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[Julian]

Hartwig Tegeler, ein "MDR KULTUR-Filmkritiker", stümpert benausenmäßig über eine DVD. Tegeler mag vielleicht über Spielfilme Blödsinn labern. Aber auf dem Fachgebiet der Medizin sollte er seine Schnauze halten. Was sich Tegeler erlaubt, ist der Gipfel der Frechheit. Daß sein Unsinn gesendet wurde und auch online gestellt wurde, ist ein Armutszeugnis der Qualitätskontrolle des MDR. Der MDR gehört übrigens zum Öffentlich-Rechtlichen Rundfunk, jener Monstrosität, für die die Bürger jedes Jahr zwangsweise 8 Milliarden Euro zahlen.


https://www.mdr.de/kultur/homoeopathie-magic-pills-dvd-100.html

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MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK

MDR Kultur
Standort: MDR.DE MDR KULTUR

DVD-Tipp: Doku "Magic Pills" Homöopathie – Wunder oder Wissenschaft?

Gibt es wirklich Argumente für oder gegen die Homöopathie?
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Nein, es gibt keinen einzigen Grund für Homöopathie. Homöopathie ist lebensgefährllicher Betrug und gehört ausgelöscht.


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Oder mündet die Frage ohne Umwege in einen Glaubenskrieg?
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Es geht um Medizin. Da zählen einzig und allein beweisbare Tatsachen. Wer meint, daß Medizin eine Glaubensfrage sei, gehört in die Irrenanstalt.



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Die Auseinandersetzung um diese Alternativmedizin findet in der Regel auf polemischer Ebene statt.
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Wie man sieht. Tegeler ist eifrig dabei, horrenden Mist als Journalismus auszugeben. Und das auf Kosten der Bürger.


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Die Homöopathin und Filmemacherin Ananda More hat mit ihrer Doku "Magic Pills: Homöopathie – Wunder oder Wissenschaft?" den Versuch unternommen, die Diskussion nüchtern und sachlich zu führen.
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Da ist überhaupt nichts nüchtern!

Aus der Beschreibung der Film-DVD bei einem der Händler:

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Allgemein
Artikel Name:    Magic Pills, 1 DVD
Genre:    Dokumentation
Produkt Typ:    DVD
Sprachen:    de
Dauer:    88:00
Empfohlenes Alter:    Freigegeben ohne Altersbeschränkung
Beschreibung
Beschreibung

Technische Angaben: Sprache / Ton: Deutsch DD 2.0 Bildformat: 16:9 Untertitel: keine
Beschreibung

Die renommierte kanadische Homöopathin Ananda More wurde Opfer einer aggressiven Negativkampagne mit dem Ziel, Homöopathie als Aberglauben zu brandmarken. So musste sie erleben, wie ihre eigenen Interview-Aussagen in den Medien absichtlich verfälscht wiedergegeben wurden, um sie beruflich zu diskreditieren. Doch Ananda More kapitulierte nicht. Stattdessen beschloss sie, den Gegenbeweis anzutreten. Sie reiste kreuz und quer durch die Welt und traf sich mit Wissenschaftlern, Therapeuten und Patienten. Ihr Ziel: Herauszufinden, ob Homöopathie wissenschaftlich fundiert und wirksam ist. Oder handelt es sich lediglich um ein perfektes Placebo, das Millionen Menschen täuscht und vielleicht sogar Leben gefährdet? Über die Erfahrungen ihrer Reise hat sie einen Film gedreht: MAGIC PILLS offenbart dem Zuschauer neue und faszinierende Einblicke in die Welt der Homöopathie. Eine eindrucksvolle und tiefgründige Dokumentation über Mythos, Hintergründe und Tatsachen dieser viel diskutierten, alternativen Heilmethode. Ein Film für Interessierte, Patienten und Therapeuten gleichermaßen.
Mitwirkende

    Director: Ananda More
    Actor: Jeremy Sherr
    Actor: Dr. Pratip Banerji
    Actor: Camilla Sherr
    Actor: Ananda More
    Actor: Beth Landau Halpern
    Actor: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
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1. Es ist keine Dokumentation, sondern demagogischer Müll.

2.  Jeremy Sherr und Camilla Sherr sind Homöopathen übelster Sorte. Das TG-1 hat bereits Material über sie.

3. Banerji ist ein Homöopath übelster Sorte. Das TG-1 hat bereits Material über ihn.

4. Ananda More ist Homöopathin, und wie der Film zeigt, eine üble Demagogin.

5. Beth Landau Halpern ist eine üble Homöopathin und Impfgegnerin. Orac/David Gorski hat über sie geschrieben:

https://respectfulinsolence.com/tag/beth-landau-halpern/

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On teaching pseudoscientific controversies in universities…
Orac August 4, 2015

