• tal@lemmy.today
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    and no more coverage for homeopathy.

    Oh no.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

    Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific[a] system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians,[5] believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or “like cures like”.[6]

    Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product.[7] Between each dilution homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent “remember” the original substance after its removal. Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease.[8] All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology contradicts homeopathy.[b] Homeopathic remedies are typically biochemically inert, and have no effect on any known disease.[9][17][18] Homeopathy’s theory of disease, centered around principles Hahnemann termed miasms, is inconsistent with subsequent identification of viruses and bacteria as causes of disease. Clinical trials have been conducted and generally demonstrated no objective effect from homeopathic preparations.[19][20][21]: 206 [22] The fundamental implausibility of homeopathy as well as a lack of demonstrable effectiveness has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud.[2][23][24]

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      The amount they spent on homeopathy wasn’t super large, actually, but it’s still welcome to see it getting kicked out. Until now it had been grandfathered past the requirement for medicine to have proven effectiveness on grounds of cultural inertia.

      Mind you, I would’ve preferred it getting dropped due to sufficient public pushback against its special treatment and not as a cost-saving measure. But hey, I’ll take it.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        12 days ago

        Homeopathy

        Chiropractic

        Osteopathy

        Therapeutic touch

        The list of fake medicine goes on and on. See YouTube.

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      Prescribing what is in effect a placebo to patients that would otherwise insist on getting some other type of medication despite unclear diagnosis is probably cheaper and potentially more healthy 🤷

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        12 days ago

        Second opinions for surgery is just a good idea.

        See the Florida doctor this week who accidentally removed a liver.

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      I pay my homeopathic doctor with a scoop of water out of my swimming pool which has a $100 bill soaking in it.