Pues si lee la Am J Med debe estar acostumbrada a las críticas, ya que publican comentarios bastante críticos acerca de la homeopatía. Aquí podéis encontrar uno que he visto al azar bastante reciente (del 2009) que lo ejemplifica un poco. Es un punto de vista interesante, la verdad:
IN SETTING LIMITS TO AN OPEN MIND
Should we keep an open mind about astrology, perpetual motion, alchemy, alien abduction, and sightings of Elvis Presley? No, and we are happy to confess that our minds have closed down on homeopathy in the same way.
Here’s why:
● Homeopathy is based on an absurd concept that denies progress in physics and chemistry. Some 160 years after Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, an essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, we are still debating whether homeopathy is a placebo or not.
● Homeopathy is mainly advocated for self-limiting conditions, for example, it cures a cold in 7 days that would otherwise take a week. Do even homeopaths rely on their treatments for cancer and other life-threatening conditions?
● There are no reported major “advances” in homeopathy.
● Homeopathic principles are bold conjectures. There has been no spectacular corroboration of any of its founding principles.
An example of the spectacular corroboration of a bold conjecture is that the planet Pluto was predicted by observing minor discrepancies in the orbit of its neighboring planet Neptune, and its discovery was counted as a spectacular corroboration of a bold conjecture (although in 2006 the International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto’s status from that of a planet to a dwarf planet). In medicine the same might apply to the discovery of antibiotics.
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After more than 200 years, we are still waiting for homeopathy “heretics” to be proved right, during which time the advances in our understanding of disease, progress in therapeutics and surgery, and prolongation of the length and quality of life by so-called allopaths have been breathtaking. The true skeptic therefore takes pride in closed mindedness when presented with absurd assertions that contravene the laws of thermodynamics or deny progress in all branches of physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine.
No toméis esto como palabras propias, puesto que no estoy diciendo que el artículo tenga un 100% de representación en mi, pero vaya, que es interesante lo que propone.