Free Homeopathic treatment anyone?

Toothsmith

Dr Lockie's website

http://www.drlockie.com/

Interesting quote from Dr Lockie's site

If you wish to use this service, please email [EMAIL="drlockie@drlockie.com"]Dr Lockie[/EMAIL] with your question. Please include your address and a phone number. During the phone call please have your credit card details with you. The call will be timed and a charge of £3.00 sterling per minute will be deducted from your credit card

£180 an hour for a telephone conversation! About dummy pills!!!!!

Point me to the nearest homeopathy course please!!!

Toothsmith

toffeepennys wrote: »

Doctors who practise homeopathy have all qualified in medicine before studying homeopathy.

But only a very small minority of homeopaths are qualified medical doctors.

Doctors who practice homeopathy just want an excuse to give the mad old hypochondriacs
dummy pills.

Just think about it, if it seems to help 20-30% of the real whinging pain-in-the-bottoms who clog up the waiting room with spurious symptoms that they read about on the interweb, and generally make the doctors life a misery - wouldn't you be tempted??

I must admit I have a couple of patients who I would love to pack off to a homeopath, or even just recommend some homeopathic pill or other to (As let's face it - it doesn't make any difference which one as long as you open a big book first, and sound authorative). Unfortunately, I cannot suspend my scientific brain for long enough to convince myself it's ethical.

Need_More_Money_2

Toothsmith wrote: »

Dr Lockie's website

http://www.drlockie.com/

Interesting quote from Dr Lockie's site



£180 an hour for a telephone conversation! About dummy pills!!!!!

Point me to the nearest homeopathy course please!!!

I'm definitely thinking of becoming a part time homeopathic practitioner now;) . Do I even need to go on a course? I can just get some bottles of water and prescribe them at random can't I? I'm gonna be rich!

superscaper

Need_More_Money wrote: »

I can just get some bottles of water and prescribe them at random can't I? I'm gonna be rich!

And because of the number of molecules and the memory effect every bottle you give will have at some point come into contact with the material you're claiming so it's not as if you're being fraudulent. That's the great thing about pseudoscience, you can't be a fake faker. See that recent report into acupuncture? It is beneficial, but they found equally beneficial was "fake" acupuncture where they put the needles in the "wrong places". So set yourself up as an acupuncturist as well as it doesn't seem to matter what you "learn" from an acupuncture course. You'll rake (not sure if that's a pun) it in.

At last, that horrendous first post of toffeepennys on this thread, bringing personal insults into this, has been deleted

Toothsmith

It has just occured to me that if you flush a few bottles of original tincture homeopathic cures down the loo - then in a few years, the whole of the worlds water supply will be a homeopathic remedy for everything, and disease will be a thing of the past!

Chalk me up for a Nobel Prize please!

superscaper

Toothsmith wrote: »

It has just occured to me that if you flush a few bottles of original tincture homeopathic cures down the loo - then in a few years, the whole of the worlds water supply will be a homeopathic remedy for everything, and disease will be a thing of the past!

Chalk me up for a Nobel Prize please!

Of course, why didn't I think of that? It's a logical extrapolation of my theory that NMM's water would be a cure for everything. So far I reckon we could get Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine the Nobel Peace Prize (for the oceans idea) and of course the $1 million Randi prize. Not bad for a couple of days work. This is fun (and none of it's an exaggaration if homeopathy works), what else can we do?

Just looked it up, that would make total prize money so far: $6.6 million!!! I'd say that was worth going for

Need_More_Money_2

superscaper wrote: »

Of course, why didn't I think of that? It's a logical extrapolation of my theory that NMM's water would be a cure for everything.

Now, I wasnt offering to use my water :rotfl: :rotfl:

superscaper

Need_More_Money wrote: »

Now, I wasnt offering to use my water :rotfl: :rotfl:

:rofl: I suppose using my earlier statistic it's all Oliver Cromwell's "water" anyway.

sunshine124

Hi everyone,

I have replied eariler on to this thread and the reason why I stopped is because I knew the topic would get off hand. The whole point of this website is to save money and this thread is kinda going off topic. Where the original thread was helping people to get free homeopathic treatment, its know turning into a public debate. I dont mind people discussing the pros and cons, but I dislike people insulting each other. That is not what this site is for, people have very different opinions on homeopathy and I think that we should just respect each others opinions. As this debate will go on for years.

So maybe people can find a debateable chat room that they can go in (if they want to insult each other that is)

Toothsmith

But it isn't really 'free'.

It's taxpayer funded

Are there not better uses of taxpayer's money, even within the NHS, than paying for pills with nothing in them which achieve results no better than placebos?

I for one would rather have proven treatments better funded, and if people want homeopathy, fine, but pay for the stuff yourself. Or if you want to save money, just take a Smartie.