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- From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
- Subject: Re: Summary of evidence for homeopathy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.205247.10947@sr.com>
- Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
- Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
- References: <1dp2tfINNc4a@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <dank.721767362@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Nov16.211637.29491@sr.com> <1992Nov17.212916.8813@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:52:47 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In article <1992Nov17.212916.8813@samba.oit.unc.edu> Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.211637.29491@sr.com> dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow) writes:
- >>Ok, let me say I don't *know* homeopathy works but I had the flu last
- >>week and bought a flu hom. remedy that's been on the market for years.
- >>It's a weird name that I forget how to spell, starts with an Occ I think.
- >>
- >>Anyway, I took the stuff as directed as was over in within 24 hours.
- >>
- >>Now, I know this doesn't prove anything. You could say, well it couldn't
- >>have been the flu then or it was a minor bout or whatever. And all that
- >>could be true. I do know how sick I felt before I started taking it,
- >>and when I felt *that* bad with the flue before, it never went away
- >>that quickly. And it couldn't have been placebo as far as I know, 'cause
- >>I don't see how a placebo effect could amke the flu go away. I feel like
- >>I'm going to die when I have the flu.
- >>
- >>David S.
- >>
- >>
- >
- >This reminds me of a gal I met that didn't understand a thing about why
- >one should finish all of their antibiotics. She said that she always
- >bought them in Mexico, and whenever she gets a cold, she starts taking
- >PCN, and lo and behold, the cold is over within a few days! She then
- >stops the antibiotic.
- >
- >When I told her that most of us don't bother with antibiotics for the common
- >cold, and that our colds are over in a few days too, she was dumbfounded.
- >I then tried to paint a picture of the end of the world as we know it
- >because she's serving to produce antibiotic resistant bacteria.
- >
- >-ks
- >
- >--
- > The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- > internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
-
- Like I said, I have never been that sick one day and ben over it the next,
- Plus, through experience, I know what the flu feels like for me. It's
- distinctive from any other "bug" I ever had.
-
- David S.
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