5 years ago

S1E10 - Homeopathy - how pseudoscience kills

A deadly fraud

Thanks for listening. You’re the reason I do this.

In Episode 10 we take a good close look into homeopathy. What we see is not pretty.

Here are the resources that I refer to in the podcast:

This Dr. Stephen Barrett’s website, Quackwatch – if you have never visited, you are missing out on a powerful and important voice in medical skepticism! https://www.quackwatch.org/index.html

This Dr. Barrett’s article on the subject of homeopathy – it is solid gold. https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html

Here is the Merseyside Skeptics Society – an inspiring organization, and arch-enemy of British homeopathy. This is one place to find Michael Marshall (Marsh) and the home some really awesome skeptical podcasts (“Skeptics with a K”, “Re Reasonable”, and “inKredulous”) http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk

This is a link to one of the British Homeopathic Association publications referenced in the podcast. Read with care, it’ll give you a bad headache. https://www.britishhomeopathic.org/evidence/the-evidence-for-homeopathy/

This was one of my sources for tracking down the “evidence” for homeopathy. You should read a few of the articles if you want to get a feel for the kind of evidence homeopathy is using. https://homeopathyusa.org/uploads/Homeopathy-Research-Evidence-Base-11-15-2018.pdf

This is one of the articles covering the death of young Francesco Bonifazi https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/belief-in-homeopathy-results-in-the-death-of-a-7-year-old-italian-child/

I didn’t use this story from Phil Plait, but it is worth reading. Another sad story that didn’t have to happen. https://slate.com/technology/2009/06/homeopathy-kills.html

If you want the complete list of every piece of homeopathic research that I reviewed, shoot me your email address and I’ll send it to you.

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