Reply #9: With respect, a statement of that kind has little value beyond unverifable testimony

[Orrex]

For instance, here are a few things that would be helpful in assessing your statement:

1. What kind of homeopathic treatment did you use?
2. Did you attempt any kind of actual medical treatment before, during, or after your homeopathic treatment?
3. What was the nature of your migraines? That is, did they affect one side of your head? Both sides? Front? Back?
4. How long had you suffered from them prior to homeopathic treatment?
5. How often had you suffered from them prior to homeopathic treatment?
6. What their frequency consistent prior to homeopathic treatment? I.e., did you get a migraine every day, every week, every month? Or were they sporadic and unpredictable?
7. Do you still suffer from them, even if you suffer from them less severely or less often than before?
8. Were you formally evaluated by a physician prior to your homeopathic treatment?
9. Were you formally evaluated by a physician after your homeopathic treatment?
10. Did you effect any change of diet or lifestyle around the time of your homeopathic treatment?
11. What was your age at the time of your homeopathic treatment?
12. How soon after your homeopathic treatment did you determine that you'd been "cured?"
13. How did you acquire the homeopathic remedy?
14. If you acquired it from a naturopath (or the like), did the naturopath give some idea of how the remedy was supposed to work?
15. If you acquired it from a naturopath (or the like), did the naturopath charge you a fee for services or materials?
16. Had you previously used homeopathic treatments for other maladies?
17. Prior to undertaking the homeopathic migraine treatment, did you have any expectations about its likely effectiveness?
18. Before or after undertaking the treatment, did you speak to other people who'd tried the same remedy for migraines?
19. Have you recommended the treatment to others, and have they reported similar success?
20. If your migraines were to recur with equal or greater severity, would you attempt the same homeopathic remedy again?

These questions are likely to be assailed as "closed-minded," as some kind of attempt to "control the discourse," or as an effort to force the world to conform to my dogmatic "scientistic" worldview. I know this because it's happened here countless times before.

Nevertheless, they are entirely valid responses to any remarkable claim; it would be irresponsible to accept your testimony without at least a minimum of further inquiry. And if a wider section of the population is to gain the benefit of this migraine remedy, then it will face much more rigorous scrutiny than the mild questions I've posed here.