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[post_content] => A willingness to compromise and see arguments from both sides gives the homeopathic community a sound footing in the war of words waged by its critics, says Society Chief Executive Mark Taylor.
Despite the huge popularity of homeopathy and the non-toxic nature of remedies, sceptics refuse to accept their contentions may be flawed, Mark says in a blog post on this website.
“They don’t consider that 200 million homeopathy patients round the world may be on to something or that there is credible evidence to be considered. They put their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and shout 'No! no! no!', drowning out all around them,” he writes.
While the modern world required questions to be asked about everything and compromise to be sought, a handful of sceptics continued ‘to whip up unfounded hysteria and be selective with the truth’, Mark says, adding that the problem lay with the doubters, rather than with homeopathy itself.
“They have become addicted to recreational outrage … and spend too much time on social media,” he asserts, claiming the current threat from the Good Thinking Society to pursue a judicial review against the Professional Standards Authority’s process of accreditation for the Society was a case in point.
“Their accompanying statement is a quite deliberate one-eyed commentary, ignoring the evidence and containing statements that are simply false,” says Mark whose blog also reveals what happened when he arranged a clandestine meeting with Simon Singh, one of homeopathy’s harshest critics and, as it happens, chair of the Good Thinking Society.
“My purpose was to try and understand ‘the enemy’; to get a feeling for what he thought and aspired to in order that we could water down his campaigns against homeopathy and possibly even learn how to counter them.”
Find out how the two got on by reading Mark’s blog here.
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A willingness to compromise and see arguments from both sides gives the homeopathic community a sound footing in the war of words waged by its critics, says Society Chief Executive Mark Taylor.
Despite the huge popularity of homeopathy and the non-toxic nature of remedies, sceptics refuse to accept their contentions may be flawed, Mark says in a blog post on this website.
“They don’t consider that 200 million homeopathy patients round the world may be on to something or that there is credible evidence to be considered. They put their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and shout ‘No! no! no!’, drowning out all around them,” he writes.
While the modern world required questions to be asked about everything and compromise to be sought, a handful of sceptics continued ‘to whip up unfounded hysteria and be selective with the truth’, Mark says, adding that the problem lay with the doubters, rather than with homeopathy itself.
“They have become addicted to recreational outrage … and spend too much time on social media,” he asserts, claiming the current threat from the Good Thinking Society to pursue a judicial review against the Professional Standards Authority’s process of accreditation for the Society was a case in point.
“Their accompanying statement is a quite deliberate one-eyed commentary, ignoring the evidence and containing statements that are simply false,” says Mark whose blog also reveals what happened when he arranged a clandestine meeting with Simon Singh, one of homeopathy’s harshest critics and, as it happens, chair of the Good Thinking Society.
“My purpose was to try and understand ‘the enemy’; to get a feeling for what he thought and aspired to in order that we could water down his campaigns against homeopathy and possibly even learn how to counter them.”
Find out how the two got on by reading Mark’s blog here.