About a month ago, a number of news stories were published reporting that the University of Toronto had offered a course in alternative medicine taught by a homeopath named Beth Laundau-Halpern that presented a segment that was clearly highly biased towards antivaccine pseudoscience. It was worse than that, though, because this homeopathy just happened to be married to a dean at the university named Rick Halpern. The whole thing blew up into an embarrassing fiasco that demanded a response from the University. Unfortunately, this came in the form of a weaselly report, in which Vivek Goel, Vice-President Research and Innovation, …
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Read More:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/08/04/on-teaching-pseudoscientific-controversies-in-universities/ 

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Integrative Oncology Scholars Program
Quackademia at the University of Toronto: Antivaccine pseudoscience taught by a homeopath is “not unbalanced”
Orac July 7, 2015

Aside from deconstructing the misinformation and pseudoscience of the antivaccine movement, another of the top three or so topics I routinely discuss here is the infiltration of pseudoscience into medicine. In particular, I’ve found and discussed more examples than I can possibly remember of what I like to call quackademic medicine, defined as the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine. This quackery mainly insinuates its way into medical schools and academic medical centers through the emerging specialty known as “integrative medicine,” which used to be called “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM). What “integrative medicine” involves is the integration of prescientific …
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Read More:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/07/07/quackademia-at-the-university-of-toronto-antivaccine-pseudoscience-taught-by-a-homeopath-is-not-unbalanced/


6. Dr. Joe Schwarcz ist ein Stümper und hat keine Ahnung von Homöopathie.



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von Hartwig Tegeler, MDR KULTUR-Filmkritiker
Globuli
Globuli oder "Glaubuli" – über homöopathische Arznei wütet ein Glaubenskrieg Bildrechte: imago/Christian Ohde
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Das ist gelogen. Es geht nicht um Glauben, sondern um beweisbare Tatsachen. Fakt ist, daß die Homöopathen lügen und fälschen.


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Die Fronten verlaufen in der Regel so. Skeptiker der Homöopathie sagen, wie der Mediziner Joseph Schwarcz: "Homöopathie ist eine ganz spezielle Disziplin. Ich hasse es, sie einen Zweig der Medizin zu nennen, da ich nicht glaube, dass sie irgendeine medizinische Qualität hat."
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Wie gesagt: Schwarcz ist ein Stümper. Obwohl ihm von fachkundiger Seite die Fakten erklärt wurden, ist er nach wie vor nicht bereit, sie zu akzeptieren.


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Die kanadische Filmemacherin Ananda More, Opfer einer gegen Homöopathie und ihre Tätigkeit gerichteten Negativkampagne,
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Ananda More ist kein Opfer, sondern eine Täterin. Wenn einem gesundheitsgefährlichen Täter wie ihr der Wind der Kritik ins Gesicht bläst, ist das nur richtig. Das Wort "Negativkampagne" ist Demagogie.


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versucht in ihrem Film "Magic Pills" das unmöglich Scheinende: den Gegenbeweis anzutreten.
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Beweisen kann man nur mit Tatsachen. Aber Homöopathen haben keine.


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Dass das in einem Dokumentarfilm natürlich nicht gelingen kann, liegt auf der Hand, aber auch hier gilt, dass "der Weg das Ziel" ist.
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Das ist dummes Zeug.



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Kurzum: "Magic Pills" ist eine spannende, äußerst komplexe Reise durch die Welt, auf der Filmemacherin More Wissenschaftler, Therapeuten und Patienten trifft, um herauszufinden, ob Homöopathie wirksam ist oder lediglich ein perfektes Placebo, das Millionen Menschen täuscht und vielleicht sogar Leben gefährdet.
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Da ist überhaupt nichts "spannend". Es ist eine Anhäufung von Lügen und Verdrehungen. Und "Wissenschaftler"? Homöopathie kennt keine Wissenschaft. Homöopathie ist Betrug.




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Erfolge in der Dritten Welt

Station Eins der Reise: Afrika. Der Mediziner Jeremy Sherr behandelt viele Patienten, die keinen Zugang zu einer schulmedizinischen Aids-Therapie haben, mit Homöopathie.
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Dafür sollte man Sherr und seine Komplizen lebenslänglich in den Knast stecken.


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Die Daten seiner erfolgreichen Therapie listet Ananda More in "Magic Pills" auf.
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Da ist überhaupt nichts erfolgreich! Homöopathie ist völlig wertloser Müll.


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Dann Indien, dann Kuba: Dort tritt nach der tropischen Regenzeit und den Überflutungen des Landes durch Hurrikans Leptospirose auf, die Gelbsucht und Nierenversagen verursacht und gar tödlich enden kann. Nach einigen der stärksten Wirbelstürme in der Geschichte Kubas im Jahre 2008 stiegen die Leptospirose-Fälle um 27 Prozent auf der Insel. Außer in den drei Provinzen, in denen homöopathisch interveniert worden war. An diesen Orten sank die Infektionsrate und blieb weit unter historischem Niveau.
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Das ist gelogen.

