Homeopathy and Poetry

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Looks like homeopathy might have found some rhyme (but still no reason).

See PubMed:
Homeopathy and Poetry: An exploration
Homeopathy, 2006 Jan;95(1):20-7
 
Here is the conclusions section in its entirety:
Through my exploration of poetry and homeopathy,
I have shown to understand further; we must be
attentive, be fully present for the patient. Daring to
wander the edges, we find a still centre of healing
possibility. As the consultation evolves, language and
forms of poem unfold, improving the dialogue and
relationship, expanding space. Remedies seethe and
seep through our consciousness, enlivened by poetic
images and their expression in patients. If not mermaids,
we can be taught to hear something of other
worlds as we practice in this heightened state, and can
assist the visualization of the full being of the patient
before us, taking care in the telling of the story, such
that this assists healing too. All this requires courage.
We share with the brave poet a sense of wonder; an
enriched practice of homeopathy emerges.
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It took me a moment to put my finger on what this reminded me of. Finally the penny dropped, it's the sleeve notes to Tales from Topographic Oceans, or Olias of Sunhillow.
 
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The same issue of the Journal also contains mucho correspondence disagreeing with the Lancet paper, all of it tedious and much of it overwrought. The previous issue, on the other hand, contains a suggestion (not original) that the well-known memory of water is due to solitons. I'll look forward to chatting about the KdV equation with the next homeopath I meet.
 
Seeing as this is a homeopathy poetry thread ...

In homeopathy, you'll be a hero,
If you can prove that zero isn't really zero.
That "it" is there, even if its not,
And it's not just a pile of bogus rot.
You'll be able to claim the JREF prize,
And to the top of your profession rise.
'Homeopath' will be a profession,
Instead of just a total pile of b@ll@cks duping gullable people out of money.

I think I lost the meter and rhyme at the end there ... that's modern poetry for you ...
 
Still browsing through the back issues of this rubbish journal, I find a personal tribute to Jacques Benveniste by Bernard Poitevin one of the co-authors of the Nature article. He doesn't mention Randi specifically, but says of JB's later years
We had a project to cooperate again, but shortly afterwards came the sad episode of the scientific protocol of the BBC (Horizon programme, November 2002). I was contacted by the BBC, but, after reading the protocol, refused to take part. Benveniste felt betrayed by those who had been contacted by the BBC. I did not betray him. But this suffering, these accumulated stresses, certainly contributed to his heart problems.
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OK, now I've got back to 2003 and correspondence concerning the Horizon programme. J Hughes-Games (Past President of the Faculty of Homeopathy) wrote
It is preposterous that ‘Nature’ (and later the Horizon programme) should have chosen a conjuror and self-proclaimed showman, James Randi, with no knowledge of science, to discredit two distinguished scientists. Mr Randi turned the original investigation in Benveniste's laboratory into a farce by doing conjuring tricks during the investigation! The choice of Randi immediately suggests the possibility of deception and sleight-of-hand. Do these obviously sincere scientists stand accused of fraud and if so by whom—this conjuror Randi?
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and later
Mr Randi is offering $1 million to anyone who can prove that homeopathy can work. If Mr Randi ‘sat in’ on a National Health Service homeopathic hospital outpatients for a session or two (he would have to promise not to do any conjuring tricks), he would most certainly have to hand over the money.
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Pathetic.
 
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