http://nccam.nih.gov/comment/378#comment-378

https://nccam.nih.gov/research/blog/niche#comments

Jeez…he just blew us off. He and Dr. Briggs at the NCCAM really don’t give a rap that they are wasting taxpayer money to fund homeopaths like Dr. Iris Bell for 10 years and a total of $3,000,000 to “educate” traditional health care providers to understand CAM modalities.

I made two suggestions to Dr. Killen:

“I have two suggestions for the NCCAM:

Firstly, why not award grants to the CDC and State Health Departments’ Reference Laboratories, to conduct sophisticated laboratory tests on homeopathy “medicine”…to finally determine that water has no memory, water that has undergone multiple succussions beyond Avogadro’s number has not one molecule of the original substance diluted in the water.

Secondly, I would suggest that NCCAM assign their computer technology staff to this blog’s comment section, to make it more user friendly. It is very disconcerting to have to use slash marks to delineate paragraphs and to read those same paragraphs.”

I’m beginning to think that a suggestion by “Orac” at the Respectful Insolence blog to just “nuke” the NCCAM is the only recourse to eliminate this parasitic center at the NIH.

Here’s Iris Bell (not to be confused with the comedienne Iris Bell), on YouTube, with “Homeopathy Debate II” at U. Conn., 2007. Dr. Steve Novella was in the first part of the debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYO6nNQGe1M

The first and most popular hit asks for age and sex and then…face shape

Loops back to Sally Fallon, eh? I’m shocked.

The first and most popular hit asks for age and sex and then…face shape, followed by “Loves to travel” yes or no, then height but with no measurements, just four choices: short, petite, normal or tall. (This is stuff of a quality reminiscent of drunken toddlers.) Then it moves onto questions one must rate one to four such as “Cry Readily for no Reasonable Cause,” “Cry When Thanked,” “Cry When Nervous or From Anxiety” and all in a way that would cause a cold-reading carnival fortune teller to spit in disgust.

But take not my word, go see the show yourself:

http://www.homeopathyandmore.com/menu/Constitution/personality1.php

And do get to page two which begins with all the crying and ends 172 questions later with “Can not cover neck even in the cool weather.” (My favorite section is “Fears” especially when it asks to rate one’s fear of ghosts.)

Yes, I noticed that and was impressed…. that he responded, not with the response itself though. It left much to be desired IMO.

I also noticed that he did not at all respond to my post. I followed up with another one asking him to and narrowing it down to the first question I would like answered if that is all he can manage for the time being. I guess we shall see what happens.

Who would have thought that my earlier post would have generated a reply from John Killen, Jr., M.D., the Deputy Director of the NCCAM?

Is it a coincidence…or is *someone* (cough, cough), (John Killen, Jr., M.D.), “lurking” on these blogs?

http://nccam.nih.gov/comment/327#comment-327

I commend you for taking the time to dissect these studies–most of the gobbeldy-gook reminded me of a couple of papers I wrote in a Myth, Magic and Ritual class (anthropology requirement–nothing to do with buying into woo, not in my day anyway) that attempted to make some faux-intellectual comment on the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, who is pretty much considered to be unfathomable.

I guess it’s better to have college students sniffing homeopathics rather than glue–or whatever is popular these days among the sniffer types, but that wasn’t the aim of the study, was it?