Broussalian ist einer der 4 Homöopathen, die nach Liberia flogen, um dort Ebola mit Homöopathie zu heilen. Das TG-1 hat in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Kritikern die Sache auffliegen lassen:

Homöopathen ohne Grenzen gehen nach Liberia und Sierra Leone!
http://www.transgallaxys.com/~kanzlerzwo/index.php?topic=8275.0

Dabei stellte sich heraus, daß Broussailian auch früher schon erheblich gepfuscht und die Bevölkerung belogen hat.

In Forum von Broussalian ist dieser Link zu Kuba:

http://www.homeopathyeurope.org/media/news/stunning-cuban-experiences-on-leptospirosis

Der Link funktioniert heute nicht mehr. Aber im Webarchive ist noch eine Kopie.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120421031236/http://www.homeopathyeurope.org/media/news/stunning-cuban-experiences-on-leptospirosis

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 Stunning Cuban experiences on leptospirosis
An unprecedented research study has been done using homeopathic prophylaxis in Cuba on 2.4 million people to prevent the usual leptospirosis outbreak after tropical flooding. Only 10 cases were reported instead of the usual several thousand cases of leptospirosis after use of the homeopathic nosode.

Stunning Cuban experiences on leptospirosis

Dr Concepción Campa Huergo

On 10-12 December 2008 at the ‘Nosodes 2008’ conference in Havana (Cuba) the director-general of the Finlay Institute, an advocate of homeopathy herself, Dr. Concepción Campa Huergo, gave a presentation about controlling the local epidemic disease of leptospirosis by using a Leptospira nosode.

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by the spirochaete Leptospira transmitted to humans from rats. In humans it may cause a wide range of symptoms including high fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, vomiting, jaundice, red eyes, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or a rash. If the disease is not treated, the patient could develop kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure, and respiratory distress. Cuba goes through a yearly cycle of Leptospirosis epidemic, especially after the hurricanes flood the countryside and water pollution reaches its height. Many people are left homeless, flooded out and under the stress of disaster situation.

A part of the Ministry of Public Health, the Finlay Institute is the Cuban research institute. It has WHO qualified facilities, produces allopathic vaccinations and acts as supporting institution for research, production and development of high quality homeopathic products. Since Cuba is outcast by the USA government, the Cubans have come to depend on themselves for the production of medicines, health care programs, etc. And since they have no pharmaceutical multi-nationals to stop them, they were able to conduct the leptospirosis project on a massive scale unknown in the history of homeopathy.

On October November 2007, three provinces of the eastern region of Cuba were affected by heavy rainfalls causing floods of big areas and damage to sanitary and health systems. The risk of leptospirosis infection raised extremely dangerous levels with about 2 million people exposed to potentially contaminated water.

Considering this situation, the Finlay Institute prepared a leptospira nosode 200 CH using 4 circulating strains and following international quality standards. A multidisciplinary team travelled to the affected regions to conduct the massive administration of the nosode. Coordinated action with public health system infrastructures allowed the administration of a preventive treatment consisting in two doses (7- 9 days apart) of the nosode to about 2,4 million people (4,8 million of doses). The coverage of the intervention rose up to 95% percent of total population of the three provinces at risk. Another dose, at a higher potency (10M), was given after the hurricane Ike hit the island.

The epidemiology surveillance after the intervention showed a dramatic decrease of morbidity two weeks after and a reduction to zero mortality of hospitalized patients. The number of confirmed leptospirosis cases remained at low levels and below the expected levels according with the trends and rain regimens. The usual expectancy of infection even with allopathic vaccination would have been around a few thousand, with some deaths included.

The costs of the leptospirosis project were US$ 200,000, whereas the costs of ‘normal’ vaccination, only for the most at-risk populations, ie children, pregnant women, and the elderly, are about US$3,000,000.

What is remarkable is their application to such a large population, and its dramatic success, with full scientific verification. This experience could be extended to other diseases and other countries. The Finlay Institute is offering their facilities and specialists to spread this alternative to all regions needing emergent alternatives for epidemic control and prevention.

More information can be found at the website of the Finlay Institute.
http://www.finlay.sld.cu/nosodes/en/ProgramaNOSODES2008Eng.pdf
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Das ist ist eine unverschämte Lüge!

Beim "Finlay-Institut" gibt es ein PDF, in dem ein Teil sich mit den Vorgängen auf Kuba beschäftigt. Wie man gleich sehen wird, ist alles eine verfluchte Lüge:

http://www.finlay.sld.cu/nosodes/en/ProgramaNOSODES2008Eng.pdf

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Homeoprphylaxis: Cuban Experiences on Leptospirosis
Thursday, 11, December,
Homeoprofilaxis: Experiencias cubanas en Leptospirosis
2008 / Jueves 11, Diciembre, 2008
Dr. Concepción Campa, Dr. Luis E. Varela, Dr. Esperanza Gilling, MCs. Rolando Fernández, Tec.
Bárbara Ordaz, Dr. Gustavo Bracho, Dr. Luis García, Dr. Jorge Menéndez, Lic. Natalia Marzoa, Dr.
Rubén Martínez.

