The World Health Organization Speaks About Homeopathy And Says It Sucks Rotten Hitler Eggs

Dr Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB Department, WHO: “Our evidence-based WHO TB treatment/management guidelines, as well as the International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) do not recommend use of homeopathy.”

Dr Mukund Uplekar, TB Strategy and Health Systems, WHO: “WHO’s evidence-based guidelines on treatment of tuberculosis…have no place for homeopathic medicines.”

Dr Teguest Guerma, Director Ad Interim, HIV/AIDS Department, WHO: “The WHO Dept. of HIV/AIDS invests considerable human and financial resources [...] to ensure access to evidence-based medical information and to clinically proven, efficacious, and safe treatment for HIV… Let me end by congratulating the young clinicians and researchers of Sense About Science for their efforts to ensure evidence-based approaches to treating and caring for people living with HIV.”

Dr Sergio Spinaci, Associate Director, Global Malaria Programme, WHO: “Thanks for the amazing documentation and for whistle blowing on this issue… The Global Malaria programme recommends that malaria is treated following the WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria.”

Joe Martines, on behalf of Dr Elizabeth Mason, Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO: “We have found no evidence to date that homeopathy would bring any benefit to the treatment of diarrhoea in children…Homeopathy does not focus on the treatment and prevention of dehydration - in total contradiction with the scientific basis and our recommendations for the management of diarrhoea."

So here's a question:

What does all that say about Whole Foods having a Whole Section™ provided for "homeopathic treatments"? Or that "homeopathic treatments" are sold at all? Or that homeopaths are viewed as doctors in England and France?

Does it say that, maybe, we're all surrounded by a bunch of "progressive" swindlers? That, maybe, there's another major life-and-death Bernie Madoff-type NewAge scam going on? That, maybe, someone's been taking advantage of the public? (Hell, if these homeopaths will take advantage of people with tuberculosis, malaria, and diarrhea, then these same NewAge water salesmen certainly don't care about YOU, right?)

Come on,...I know I've got a foul mouth, and I ain't "spiritual", but who's really your buddy?

Have I ever lied to you?

Hat Tip: CounterKnowledge

Flying High (No Mo)

"Homeopathy,...'can put lives at risk, undermines conventional medicine and spreads misinformation … When homeopathy stands in place of effective treatment, lives are lost.'"

-- Sense About Science, asking the World Health Organisation to finally issue "an unequivocal directive" to that effect, as The Witness.

What Do These People Have In Common? They're All In Stupid NewAge Cults, Worshiping Quackery - And Killers - While Also Promoting Very Bad Art

From Madonna’s quest to “neutralise radiation” to Tom Cruise’s dismissals of psychiatry, celebrities are seldom shy about expressing their views on health and science – even when they appear not to know what they are talking about.

A roll call of public figures such as Cruise and Delia Smith have offered bogus advice or “quackery” this year, according to scientists and doctors. The charity Sense About Science is concerned that celebrities mislead the public when they endorse theories, diets or health products while misrepresenting the science involved.

Some – such as Oprah Winfrey and Kate Moss – espouse “detox” regimes, while others, such as Sharon and Kelly Osbourne, believe (mistakenly) that the Pill can cause cancer.

Nor are politicians exempt from lending credence to health myths. The US President-elect is among several American public figures who continue to suggest that the MMR vaccination is a potential cause of autism, despite an overwhelming weight of scientific evidence to the contrary.

...Demi Moore, the actress, surprises the experts with her use of “highly trained medical leeches” to “detoxify” her blood.

Kate Moss, the model, is reported to be on a strict “detox” diet of fruit and vegetables at a health spa in Thailand. But nutritionists note that such regimes exclude important food groups such as protein.

Moss’s friend Stella McCartney, the designer, was criticised last year for saying that a chemical found in skin creams was also found in antifreeze. Gary Moss, a pharmacologist, said that the chemical, propylene glycol, was versatile and its use in cosmetics was not “scary”, as claimed.

...The Sense About Science initiative is an update of a leaflet encouraging celebrities to avoid making claims until they have checked the facts. While there has been “considerable improvement” in the way British celebrities approach medicine, the charity says its files are still too full of pseudo-scientific claims. “We don’t expect people to know everything about science; the problem comes when they don’t consider checking it or asking questions.”

-- David Rose, showing one can be rich and famous and still be a NewAge idiot with no concern for the good of the nation or the world - or even The Times Online.

Fabulously Famous For Fraud

"A small group of people in the public eye promote pseudo-science without embarrassment and cannot be dissuaded from it."

-- From a new information leaflet, on the obviously cultish behavior and idiotic pronouncements of various celebrities, put out by Britain's Sense About Science, "a charity founded to increase the public's understanding of scientific issues." [Emphasis Mine]

Madonna (looking good, above) Elle MacPherson, Jamie Oliver, Chris de Burgh, Heather Mills, Stella McCartney, Joanna Lumley, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Prince Charles, the late Queen Mother, and various other members of the Royal Family, are all on the Sense About Science list of celebrities who have been told they don't know what they're talking about but still won't stop promoting what The Telegraph calls "celebrity mumbo-jumbo". (I don't know if The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast in England but, in America, she would be at the top of this whackjob list.)



Psychological Illusionist Derrin Browne (seen above) was saluted by SAS for his understanding of, and respect for, scientific principals. Master Magician, and anti-homeopathy campaigner, James Randi, of course, is regarded as a genius by all scientists.

You Get The Wood - I'll Light The Fire

"If you eat food that is 'chemical free' (whatever that means), 'macrobiotic' (ditto) and designed to 'detoxify', you will live forever, surely? Sadly not. The harsh truth,...will dismay Britain's army of zen exercisers,...we don't want to hear that it has often been decided before we were even born when, and how, we will go into that long dark night.

Probably the best advice if you want to live a long healthy life is to choose your parents carefully. Your genes, as much as your diet or your lifestyle, dictate your health to a perhaps depressing degree.

We used to persecute witches. Perhaps we should start to do so again — not harmless old women with cats this time, but the seedy sellers of snake oil and hype promising us health and happiness in a bottle who proliferate in our society.

Modern witchcraft has its own vocabulary, a set of runic symbols to describe its spells — terms like 'toxin', 'chemical free', 'biofields' and the all pervasive 'natural' which should alert the sensible and skeptical that they are about to be had."

- Michael Hanlon, of The Daily Mail, commenting on the group, Sense About Science, which found the health, organic, "all natural", and scientific claims of most over-the-counter products are completely bogus. The claims weren't even understandable, or believable, to the people that make them. Only the gullible Trader Joes/Whole Foods/Health Food public was sucking them up to "feel good" about their purchases. Giving money to liars - and raising the price of food for the poor - for their own selfishness.

Of course, TMR is in favor of burning witches, snake oil salesmen, and all other manifestations of the NewAge. The only debatable item at TMR is how,...