[escepticos] Homeopatía y PubMed: unos hallazgos y una petición

[Julián]

Muy buenas a la parroquia,

Tras varios días de inútil y frustrante debate con un seguidor de la
homeopatía ("tú no lo puedes entender", "que no lo puedas probar no
significa que no exista", etc.), he decidido refrescarme en PubMed a ver qué
encontraba al respecto.

En primer lugar, si algún alma caritativa tiene acceso a una suscripción
para el Lancet, le agradecería que me pudiese enviar este artículo:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16125589  (Are the clinical effects of
homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials
of homoeopathy and allopathy.).

Y, en segundo lugar, comparto con vosotros unos textos que he encontrado:
cuando he visto que alguno de los links relacionados pertenecían a una
revista llamada "Homeopathy", me he prometido minutos de hilaridad y
diversión. Verbigracia:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17549232    "Immunology and Homeopathy.
5. The Rationale of the 'Simile'"
*The foundation of homeopathic medicine is the 'Similia Principle', [charla
que desluce lo que viene] Preliminary evidence is suggesting that even
ultra-low doses and high-dilutions of drugs may incorporate structural or
frequency information and interact with chaotic dynamics and
physical-electromagnetic levels of regulation. (...)*

Eso de los niveles físicoelectromagnéticos me ha dejado de patedefuá. Y
viene otra:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439970   "Truth, proof and evidence:
homeopathy and the medical paradigm."
*The study and practice of medicine, in its most personal and intimate
functions, its most sophisticated scientific and technological
manifestations, and its philosophical and ethical ramifications, are central
to our understanding of the human condition. Homeopathic medicine: its
insights, the questions that it begs, and the scientific and philosophical
challenges it presents, has a significant contribution to make to this
process. To be actively and seriously engaged with homeopathy is an
adventurous undertaking. It is to be engaged in exploring both human nature
and the nature of the world we inhabit. *

Este todavía no habla de campos electromagnéticos, pero poco le falta. Eso
sí, en el abstract continúa con esta joya:
*In the third part it introduces the concept of 'personal knowledge' as an
essential ingredient of scientific discovery and the pursuit of truth. *
Ya. Punto primero del fundamento homeopático: "X me ha funcionado, *ergo* X
funciona".

Y la joya de la corona, lo más obvio, para el final:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15532696 The placebo-controlled trial as
a test of complementary and alternative medicine: observations from research
experience of individualised homeopathic treatment.
*The authors' experience of conducting clinical trials in homeopathy and
analysing data from these has drawn attention to a fundamental problem
(...). For clinical trials of homeopathy to be accurate representations of
practice, we need modified designs that take into account the complexity of
the homeopathic intervention. (...)*
O sea: que la medicina no funciona por sí misma, sólo si el homeopatólogo
tiene labia. Me pregunto entonces, con lo subidos que suelen ser los
cardiólogos, cómo es posible que las angioplastias sirvan para algo...

Saludetes diluidos,
Julián


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