Despite, the Finlay Institute is a centre dedicated to development and production of vaccines; we also bring ours WHO qualified facilities for all homeopaths and homeopathic medicine. The Finlay Institute acts as supporting institution for research, production and development of high quality homeopathic products. However, according with the social objective addressing prevention of infectious diseases, we are focused on homeo prophylaxis as strategy to attenuate the impact of preventable diseases on developing world, the ones that need it the most.

Thus, development and evaluation of nosodes, appears to be our main approach to fill up the breakthrough on current conventional strategies based on vaccination. Similarly with vaccination interventions, massive applications of prophylactic nosodes give rise to a greater impact on population health compared with individualized therapies. In addition, the easy administration and low economics resources needed, become this alternative really suitable and accessible for developing countries and almost the best for emergency situations comprising epidemic outbreaks and natural disasters. The Cuban experiences of massively administrated nosodes supports it use as promising solution to confront epidemiological dangerous situations.

On October November 2007, three provinces of the eastern region of Cuba were affected by strong rainfalls causing floods of big areas and several damages to sanitary and health systems. The risk of leptospirosis infection raised extremely dangerous levels with about 2 million of peoples exposed to potentially contaminated water.

Considering this situation, the Finlay Institute prepared a leptospira nosode 200 CH using 4 circulating strains and following international quality standards. A multidisciplinary team travelled to the affected regions to conduct the massive administration of the nosode. Coordinated action with public health system infrastructures allowed the administration of a preventive treatment consisting in two doses (7 9 days apart) of the nosode to about 2,4 million of people (4,8 million of doses). The coverage of the intervention rose up to 95% percent of total population of the three provinces at risk.

The epidemiology surveillance after the intervention showed a dramatic decrease of morbidity two weeks after and a reduction to cero of mortality of hospitalized patient. The number of confirmed leptospirosis cases remains at low levels and bellow the expected levels according with the trends and rain regimens.

A reinforcing application was given after the hit of the hurricane IKE but using the nosode diluted up to 10 MC. Strict epidemiologic surveillance is carried out on this provinces. Up to date result will be presented. The results supported the design of new strategies for leptospirosis control. This experience could be extended to other diseases and other countries. The Finlay Institute is offering our facilities and specialists to spread this alternative to all regions needing emergent alternatives for epidemic control and prevention.
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Lüge: "Homeoprphylaxis: Cuban Experiences on Leptospirosis"

Tatsache: Es gibt keine homöopathische Prophylaxe. Homöopathie ist dazu grundsätzlich nicht in der Lage. Wer etwas anderes behauptet, ist entweder ein Vollidiot oder ein Lügner, der über Leichen geht. Homöopathie kann einzig und allein an bereits aufgetretenen Symptomen versuchen, mittels Repertorium für jeden einzelnen Kranken das für ihn spezifische geeignete homöopathische Mittel zu finden. Ohne aufgetretene Symptome ist das nicht möglich! Also muß die Krankheit bei jedem einzelnen Kranken bereits ausgebrochen sein. Erst dann kann mittels Repertorium das Mittel gesucht werden. Anders geht es nicht! Wer etwas anderes behauptet, ist entweder ein Vollidiot oder ein Lügner, der über Leichen geht.

Was immer die da auf Kuba gemacht haben, die Beschreibung vom Finlay-Institut ist eine Lüge, weil sie wesentliche Fakten verschweigt. 


Weiter beim MDR:

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Szenenbild 'Magic Pill': Mädchen bekommt Globuli
Eine indische Patientin – Szene aus dem Film "Magic Pills" Bildrechte: Ananda More

Die Wissenschaftler des kubanischen Finlay-Instituts – selber keine Homöopathen – reichten diese Erkenntnisse bei vier medizinischen Fachzeitschriften ein. Zu ihrer Überraschung wiesen alle Journale ihre Arbeit zurück, ohne wissenschaftliche Begründung.
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Wie bitte!? Keine Homöopathen!?

Dies ist das Programm des "Internationales Treffen über Homöoprophylaxe, homöopathische Immunisierung und Nosoden gegen Epidemien":

http://www.finlay.sld.cu/nosodes/en/ProgramaNOSODES2008Eng.pdf

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INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON HOMEOPROPHYLAXIS , HOMEOPATHIC IMMUNIZATION AND NOSODES AGAINST EPIDEMICS

10-12, DECEMBER / DICIEMBRE, 2008
HAVANA CONVENTION CENTER
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mehr:
Über ein homöopathisches Betrugsmanöver auf Kuba
http://www.transgallaxys.com/~kanzlerzwo/index.php?topic=10521.0

Ein internationaler Betrug an der Homöopathie. Hahnemann würde sich im Grabe umdrehen.



