Was wondering if anyone on this board could comment on this homeopath’s website?
Moderators!
SPAM? Anyone? :wally
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— G. Raven
Sorry, did I post something wrong? I’ve been reading the quack sites and did a websearch for homeopaths and found that site. I just thought the claims were kinda unusual, especially about being able to push a pipe into the ground in Texas and get free oil or gas or something to heat your home. Can you really do that there?
This is not spam, Cecil did an article on Homeopathy, it is linked from quackfiles.com
Here is the direct link the the article. http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/homeopathy_SDMB.html
The article invites discussion of the subject here on the Straight Dope Message Boards, Comments on Cecil’s Columns.
I knew you weren’t spamming, snifter. Welcome to the SDMB. You’ve provided a reference to a page where a lady claims she suffered from porphyria and angioedema (but she misspelled it). Then she started taking homeopathic remedies, and didn’t die! Further, the expert body called the Social Security Administration apparently ended her disability payments for these conditions.
What do I think? I had never heard of porphyria or angioedema, so I did a Google search. Porphyria is a real but rare disease. However, it seems to have been embraced by the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity crowd as well as the Gulf War Syndrome crowd, which doesn’t give that diagnosis too much credibility (MCS and GWS are regarded as psychosomatic conditions by most experts). She provides hints that someone diagnosed her with MCS, which completely blows the credibility. Angioedema is the swelling of the skin as a result of allergic reactions, and according to WebMD “may be uncomfortable but it generally is harmless and resolves itself in a few days.”
I think she was misdiagnosed with porphyria, and her angioedema got better. I’m sure that Ms. Irish sincerely believes that the homeopathic remedies cured her.
Or perhaps, being in the business of selling homeopathy, she wants visitors to her site to believe that?
What do you make of the claim about poeple in Texas pushing a pipe into the ground to get free power? And why on earth does she think this is bad?? 
Sorry snifter!
It’s just that people that have things to sell online regularly register on message boards to promote their wares through “Oooh, look at this, what do you folks think?” messages.
I see now that you are not affiliated with this thing, and apologize at the same time I welcome you to the boards!
— G. Raven
p.s. she’s a quack
S’okay, I see now how my post might have looked like spam, next time I’ll remember to reference the path I took, rather than a “look at this” type post.
Re: “Dr” Irish, I can’t believe anyone would take this person seriously, that bio is just bizarre! Either she’s extremely gullible or a very poor con artist.
Is Irish typical of homeopaths? I’ve never even met one, but the whole thing just smacks of snake oil to me.
Welcome to the SDMB, and thank you for posting your comment.
Please include a link to Cecil’s column if it’s on the straight dope web site.
To include a link, it can be as simple as including the web page location in your post (make sure there is a space before and after the text of the URL).
Cecil’s column can be found on-line at this link:
What’s up with homeopathy? (25-Feb-2000)
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All right, my comments on this thread so far.
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[li] If an SDMB poster thinks that a post is inappropriate or contrary to SDMB policy, it is better to e-mail a moderator (and CC an administrator) than to publish your accusation directly in the thread.[/li][li]snifter, it has happened in the past that devotees of a certain “miracle cure” were encouraged at the site promoting that cure to come post links at our message board because they had a large “click-through” rate from the SDMB. Which is why we are suspicious here of people posting a simple link with the comment “what do you think of this?”[/li][li] As I mentioned in my previous post, if you are commenting on a Straight Dope column, you need to mention in your post to which column you are referring.[/li][li]Finally, if you are posting a link to another site, in my mind it is simple courtesy to summarize the information provided at that site, so that people don’t have to follow the link to know what they will find there. In your post above I would have recommended one or two paragraphs of explanation regarding the contents of that site. And please avoid a direct “copy and paste” of information, rather please rephrase it in your own words (at the SDMB we take copyrights seriously.)[/li][/ul]
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Okay, now I understand why my original post was assumed to be spam. I just heard that homeopathy was a crock and found that crazy website and wanted to know if anyone else thought it was as nuts as I did.
Why don’t we just delete this whole thread and I’ll start a new one using the proper posting etiquette?
That’s the spirit snifter! Roll with the punches. It’s a pleasure to see a visitor to the SDMB who can survive the initial rough “hazing” that sometimes occurs.
We could have continued in this thread, but since you went to all the trouble of starting a new one, let’s point people to the new one and close this one.
snifter’s new, improved thread can be seen here:
Bizarre claims of a Homeopath!
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