File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9812, message 93


Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:24:56 +0000
From: Daniel Haines <daniel-AT-tw2.com>
Subject: Re: Deleuze and redemption..flowers of flight


f1221-AT-cc.nagasaki-u.ac.jp wrote:
> 
> At 8:43 PM 98.12.8, Daniel Haines wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > or possibly this critique of homeopathy is based on a
> > philosophical/epistemological prejudice rather than any documented
> > scientific experimentation? "that couldn't possibly work because it
> > doesn't make any sense within the view of how things work i already
> > hold..."
> 
> [...]
> 
> That may be the way homeopathy looks upon medical science...
> 
> But in earnest : Samuel Hahnemann made his claims about 200 years ago.
> Homeopathy is around long enough to have proven what it is worth. However,
> there is no significant contribution of homeopathy to the treatment of
> a disease.
> 
> And by the way, there IS more >documented scientific experimentation< in
> this field than you may ever want to read.
> 


I don't think my own personal opinion could by any stretch of the
imagination be made to stand in for "how homeopathy looks upon" anything
- see my post to michael.

and I wasn't suggesting that there was no scientific documentation, only
that criticisms of homeopathy didn't necessarily follow from such
research, but rather from what people with particular ideas about "how
things work" make of such research...

also, as on the one hand,there are plenty of substances that have been
around much longer than 200 years that are rejected out of prejudice for
medical use - despite having been proved conclusively to be effective -
and, on the othe hand, most of the substances used by medical
science/pharmaceutical companies have been in medical use for rather
less than 200 years - on what exactly are you basing the idea that 200
years is "long enough to have proven what it is worth"?

finally, I notice you introduce the qualifier "significant"...  

[please se my post to michael also]

cheers,

dan h.


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