Tegeler vom MDR:

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Von den Vorbehalten gegenüber homöopathischen Themen berichtet auch Peter Fisher, inzwischen verstorbener Leibarzt der englischen Königin:

    Vor 20 oder 30 Jahren publizierte ich im 'British Medical Journal'. Heute geht das nicht mehr. Sie haben entschieden, dass die Homöopathie wirkungslos ist und daher ausgegrenzt werden muss.
    Peter Fisher, ehemaliger Arzt von Königin Elisabeth II.
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Völlig richtig. Homöopathie ist Müll und gehört verboten!


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In den USA wird die Homöopathie, so beschreibt es Filmemacherin Ananda More, heftig verteufelt; in Europa ist sie sehr unterschiedlich etabliert.
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Ja, viele Europäer sind strunzdumm.


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Der Glaubensstreit um sie interessiert Jeremy Sherr, der in Afrika Aids-Kranke behandelt, wenig.
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Das ist gelogen. Es ist kein Glaubensstreit, sondern es geht ausschließlich um beweisbare Tatsachen. Homöopathie ist nichts als ein Haufen Lügen.


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Der Homöopath ist Pragmatiker, kein Ideologe, wie manch anderer Homöopath und manch Gegner der Medizin der kleinen Kügelchen:

    Es gibt keine Definition einer Heilung. Nirgendwo steht so etwas geschrieben.
    Jeremy Sherr, Homöopath
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Sherr ist ein gemeingefährlicher Lügner.


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"Und es interessiert mich auch nicht. Wir sind nicht hier, um zu behaupten, wir heilen Aids. Oder wir heilen Aids nicht. Oder irgend so etwas. Wir sind hier, weil wir sagen, Homöopathie kann helfen.", so Sherr weiter.
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Sherr lügt. Homöopathie hat noch nie geholfen. Homöopathie ist nichts als Lüge und Betrug.


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Unparteiische Studien fehlen
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Was heißt "unparteisch"? Es geht um BEWEISBARE TATSACHEN. Aber Homöopathen haben keine!


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Globuli 4 min
"Magic Pills": die Filmkritik zum Hören

"Magic Pills" führt die seit 200 Jahren tobende Diskussion um die Homöopathie im aktuellen Gewand vor. Und das ist durchaus nicht als Kritik gemeint, im Gegenteil.
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Das ist Blödsinn und lenkt schon wieder von der Tatsache ab, daß Homöopathie nichts als Lüge und Betrug ist.


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Und es tut der Doku gut, die Statements des Homöopathie-Gegners Joseph Schwarcz bis zum Ende des Films immer wieder gegen die Äußerungen der Homöopathen zu schneiden.
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Wie man alleine an diesem Satz sieht: Schwarcz ist ein Stümper. Hätte Schwarcz wirklich etwas gegen Homöopathie in der Hand und hätte er es rhetorisch richtig vorgebracht, würde Tegeler nicht so einen Müll von sich geben. Es sei denn, daß Tegeler ganz bewußt lügt.


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Aber was könnte den Dauerstreit lösen?
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Homöopathie bei Höchststrafe verbieten. Einfach, schnell und absolut zuverlässig. Produktion und Anwendung der Mittel verbieten. Schon ist der Spuk vorbei.


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1997 gab der Medizin-Professor Edzard Ernst im Deutschen Ärzteblatt eine Antwort, die immer noch gilt: "Was wir brauchen", schrieb Edzard Ernst damals, "sind […] zwei bis drei adäquat angelegte und von Unparteiischen durchgeführten Studien zum Wirkungsnachweis."
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Edzard Ernst hat auch keine Ahnung von Homöopathie. Studien über Homöopathie sind Teil des Betrugs.


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Denn ein Argument sollte auch heute noch zählen: Solange große Teile der Bevölkerung – also Patienten, die Heilung suchen – die Homöopathie anwenden, und keiner würde bezweifeln, dass sie das tun, solange scheint es notwenig, die Fragen nach dem Nutzen-Risiko-Verhältnis fundiert zu beantworten.
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Was ist denn das für ein Mist? Die Kranken werden von der Homöopathiemafia nach Strich und Faden belogen. Diese Lügen müssen unterbunden werden.


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Joseph Schwarcz' Argument in Ananda Mores spannender Doku "Magic Pills", man müsse ja nun nicht alles testen, was es gibt, wirkt da nur zynisch und arrogant.
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In diesem Punkt hat Schwarcz ausnahmsweise recht. Tegeler erzählt Mist.


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[Angaben zum Film
"Magic Pills: Homöopathie - Wunder oder Wissenschaft?"
Phosphorus Films
Regie: Ananda More
Spielzeit: 88 Minuten

Dieses Thema im Programm:
MDR KULTUR - Das Radio | 04. Februar 2019 | 12:40 Uhr
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Schund auf Kosten der Bürger. Noch dazu lebensgefährlicher Schund.

Macht den Sender dicht!

[Zahnfee]

Ayu?

[Ayumi]

+1 !

[Julian]

Was ist in Kuba wirklich passiert?

In diesem Blog geht jemand sehr gut auf die Einzelheiten ein:

https://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/much-ado-about-nothing/

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What could have caused the reported effect?

