Mad Kally

The burden of proof is on you. They are your claims.

From the National Institute of Health <a href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/tourette.htm" target="_blank"> (NIH) </a> website.

Tourettes Syndrome:
Chemotherapeutic agents for cancer have horrific side effects. Would you refuse that too? Maybe look for some Laetrile tablets on the internet?

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Gurdur

You know the Bible, Corwin ?
It's a wonderful source on non-chemical trreatment of epilepsy, demon-possession and raising people from the dead.

I heartily recommend it to you.

Go to the Bible and have all your questions answered !

Oh, BTW, I studied neurology at uni.
Or IOW, I'm hardly new to all of this.

Oh come now, Corwin, unless you're gonna pull a Corwin and want to not have anything to do with anything outside your little orthodox world, for fear of contamination, then I heartily recommend the Bible to you.
Or possibly the Koran too !
No need to be prejudiced after all....

Corwin

Chemo drugs can and frequently do have horrible side effects. Most of which can be alleviated by naturopathic remedies, such as sativa varieties of marijuana. The two forms of medicine don't have to be in opposition to each other.

Gurdur

Oh come now, Corwin, don't be coy, we're still waiting for you to back up your claims with evidence on the success of alternative treatments for TS.

Or possibly you don't have any ?

Mad Kally

Nevermind. Good luck everyone.

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Corwin

Well gurdy... since you're clearly too lazy to do this yourself...

<a href="http://www.tourette-syndrome.com/holistic.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tourette-syndrome.com/holistic.htm</a>

<a href="http://12.31.13.47/HealthNews/reuters/NewsStory0402200241.htm" target="_blank">http://12.31.13.47/HealthNews/reuters/NewsStory0402200241.htm</a>

<a href="http://my.webmd.com/encyclopedia/article/2950.1620" target="_blank">http://my.webmd.com/encyclopedia/article/2950.1620</a>

These are just the ones I pulled up fairly easily.... unfortunately a lot of sites I found had the typical 'well I've had a huge number of patients tell me that they've used naturopathic or homeopathic medication for this disorder and had it work beautifully... but I've never bothered to look into it so I'm going to keep perscribing a drug that rots their brains... besides... I have a yacht to pay for and if they don't like it, it isn't all THAT bad... they can just deal with the symptoms.'

Ok I'm paraphrasing.... I admit that.

Corwin

Thanks for the patience, both of you. I don't suppose it occurred to either of you that I might be doing exactly that? No... of course not.

tronvillain

Corwin...

So that's a "No" on the use of the smallpox virus in vaccines? Hard to see what it has to do with dilution then. As I said earlier, if you dilute blowfish toxin to homeopathic levels, it will be harmless.

As for domestic animals, that vets practice it on them proves nothing. Where is the evidence that it does anything to those animals at all, other than comfort their owners? When alternative medicine violates the known laws of physics and provides nothing but anecdotal evidence, don't expect it to get much credit.

Gurdur

You're really obsessed with me, aren't you ?

Why should I do your work for you ?
So viatmins may help certain TS sufferers.
Uh huh ! Nobel Prize time !
So I guess you are either terribly mistaken or you are a liar, Corwin, when you claimed there was no medical research into so-called alternative methods, and that those nasty, nasty doctors just weren't paying attention.

As I said, there are ongoing medical studies.
But you haven't produced any hard, verified evidence yet, have you ?

And you still haven't produced any evidence at all as yet for classical homeopathy.

How about substituting the word "lying" for "paraphrasing" above

Don't mention it.
Just don't whine.

I don't suppose it occurred to you that you might not be making much sense? No... of course not.

Synaesthesia

I wonder where we would be if the tens of billions of dollars spent on unproven therapies was spent developing medicine that actually works? Hell, we could do that and have enough money left over to test the efficacy of various unproven therapies.