I suspect one reason average life expectancy was so low in the middle ages was that infant mortality was high and young women died as a result of childbirth. This, of course, does not detract from the argument just adds some explanation.

@@willsumnall3499 All moot points. We still have a high infant death rate. There are still women dying in childbirth. We still have food poverty in large swathes of the planet. It called an average because it's just that, when you look at the fact that there's 8 billion people living today opposed to the less than 1 billion then , the averages play.

No, please don't just "blieve" in science. Get educated enough about it to understand how usefull it is in terms of discovering what our world actually looks like. And that by understanding our world we can also be safer and potentially have better lives.

​@@stauffapthank you very much for this. 'belief' in science shouldn't be a thing. Learn it, understand it, embrace its principles. It makes sense, you don't have to believe it to accept it

@@willsumnall3499You're quite right. If you have a pop wherein 50% die by age 2 and 50% by age 60, AVERAGE life expectancy is 30! Aver life expectanc of 30 doesnt mean everyone keels over at 30!

Yet in France it seems things are slowly moving in a good direction, since the government recently stopped reimbursing homeopathic treatments.

@@DruMusica While this is true, Homeoquackery is in the collective consciousness and unless people are told it’s a sugar pill scam, they won’t find out by themselves and it will continue to be sold. There is also a massive anti big pharma, anti vax…anti reality movement in France who demand equal respect for their nonsense, as sane people enjoy.

French people pride themselves in being non superstitious and dedicated to clear logic, but their addiction to quack medicine like homeopathy absolutely disproves this conceit.

Hopefully, HRH's present medical problem will help to concentrate his mind on what sort of treatment is really most likely to work.

Same here with an incurable autoimmune disease. They just don't get what it is like living with a chronic illness

I was once a Registered General Nurse ( RGN ) and now - at the age of sixty and suffering increasing pain over the last 5 years or so - have been diagnosed by radio imaging as suffering from End Stage Avascular Osteonecrosis, which essentially means that my pelvis and both left and righ hip joints are dead due to a lack of blood supply. "End Stage" meaning it`s as bad as things get - so I was told when I asked ! I began to suffer extreme pain about 4 years ago upon which I consulted my GP. He ordered a blood test which upon assay showed raised blood - uric acid levels. He therefore diagnosed gout and prescribed me various medicines in order to lower the blood - uric acid osmolarity. Since then I have been diagnosed with the said avascular necrosis of my pelvis and both hips. I`ve been fortunate enough to have had my left hip replaced at a private hospital ( but paid for by the NHS - I can`t afford hip replacement surgery ) and have a date upon which I shall have my right hip replacement surgery. After that I shall be asking questions of my Doctor how gout turned into end stage avascular osteonecropathy ! I`m not knocking mechanistic biology nor mechanictic pharmacology. I`m knocking the GP Surgeries that have become Limited Companies.

I've reached 74 now and have suffered ( that's the word!) from arthritis for at least thirty years. I think the biggest problem with is the fact that most people write it off as something their old granny complained of when it rained - how I HATE that one!!! We are all what? 90%+ water - yet a little bit more falling from the sky is responsible for half crippling me? Bog off why don't you! I once attended a whole series of "investigations" run by University College Hospital and here's the first laugh - I was sitting in a room of forty people all with the same appointment time - when "MRS SCROGGINS" was called - an old dear a few seats away, got up and sprinted in as if she was auditioning for U.K.SPORTS - after sitting for more than a few minutes, I had to be very careful how I stood or I'd end up falling down. When I did eventually see a surgeon - he stuck a flipping big needle in each of my swollen knees and let the fluid drain on the floor. As you might imagine - I gasped a bit, to which he quizzed " Oh you can stand that can't you Old Man, big chap like you?" Well, yes Sir, I can but I'm wondering how I'm going to get back to Oxford Circus station etc., etc, to get home "Oh" says he, quite taken aback "you didn't come by ambulance then?" This is the kind of thing I regularly came up against. After a lot of completely useless "consulting" I was put on an injectable drug - Embrel - (very expensive! All praise due to the NHS.) It's about fifty times more controversial than all the Covid antivax nonesense you've ever heard but - for me - it's been FLIPPING MAGIC! Turned the clock back ten years.

Very interesting. I wonder how Embrel works. I'll have to look it up.

Me too!

How the hell is that legal?!

In Australia we even sell homeopathy in pharmacies - it’s made me lose confidence in a pharmacist’s advice. Profit rules, obviously.

