As you know we have learned the different kinds of alternative medicine there exist. I encourage you to read these breaking news and post your comments on the blog.
To do this task, first read the BBC article and then visit the webpage below before answering the questions.
A. This is what the BBC has published on homeopathic remedies. Read this article.
B. Visit this webpage: Homeopathy : there's nothing in it and answer the following questions:
C. According to the information provided on this webpage:
1. Do you believe in alternative medicine?
2. What is homeopathy?
3. Do you think homeopathy works?
4. How would you describe the skeptic's campaign?
4. Why are these protesters writing a letter to Alliance Boots? What is Boots? Read the open letter to Boots and explain the reason.
Please remember to post your comments on the blog.
Thanks in advance for participating, I'm looking forward to reading your opinions.
Regards,
Elena
6 comments:
Homeopathy is a kind of alternative medicine which has lot of people who adore it. However, there are a lot of people who argue that it is a big lie. In my case, I know people where homeopathy works and they are really euphoric with their treatment. They were fed up with conventional medicine. They did not find solution, their body (stomach, fingers, headaches, ...) had been suffered all kind of legal drugs of conventional medicine in order to mitigate their pains. They are actually healthy and happy with this alternative medicine. I guess that it depends how it is going on your body and your mind.
In my opinion, homeopathy's efficacy depends on your power of suggestion.
Homeopathy it isn´t advised for
babies or animals. Do you suspect why? It's easy, both haven't knowledge that they are taking a medicine.
As you can see, I'm very skeptic about this alternative "medicine". I wish it could work, but don't.
I don’t believe in alternative medicine because not only are these products ineffective, they can also be dangerous.
Homeopathy is an unscientific and absurd pseudoscience, yet it persists today as an accepted complementary medicine.
Any apparent benefits from homeopathic 'treatments' were simply placebo effects. Homeopathy does not work.
Campaign aims to raise awareness about the reality of homeopathy. They will tell us how it can be proven not to work, why homeopaths' claims are impossible, why we should care. The placebo effect offered no protection. That's the harm.
The Boots brand is synonymous with health care in the United Kingdom. However, in evidence given recently to the Commons Science and Technology Committee, they admitted that they do not believe homeopathy to be efficacious. Despite this, homeopathic products are offered for sale in Boots pharmacies – many of them bearing the trusted Boots brand.
I think Boots pharmacies should make people aware of these products are ineffective. The greatest danger occurs when homeopathy replaces a conventional treatment. The placebo effect is positive, but homeopathy can have dangerous effects. For example, many homeopaths have a negative attitude towards immunization, so some homeopathic parents may be less likely to immunize their child. This attitude only isn’t dangerous for their own children even though for the rest of the children who are in regular contact with them.
Hi, really interesting comments, thanks for your participation.
C u in class,
Elena Gómez
1. I am skeptical about alternative medicine because they have not shown to be a hundred per cent effective.
2. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience accepted as complementary medicine. It involves taking substances to treat diseases.
3. I have never tried this kind of therapy. However, until now, I had heard people speaking in favour of these methods. But I reckon I was not too close to these people.
4. The campaign was organised by a non-profit organisation. They aim to get people to discern truth from fiction in homeopathy matters.
5.
- The protesters are clients from Boot that have been buying homeopathy products promoted by them. They claimed that Boot provided this substances even when they were aware of they do not have pharmacological effects.
- Boot is a brand that sells cosmetic and pharmacological products.
- Their reasons are that they consider that Boot, knowing that they are a trusted brand, has made the most of it. Furthermore, Boot has sold drugs with placebo effects that even they have made illness people delay seeking a proper medical assistance.
1. I agree with Luis, I don’t believe in alternative medicine. Alternative medicine’s efficacy depends on our suggestion. Anyway, maybe some herbal remedies or alternative medicines can have slight benefit effects on our bodies, but never is a cure.
2. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience considered an alternative medicine. Homeopathy’s treatments consist of having small amounts of substances that causes a physical response of our body against the illness. A friend of mine usually has some homeopathic products to deal with cold or seasonal flu.
3. When we speak about homeopathy or other alternative medicines I’m not a believer. Sometimes people want to believe and need to believe, but the only truth is science. I have known several friends, relatives or acquaintances when medicine has no solution to their illnesses; they looked for possible treatments in complementary medicines.
4. The campaign is organised by a non-profit organisation (MSS) to promote scientific scepticism and against homeopathy in this case. In my opinion, there might be more of these campaigns to warn and inform people about these issues.
5. Boots is a British brand that sells cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. The protestants are writing the letter because Boots sells many placebo products. What is more, they sell them even believing they don’t work. In the open letter the MSS declares Boots only sells homeopathic products because customers believe they work. But worst of all is that many patients may delay a proper medical assistance because they believe homeopathy can treat their illnesses.
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