For all the weaknesses in the trial design, it’s clear that something happened to reduce the incidence of Leptospirosis in the Intervention Region (IR).  If it wasn’t the homeopathic prophylaxis (HP) that caused the reported reduction in Leptospirosis, what might have done?

Non Specific Effects

My favourite candidate for a plausible explanation are non-specific effects; changes caused by the intervention, but not the magic water.  Back in 2004 the IR had the same rate of Leptospirosis infection as the rest of Cuba.  Then something changed.  There seems to have been increasing rainfall – a risk factor for the transmission of the infection to humans.  However, in 2005 the rest of Cuba combined higher rainfall than the IR with a lower (and flat) rate of infection.

Although rainfall and the number of cases seem to correlate reasonably well for the IR, they don’t for the rest of Cuba (See above).  In fact, in 2008 the data from the IR show the poorest correlation with rainfall.  Rather than making the post-homeopathic treatment IR something special, it has just made it more like the rest of Cuba – where rainfall and Leptospirosis cases don’t seem to correlate very well. This can be seen in the simple plot presented below. The analysis, such as it is is simplistic (just fitting a trendline in Excel), but it’s more analysis than is contained in the paper.

The authors briefly discuss other changes in the IR:

    “From 2004 and up to 2007 an increase in the annual incidence of the disease was observed in Cuba, particularly in the IR although there had been no modifications in the strategies for Leptospirosis control. The main cause of this observation is likely to be the implementation of policies promoting agriculture and animal breeding that caused rapid and continuous changes in the size and composition of risk groups, making identification difficult.”

It seems like changes in agricultural practice may have affected the IR, more than the rest of the country.  This seems to have changed who is at risk.  It’s not unreasonable to argue that organizing this study may have facilitated a better identification of those in risk groups.  This would have made the targeted conventional interventions more effective.  So maybe just organizing this trial has helped the interventions that work in the rest of Cuba work in the IR?

A second level of non-specific effect could relate to personal precautions.  As I noted earlier:

    “Prevention requires limiting exposure to freshwater or mud, covering cuts and grazes, washing after any exposure. If this is not possible, then using waterproof gloves and boots is recommended.  Finally, in affected areas, it is important to only drink sealed bottled water or fresh water that has been boiled.”

An army of 5,000 health workers visiting (nearly) everybody twice may well have increased compliance with these precautions.  It should have been unconscionable for health workers to have put a few drops of the elixir under the tongue of each person without reminding them of what they could do to protect themselves.  This level of focus might also have made officials responsible for disease prevention look with more care at these regions.

The authors note, in their discussion of the ethics of this trial:

    “Information about the product and the intervention was provided by local TV, radio programs, newspapers and was also free available through information desks spread over the IR.”

So there was a comprehensive publicity campaign as well.  Again, I would argue that putting this disease at the forefront of people’s minds is likely to increase compliance with personal protective measures.

This would explain why the IR has ended up recovering to its 2004 position and is no better than Cuba as a whole.
Proper medicines muddy the waters

Next on my list is the use of conventional prevention measures.  It’s made absolutely clear in the paper that  vaccination and preventative use of Doxicycline, an antibiotic (“chemoprophylaxis” ) were routinely deployed in the Intervention Region.

    “The individuals treated with either vaccination or chemoprophylaxis in the IR amounted to about 3% of the population. Individuals within risk groups were vaccinated when identified with two intramuscular doses (6 – 8 weeks apart) of vaxSpiral following manufacture’s instructions […] Chemoprophylaxis was applied mainly for focal treatment and outbreak control to high-risk groups when identified and consisted of a weekly oral dose of Doxicycline 100 mg.”

Although the reported percentage is small, it nevertheless means that 72,143 high-risk individuals in the IR were treated conventionally.  It is quite possible that this could make a significant impact on the number of cases reported for the IR as a whole.  Particularly as Doxicycline was used for, “focal treatment and outbreak control”.  And the paper does demonstrate the impact Doxicycline can have on an outbreak, and the effect that an outbreak can have on the overall results.

    “In week 42 [2008] an outbreak of the disease was reported in a closed population of RC but fortunately was quickly controlled by chemoprophylaxis.”

During this week 116 cases were reported in the the rest of Cuba; by the following week there were around ten. The authors do not state how large this “closed population” was, but the term tends to imply that it’s relatively small. They should really clarify this.

As an aside, this directly contradicts one of the authors’ stated reasons why the homeopathic intervention was the cause.  Discussing the fall in reported cases in the IR during the closing weeks of 2007 they state:

    “This sharp decrease of incidence does not suggest an expected effect of vaccination or chemoprophylaxis considering the time needed to induce a protective immune response by vaccines and the short temporal protection of antibiotics.”

And yet this outbreak was knocked on the head in a week, using conventional measures.

The grand claim that this paper makes for the homeopathic intervention is that it caused the fall in weekly cases of Leptospirosis, from 38 to around four, over a three week period.  However, there are no data or analysis in this paper that could rule out the effect being due to targeted intervention with conventional treatments in high-risk groups.