Try them! They are most powerful.

I wonder why you Hate it? Some people like using them--you obviously don't. I don't think either work--but to Hate so much that they share a shelf seems a bit like a control issue. Like hating that plant based "meat" shares a shelf with real meat. Silly to actually care about other's choices.

Unless it turned out something in the waters of Lake Michigan itself had a therapeutic effect.

I heard its more diluted than tapwater. Someone sincerely and convincingly recommended homeopathy for my asthmatic son. I'd never heard of it. The waiting room, white coat, consideration and pills carried me on for a short while. I investigated, wondering why this wonderful thing was not widely available, but quickly found it out and dumped it, appalled.

Half an aspirin in the Pacific ocean

to add to that it takes credit for the hard work your own body does.

Clean drinking water and good hygiene standards are probably the most important.

Placebo power of suggestion only. It never works for those who see through it.

No...simple logic should have the same effect.

They'd need to understand basic stats first, and therefore algebra and a bit of geometry.

@@ConontheBinarian Nonsense. If it survived testing, pharma could NOT keep it from the market. As you don't need ANY tests for side effects, it would be dirt cheap medicine. In reality, it has no side effects because it has NO effect.

Unfortunately, 'the algorithm' ensures that only those already on board will watch it.

Why should everyone just because youre bowled over. Z

@@Vrsi123 Dear little chap.

Clean, portable water and proper human waste disposal has a lot to do with it as well

It's not the methodology, it is the entire underlying principles. They just dont work no matter what the "methodology".

Spend a few days in Ashland, Or. everyone there is a naturopath and everyone questions evidence based medicine. Its no different than religion

Yes. What are they afraid of? Actually helping people or themselves heal without the half-poisons they so heavily rely on? The fact that homeopathy has worked on plants, animals and babies is proof enough for me, if the actual physical ailments disappearing in mine and my family’s bodies weren’t enough somehow.

Our family - 4 kids grew up on homeopathy and ayurveda and very little allopathy and we are all a healthy family - they are in their late 20s to early 30s now with great immunity....so far ..so it is a lifestyle for us as we have learned about our bodies, mind and wellness and well-being in a holistic way of living...realizing how profit driven the industry is....and good to be open minded to choices ..so we take personal responsibility for our health and well-being...

@@lalithgunaratne1620 3rd leading cause of death in the US are medical errors. I’m supposed to be insane like them and follow “doctor’s orders”? It’s clear who the fools are and it is unfortunate that it is this way. Their savior and religion is big pharma and their minions yet they are being poisoned by them slowly. Sometimes, very fast.

​@@lalithgunaratne1620ayurveda is different

But how do you know the medicine cured you or that your body managed to fight off whatever you had on its own? Or how do you know an well tested and approved medicine would have done the job better? Personal experience is not evidence. You are a sample size of one in an uncontrolled experiment.

That's nonsense. alternative medicines are NOT regular medicines. "Therapies"? If some medicine of traditional societies worked,it'd become part of rregular medicine. Altternative medicines dont cure. That is much of what they are saying!

COMPLemENTARY. Complimentary is a word meaning an entirely different meaning.

@@Vrsi123 Well, typos happen, especially on a phone text pad. But "a word meaning an entirely different meaning"? Tut tut. That should be "a word WITH an entirely different meaning" or "a word meaning something else entirely" or similar.

This couldnt be any crisper. You can listen to it several times if it's not clear on first listening. Reality can be complicated!. No point in simplifying it so much it means nothing.

Sometimes I listen to these while doing something else like cooking or washing up or other chores. You can just let it run and listen and get on with your day, you don't strictly have to watch and concentrate on the images for an hour.

Imagine not needing antibiotics for my 7 year old’s UTI. No cranberry juice, just homeopathy. An overnight hault in symptoms after a few doses. And this was not a one off. Don’t know what happened in your situation beside a poor choice of homeopathic meds, but in my experience caregiving for 5 people as well as myself for over 10 years now, I have replaced the doctor and antibiotics for most everything but traumatic injuries. Even those situations have remedies that aid in healing along with proper acute care and dressings.

BUT the alternative treatments ARE NOT effective, & they;re only safe because they do nothing!

I think he said trials and not charles.

@@kookamunga2458 oh...sorry I guess i didn't catch the accent...I was wracking my brain...how clueless of me.

Could be a supporter of homeopathy who happens to have big ears. ;)

@@rogerkearns8094 ahhhh

Might have meant Prince/now King Charles who apparently is into homeopathy.

