Comments on: Sinner of the Week: 6 September 2015 – Homeopathy https://www.heatherhastie.com/sinner-of-the-week-6-september-2015-homeopathy/ My take on our world Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Peter Bankers https://www.heatherhastie.com/sinner-of-the-week-6-september-2015-homeopathy/#comment-5360 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:49:27 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1273#comment-5360 In reply to Heather Hastie.

Contrary to your claims mercury in the form of amalgam fillings are still used in New Zealand. That’s according to Medsafe and the NZ Dental Association websites.

http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/hot/alerts/amalgam-fillings.asp%20%20%20%20%20%20

https://www.nzda.org.nz/pub/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&g=0&t=1442811237&hash=bcf7faf9aee2f3da2998487eace1abc209532a8b&file=fileadmin/user_upload/resources/images/Printed-Merchandise/bro_amalgam.gif

]]> By: Heather Hastie https://www.heatherhastie.com/sinner-of-the-week-6-september-2015-homeopathy/#comment-5024 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:48:37 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1273#comment-5024 In reply to paxton marshall.

I agree! Mercury is a big deal. But there’s no mercury in fillings in NZ, or the flu vaccine, which is what I was getting at.

We shouldn’t close ourselves off, like you say, but a homeopath’s current methods for diagnosing too much mercury are clearly bullshit. I’ve got another even more outrageous example of this particular homeopath’s practice, but that person reads my posts, so I didn’t include it.

]]> By: paxton marshall https://www.heatherhastie.com/sinner-of-the-week-6-september-2015-homeopathy/#comment-5019 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 20:39:03 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1273#comment-5019 Not defending homeopathy and especially not ant-vaxers, but mercury is not a negligible environmental concern. It is spewed out by combustion of fossil fuels world wide and has reached dangerous levels of toxicity in top of the food chain fish such as tuna. Of course it was once widely used as a medicine to treat syphilis. On homeopathy, science has not explained everything and while we should resist subscribing to a remedy with no scientific evidence for its effectiveness, we should not close ourselves off to the likelihood that there are remedies that science has not yet identified.

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