The authors do make a feeble attempt in their discussion section, as the third reason why the homeopathy must have caused the reductions, “coverage of conventional measurement [sic] of control including vaccination and chemoprophylaxis was similar in both regions since their application followed the current guidelines from MPHC”.  As we have seen, the extent of infections in the IR was much greater, so applying the same protocols should have resulted in more conventional intervention in the IR.

How plausible is this as a possible explanation?  If I have to choose between magic water and actual medicines as an explanation, the magic water loses.  If someone expects me to give the magic water credit, they will need something better than the contents of this paper.

Regression to the mean?

Could there be other potential candidates for the dramatic reduction in cases seen in the IR?  Observing that the regions making up the IR had a problem that appeared to start in 2005 and peaked in 2007 (see Figure 4) could it just simply be that this is a disease with variable incidence and that a strong peak will likely be followed by a fall?  In other words, could the homeopaths have struck lucky, intervening at a peak and benefitting from regression to the mean?

Maybe not the strongest candidate for an explanation, but more plausible than magic water, certainly.

More research required?

The paper ends, as most do, with a call for more research.  Is this reasonable?  No – effective prophylaxis measures are available.  Cuba has an effective vaccine.  There is absolutely nothing in the homeopathic ‘vaccine’.  It would be unethical to divert resources to magic alcoholic water.


Five unassailable reasons?

According to the editorial by Roniger and Jacobs (2010), “Other possible explanations for these findings were explored by the authors but cannot explain the results.”  Actually, the authors did the inverse: providing reasons to support their conclusion that the homeopathic intervention caused the reduction in Leptospirosis.  I think that this says more about the authors  pre-existing commitment to homeopathy than the lack of other, more plausible, explanations.

The five reasons the authors declare to demonstrate that they must be right are:

    “… the risks for Leptospirosis infection are present all across the country.”

Yet, from 2005 – 2007 , the rest of Cuba did much better than the regions included in the IR without resorting to homeopathy.  Even after the improvements in the IR, the level of Leptospirosis is no better than in the rest of Cuba.

    “… more risk in IR than RC …”

And there was also more scope for improvement.  In 2004 the IR had the same level of Leptospirosis as the rest of Cuba.  The levels in the IR returned to their 2004 level, pretty similar to the rest of Cuba. Could there have been an improvement in the implementation of the conventional controls?

    “… coverage of conventional measurement [sic] of control including vaccination and chemoprophylaxis was similar in both regions since their application followed the current guidelines from MPHC.”

Yet more Leptospirosis in the IR should have driven more conventional intervention, if the same rules were used.

    “… the extent of vaccination and HP was very different in the IR. The HP intervention covered over 96% of the target population while the coverage of vaccination was limited to 0.6% because of the reduced stockpile of the vaccine vaxSpiral at that time.”

The use of the vaccine, if the authors are to be believed, was targeted at high risk groups.  This is a bit of a red herring though. As the 2008 data from the rest of Cuba shows, an outbreak can be dealt with by targeted conventional intervention. Also an outbreak in a “closed community” can dominate the overall number of infections, even in the much larger RC region.  Finally, the bulk of the initial decrease in cases in the IR seems to have occured, adjusting for the typical incubation period, when less than 40% of the population had been covered.  Anyway, what’s the relevance of giving 2.3 million people ten drops of 30% alcohol in water?

    “…. the reduction in the number of confirmed cases in IR occurred within 2 weeks but was sustained for the next 57 weeks. This sharp decrease of incidence does not suggest an expected effect of vaccination or chemoprophylaxis considering the time needed to induce a protective immune response by vaccines and the short temporal protection of antibiotics. In fact, because of the vaccination schedule of vaxSpiral, the immunization of newly exposed individuals was finished in a time frame several weeks after the effects observed at IR. The reduction of confirmed cases on IR was coincident with the achievement of 70% of coverage of HP treatment.”

Yet in 2008 chemoprophylaxis (antibiotics) controlled an outbreak in the rest of Cuba in about a week.  This same strategy should have been followed in the IR if the MPHC guidelines were being followed.  Also, as noted above, claiming coincidence between the reduction in cases and 70% homeoprophylaxis (HP) coverage appears to be ignoring both the incubation period and the fact that the bulk of the reduction occured two weeks after the start (week 47) of the campaign.

So, why couldn’t it have been the homeopathy?  Because there were no inactivated bacteria in the homeopathic preparation.  It would have been a miracle if someone has ingested a single dead bug.  They had all been washed away.

If not the homeopathy, then what caused the change?  No one can know for sure, but here are some massively more plausible explanations:

    Improved implementation of conventional controls (including change in behaviour of individuals).
    Conventional antibiotic intervention.
    Regression to the mean

Finally, the accompanying editorial seeks to support a delusional and dangerous agenda with this flawed paper.