When you remember the purpose of the interview was for a TV documentary, to cut sections of maybe a few seconds to a minute or so to slot in among a whole bunch of other footage and images and voice-over, and wasn't originally meant for the current format of watching the full interview in one go, then the camera person did what they were meant to for the original purpose. If it's distracting then it's still excellent to just listen, you don't need to watch the screen for this one.

I personally didn't find it distracting but yes it's not what we're used to seeing, polished final productions.

You can actually get that medicine for free too, just without the plastic packaging. In fact it's delivered free and on demand to most homes.

Well I mean I’ve never tried Sauerkraut. Homeopathy is shit but….A similarity between Hitler and Homeopathy is that alone the ideas may have died out. It’s mass delusion that allows them to thrive. I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ how that would apply to Sauerkraut.

I thought sausage was wurst lol.

​@@bazpearce9993😂

It doesn't matter what I think. What do the randomised trials show?

Hitler - evil Homeopathy - useless but not necessarily evil, though goes rogue if it distracts from seeking effective treatment for serious problems. Sauerkraut - potentially tasty condiment. Not everyone likes it, but it ever hurt anyone as far as I'm aware. Unless you're allergic to cabbage.

I see by your screen name that you are probably pagan.....the placebo effect is not now nor has it ever been the same as a thing actually working.... My wife is pagan and we go through this all the time.... Homeopathic remedies do not actually work, if they did they would work for everyone not just witches. I'm sorry but that is reality.

On what basis do you conclude that?

Just curious what you use it for? How does it help?

Placebos don't work for everyone, however...

sadly, he's double blind

His RAM was full so they restarted him

When you remember the purpose of the interview was for a TV documentary, to cut sections of maybe a few seconds to a minute or so to slot in among a whole bunch of other footage and images and voice-over, and wasn't originally meant for the current format of watching the full interview in one go, then the camera person did what they were meant to for the original purpose. If it's distracting then it's still excellent to just listen, you don't need to watch the screen for this one.

But also that's a horrible word to use, saying restarted is entirely equivalent to retarded it softens nothing of the meaning or intention.

But also that's a horrible word to use, saying restarted is entirely equivalent to ret****d it softens nothing of the meaning or intention.

Nonsense. Their papers have been discredited on their onw lack of merit. Homeopathy is the equivalent of climate change denial

If water has a memory, how do you think about water closets?

@@speedingatheist Life and life abundant. Constant movement, interconnection, communication.

@@Mika-El- I would have been shocked if your reply made any sense.

So is it an art, like music or painting or dance, and makes you feel nice in the same way as those? Or what do you mean by it's an art? E.g Does it have artists? Do you have to put your personal flourish into the way you dilute, in the way a musician performs a trill or a dancer a twirl or a painter a swirl? Genuinely interested if you'd like to expand on your take on it.

@@speedingatheist It does, oh it does, friend.

Does common sense include taking into great consideration observational studies of animals, plants and babies healing with homeopathy? Would it be accurate to say that these findings could not be placebo or all spontaneous occurrences?

@3amBaCh I know I know. 8 was just sharing a joke. It can be very calming. Lavander for example, 😊

Aromatherapy can probably be considered one of the complementary treatments that aren't being criticised here, i.e. what makes you feel good, makes you feel good. Feeling good can improve well-being and thus strengthen the body's ability to defend or heal itself. Unless people are claiming it cures serious disease by itself, and recommend abandoning conventional medical treatments in favour of nice smells, then it would stray into the realm of the dreaded alternative medicine, which IS being strongly criticised here.

Go take some homeopathic medicine. You’re the type if customer they like.

Which God are you referring to?

All of this is Strawmanning, Atheism is a lack of belief in a God/Gods and that is all it is. Most Atheists and Scientists don't believe something came from nothing. Please explain how not believing something can be a logical fallacy.

I agree that part of the disagreement between atheists and theists is one of definition. You're right that the sky-dad idea of god is generally the one being rejected when atheists say they don't believe in god/s. But other potential definitions could please far more people. Personally I like the definition: "God is everything that exists, and can possibly exist, considered in it's entirety". If religious people's idea of their God is something less than that, they would need to concede they're worshipping a lesser entity. It's a way of looking at the universe in all its wonder, that scientists can explore as well as religious thinkers. The religious probably need to drop a lot of the old dogma that they cling onto largely out of habit or fear though, in favour of looking for the actual truth of things. I personally love truth. And "God" is just a word like any other, that needs a clear definition.