Study: Homeopathy not effective in treating anything

[longship]

67. I cannot speak for your personal health situation.

Since I know nothing about it but what you relate here.

But if I am sick with a cold, I stay home and self treat the symptoms. It'll take a week or so. Over the counter medicines do fine to cut down the misery. But colds are rarely fatal. And no matter how you treat them, they last as long as they last. I like Sudafed or Alka Selzer Plus. Both work okay, but one is still miserable. Hot tea with lemon feels good even though I know that there is no cure in it. Sometimes a shot of whiskey in it. But serious illness requires science. Not self-treatment or quackery from AltMed (which is all that it is).

And don't give me your straw man arguments about "white men in science". Those days are thankfully now mostly gone. I was born in the 40's and have been a lifelong science advocate. I am acutely aware of the biases. But science adapts to cultural changes. And those many unsung heroes (and heroines) are now thankfully becoming known. This is sadly after the fact in many cases, but it illustrates that today's science is increasingly no longer a "white man's science". But I encourage everybody to keep on fighting that fight.

The Cosmos series with Neil deGrasse Tyson was a great acknowledgement to those unsung heroes and heroines. I hope you watched it. If one cares about science at all, one should repeat similar stories. It is how one makes cultural change, which is something devoutly to be wished.

My regards.