Could Germany's obsession with homeopathy explain the low vaccination rate?
I took homeopathic Byronia Alba for three weeks as a loading dose before the vaccines were available. I also formulated my own constitutional homeopathic remedy 12 years ago from a specific snake venom after trying various other snake remedies.<p>I have used it on my animals too. Not just pets like cats and dogs but also horses. I have saved dozens of animals while the vets insisted that euthanasia was the only option. In India, without resources while volunteering at an animal shelter, I learnt it to help street animals and feral cats. I mix and match homeopathic and allopathic modalities all the time.<p>I am not willing to cut off my nose to spite my face in the name of ‘scientific thinking’. So I don’t reject any healing modality that works.<p>There is literally no science that proves homeopathy doesn’t work. A lot of anti alt medicine rants is just as unscientific as medicinal quackery(this also exists). YMMV.<p>I was also willing to participate in the mass experimentation of covid vaccines even though I didn’t know much about it..none of us did..we all acted on the basis of faith. I was under no illusion about the alleged effectiveness of the vaccines. It was a crapshoot. It is the same attitude that I had when I first adopted homeopathy. In balance, I have had more success with homeopathy than with allopathic (or even herbal&#x2F;Ayurvedic) modalities and I tend to favour homeopathy over all else.<p>Also: let’s not forget that it’s cheap and somewhat open source. Anyone with time and effort can learn it. So it’s not a profit gusher. If anything, it diverts profits from Big Pharma. I adore Big Pharma, but I am not going to shell out thousands of dollars and hours of my life in waiting rooms for a headache or flu or a broken arm or asthma or migraines if I can figure it out myself. I can. Many can’t. I am glad that they have other options. Just don’t want others to diss mine. Especially by those who don’t want to educate themselves about other healing modalities and would simply parrot others in the name of ‘science’.<p>I have literally never met a scientist who disagrees at once with someone who carries a different point of view. Scientific temperament is one that is ever searching. I have known intelligent, thoughtful and highly educated scholars who would at the most crinkle their foreheads with not so much as a smirk ..and they’d very politely ask for reasons why..this is how I filter scientists from non scientists. Not by the degree they earn from books and parroting lecturing professors. The trademark of science is curiosity and a questioning attitude. When that dies, science dies. IMO..even within my relatively short lifetime..scientific temperament has dimmed considerably and I expect it to die soon..with only the gatekeepers managing the flow and direction of new discoveries and science.<p>Edited to add: that is an idiotic article. Equating homeopathy to ‘nazi medicine’ and an anti Semitic motive is just bad journalism. I find it repulsive that this author is published.