecdota

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From: "Santosh Helekar" --- On Thu, 7/16/09, isouza wrote: Astrology has its own plus points and has to be taken as such. The >Universe is interconnected, stars and moon have influence on human beings. I do not accept witchcraft. This is hilarious. Accepting one unscientific ritual and

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Eric is right. Psychiatry until recently, especially before it emerged from the Freudian flights of fancy, was also a quirky quack enterprise. Hopefully, some of us will be able to transform it into a complete science in the near future. Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 7/16/09, eric pinto wrote:

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  In a few words, Santosh has described a similar brand of medicine, much utilized in the West : it is called psychiatry !  It is home to several of its own 'schools,'  some soggy and idiosyncratic, with early forms bordering on the ritualistic.  Churchmen (Faith) were not exactly mesmerized by

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--- On Thu, 7/16/09, isouza wrote: > >Astrology has its own plus points and has to be taken as such. The >Universe >is interconnected, stars and moon have influence on human >beings. I do not accept witchcraft. > This is hilarious. Accepting one unscientific ritual and rejecting another appear

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From: "Santosh Helekar" --- On Wed, 7/15/09, isouza wrote: Homeopathy requires an individualised treatment. Therefore, patients cannot be subjected to double-blind trials. This is exactly the kind of convenient cop out that tells us why this practice is fundamentally unscientific. A doub

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--- On Wed, 7/15/09, isouza wrote: > >Homeopathy requires an individualised treatment. Therefore, patients > cannot be subjected to double-blind trials. > This is exactly the kind of convenient cop out that tells us why this practice is fundamentally unscientific. A double-blind experiment is t

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From: "J. Colaco < jc>" Srikant Barve says: This will help me a lot in my work on "All systems of medicine should interact with each other regularly for good of Humanity" Fr Ivo says: All medical systems should grow scientifically and work together. I endorse integration of all medical systems.

[Goanet] Pursuing Homoeopathy

From: "Santosh Helekar" --- On Mon, 7/13/09, isouza wrote: ***I am reading this type of "nice articles" from 'allopathic' surgeons and physicians, but it is difficult to "believe" them. Have they studied homeopathy, practised the principles and compared with 'allopathy', as Dr.S.Chander Mada

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Srikant Barve says: This will help me a lot in my work on "All systems of medicine should interact with each other regularly for good of Humanity" Fr Ivo says:  All medical systems should grow scientifically and work together. I endorse integration of all medical systems. All have their plus and m

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From: "SHRIKANT BARVE" Here is his interview in New Scientist: Edzard Ernst http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826531.400-interview-the-complementary-medicine-detective.html?full=true&print=true Santosh This is very interesting interview. This will help me a lot in my work on "All systems

[Goanet] Pursuing Homoeopathy

Here is his interview in New Scientist: Edzard Ernst http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826531.400-interview-the-complementary-medicine-detective.html?full=true&print=true Cheers, Santosh This is very interesting interview. This will help me a lot in my work on "All systems of medicine sh

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--- On Mon, 7/13/09, isouza wrote: > > ***I am reading this type of "nice articles" from > 'allopathic' surgeons and physicians, but it is difficult to > "believe" them. Have they studied homeopathy, practised the > principles and compared with 'allopathy', as Dr.S.Chander > Madan, for example, h

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From: "Santosh Helekar" Here is a link to a nice article on the absurdities of homeopathy by a world-renowned British cancer surgeon and a pre-eminent professor of complementary medicine who has thoroughly reviewed the literature on homeopathy: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/pr

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Here is a link to a nice article on the absurdities of homeopathy by a world-renowned British cancer surgeon and a pre-eminent professor of complementary medicine who has thoroughly reviewed the literature on homeopathy: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/printable/5100/ I think peopl

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