"Amy used ConMed treatment for herself and her family until her 3 year old son showed signs of autism, and that started her search for a safer form of medicine. She found homeopathy, and as she says, "after two years of treatment, he was testing normally and was released from eligibility for special education benefits".
The skeptics will dismiss this experience as anacdotal; but then they would, wouldn't they!
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So he turned out not to be autistic. Good for him. Meanwhile, let's hope he doesn't get really ill, cos his Momma might not get real medicine, and kill him with only her magic water.
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] The skeptics will dismiss this experience as anacdotal; but then they would, wouldn't they!
You know, just because you are predicting what your critics will be saying does not mean that they are wrong
And correct me if I am wrong, but this is just “anacdotal”[sic] evidence. If it is not just made up by you (or Amy).
I 100% believe this story. However, one child "showing signs" of autism and then turning out not to actually have autism, is hardly fucking earth-shattering. What would be earth-shattering, however, is if a glass of water turned out to be a cure for anything except mild dehydration.
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"Homeopathy is 100% safe. Its as safe as drinking clean water."
I'm not sure I can agree with your definition of "safe". Refusing to give someone medicine and saying "drink this magic water instead" is not safe. It's as evil as faith healing.
"The skeptics will dismiss this experience as anacdotal; but then they would, wouldn't they!"
Well, until Homeopathy can regenerate a missing limb (unlike, say... a windpipe transplant from bone marrow Stem Cell generation; via [i]proven[/i] medical science ), then a definite case of...:
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It's the reason why this pioneering British technique has been passed by the MHRA , and Homoeopathy never will. Because it's been proven to work.
When your 'magic water' can do exactly the same, let us know. We won't be holding our breaths, though (pun may or may not be intended).
"Showing signs of" =/= "diagnosed with". Unless a doctor said "this is autism", it's not. But thn, the reason you do woo like you do is because you don't trust doctors anyway.
So stop using current medicinal terminology and call it "demons" or "misaligned crystals" or tainted auras or whatever you idiots call it
I cured 100 people of HIV by having them ride up and down in crowded elevators for 10 straight hours.
The skeptics will dismiss this experience as anecdotal; but then they would, wouldn't they!
She found homeopathy
Years ago I was going out with a girl who was into homeopathy. So, one day I gave her a homeopathic gold necklace with matching earrings. The gold was so thin, you couldn't see or feel it.
She didn't think it was funny. ;-)
Sounds more Conspiracy Theory to me!
As someone who struggled with actual asberger's (Very similar condition, sometimes referred to as a mild form of autism) I can say that two years would be pretty small time period to 'adjust' to normal life.
I'm functional and mostly treated, but between general social phobia due to being unable to know if I'm doing something herp derp or not, my inability to read reactions, and lack of volume control still frustrates me in non-Internet based communication.
Though realistically, 3 years old is way early to truely be autistic. The 'sign' was probably just having difficulty with speaking or something similar. Since most mild forms have to do with socialization, you don't really know that well until they start to interact heavily with others and really show signs of not being able to learn interactions normally. I was actually thought to be ADHD until I was at least six when it was clear I had no attention disorder, I was obsessive, but had huge problems with people (Which ADHD usually doesn't have.). Psychological diagnosis is usually a long and intensive process if there's multiple overlaps.
"The skeptics will dismiss this experience as anacdotal; but then they would, wouldn't they!"
and they'd be right, wouldn't they INAPPROPRIATE PUNCTUATION
Homeopathic medicine is about as safe and effective as drinking a class of purified water. Because that's what it is. Seriously, the idea behind homeopathic medicine is what you'd get with someone who holds only the faintest idea of how vaccinations work, then applied it to every disease known to man, only that person choose to believe that diseases weren't caused by infectious agents, but by toxins. So they believe that the only way to cure a disease is to fight it with the same toxin they believe caused it. Of course injecting people with toxins to fight diseases sounds ludicrously dangerous, so they dilute the toxins in water to a ratio of 1 part to 1 novemdecilian (that's a 1 with sixty zeros). That means that it's statistically unlike that the "medicine" could even contain one single molecule of the supposed cure.
In conclusion: YOU CAN'T FUCKING CURE AUTISM WITH DISTILLED DRINKING WATER!
@checkmate : Well played.
Homeopathy harms people in direct proportion to how much it makes them avoid conventional treatments - which are conventional because they are the most cost-effective treatments that we have .
In other words: Homeopathy kills.
I find the concept that Homeopathy is as safe as drinking water to be flawed. Homeopathic medicines can still cause problems and harm. While they have been scientifically proven to not work, they have also not been scientifically proven to not cause harm.
Homeopathy is as dangerous as medical negligence as well as taking random drugs.
As long as you have clean water, homeopathy is very safe, yes (in an of itself, that is; refusing to use real medicine can still cause harm, of course).
It's "anacdotal" until you have presented him for testing, before and after he began drinking water instead of medicine.
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