A dangerous agenda

It’s perhaps not that surprising as the second author, Jennifer Jacobs has prior form on homeopathic interventions for dangerous diseases.  She was involved in an ethically dubious, unsuccessful trial treating chronic diarrhea in children in Honduras (Jacobs et al, 2006).  This was a follow-up to a similar trial conducted in Nicaragua, that achieved marginal statistical significance but was clinically irrelevant (Jacobs et al, 1994)‡ ‡.

Now they want to move on to other dangerous things …

    “However, research could be hindered by perceived competition with conventional vaccines. Therefore other common infections with significant morbidity and/or mortality lacking effective and/or feasible conventional treatment, such as dengue fever, malaria, and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections should be targeted first. In spite of our lack of theoretical understanding of homeoprophylaxis, ethical approval of future studies will be facilitated by this impressive study by our Cuban colleagues.”

This is a most dangerous proposal.  Dengue fever may not have a specific treatment, but a keen focus on vector control is vital and should not be diluted by homeopathic distractions.  Homeopathic delusions already exist about preventing and treating this disease, it is dangerous to indulge them further.

Effective treatments and control methods do exist for malaria (WHO, 2010).  The editorial is not telling the truth.  Again, vector control and personal protection are vital.  There is no possible role, or ethical justification, for homeopathy in protecting people from this disease.  Delusional homeopaths are already dabbling in Africa, putting lives at risk.  Treating antibiotic resistant infections with magic water are unconscionable.  There is no reason to suppose that homeopathy can be of any benefit.  Using it for a life-threatening condition is a very dangerous proposal.

The idea that this trial could provide an ethical justification for this agenda is unfathomable.  It is an uncontrolled, un-randomized, poorly-reported, piece of homeopathic propaganda published in a pseudojournal.

It ignores plausible explanations in favour of the fantastical.  It’s a cracking example of Cargo Cult science.

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An army of 5,000 health workers visiting (nearly) everybody twice may well have increased compliance with these precautions.  It should have been unconscionable for health workers to have put a few drops of the elixir under the tongue of each person without reminding them of what they could do to protect themselves.  This level of focus might also have made officials responsible for disease prevention look with more care at these regions.
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Next on my list is the use of conventional prevention measures.  It’s made absolutely clear in the paper that  vaccination and preventative use of Doxicycline, an antibiotic (“chemoprophylaxis” ) were routinely deployed in the Intervention Region.

    “The individuals treated with either vaccination or chemoprophylaxis in the IR amounted to about 3% of the population. Individuals within risk groups were vaccinated when identified with two intramuscular doses (6 – 8 weeks apart) of vaxSpiral following manufacture’s instructions […] Chemoprophylaxis was applied mainly for focal treatment and outbreak control to high-risk groups when identified and consisted of a weekly oral dose of Doxicycline 100 mg.”

Although the reported percentage is small, it nevertheless means that 72,143 high-risk individuals in the IR were treated conventionally.  It is quite possible that this could make a significant impact on the number of cases reported for the IR as a whole.  Particularly as Doxicycline was used for, “focal treatment and outbreak control”.  And the paper does demonstrate the impact Doxicycline can have on an outbreak, and the effect that an outbreak can have on the overall results.

    “In week 42 [2008] an outbreak of the disease was reported in a closed population of RC but fortunately was quickly controlled by chemoprophylaxis.”
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Es wurden also durchaus Antibiotika eingesetzt! Außerdem wurde geimpft. Den homöopathischen Mumpitz kann man als Teil eines Rituals betrachten, bei dem die 5000 Helfer den Bürgern eingeschärft haben, was sie an Sicherheitsmaßnahmen tun mǘssen. Das ändert die Sachlage radikal.



Dieser Absatz zeigt, was wir schon kennen: den totalen Größenwahn der Homöopathen.

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A dangerous agenda

It’s perhaps not that surprising as the second author, Jennifer Jacobs has prior form on homeopathic interventions for dangerous diseases.  She was involved in an ethically dubious, unsuccessful trial treating chronic diarrhea in children in Honduras (Jacobs et al, 2006).  This was a follow-up to a similar trial conducted in Nicaragua, that achieved marginal statistical significance but was clinically irrelevant (Jacobs et al, 1994)‡ ‡.

Now they want to move on to other dangerous things …

    “However, research could be hindered by perceived competition with conventional vaccines. Therefore other common infections with significant morbidity and/or mortality lacking effective and/or feasible conventional treatment, such as dengue fever, malaria, and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections should be targeted first. In spite of our lack of theoretical understanding of homeoprophylaxis, ethical approval of future studies will be facilitated by this impressive study by our Cuban colleagues.”
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In Liberia und Sierra Leone wollten die berüchtigten Homöopathen ohne moralische Grenzen mehrere Jahre später EBOLA mit Homöopathie heilen. Zum Glück konnten Blogger mit ihrem sehr beherzten Eingreifen die betreffende Klinik und weitere Institutionen rechtzeitig warnen:

Homöopathen ohne Grenzen gehen nach Liberia und Sierra Leone!
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