RE: Fairy stories

Cecile Mills (seaseal@got.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 00:12:53 -0700

>Homeopathy was invented by the German Samuel Hahnemann in
>the early 19th century, and took root in America during the naturalistic
>ferment that also spawned phrenology, animal magnetism, mesmerism,
>hydropathy, chiropractic, and osteopathy (Nature Religion in America,
>Catherine Albanese, 1990). Although some of these seem to contain
>certain efficacious practices, the intellectual frameworks they
>represented have been discredited by the advancement of knowledge,
>including much you probably take for granted.

Here's some different material about Homeopathy*

Hahnemann, an M.D., developed homeopathy when he observed that taking
quinine when you weren't sick produced malaria-like symptoms. He started to
experiment and his ideas spread. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mark Twain [Samuel
Clemens], and Louisa May Alcott used homeopathy. Today growing numbers of
people especially in France, Germany, England, and India use it.

* from The Circle of Simplicity by Cecile Andrews

When a phenomenon isn't explainable by science, when will we question the
science? I think it's time now to do so. Keep in mind, it's science that
tells us it's OK to drink alcohol then it's not OK; it's not OK to use salt
then it's OK; it's OK to drink caffeine then it's not; meat is healthy,
then it's not; milk is healthy,then it's not.

Science is good at compartmentalization and measurement of discrete units;
I don't think it's appropriate for systems.

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