Are you saying that homeopathy is effective when administered by someone who does know what they're doing?
Because the alternative conclusion is that homeopathy is never effective, and the conclusion being drawn is true.
Because the alternative conclusion is that homeopathy is never effective, and the conclusion being drawn is true.
Just because someone does something stupid does not mean anything.
There is no evidence that this woman ever studied homeopathy, or that this whole wet towel thing is even a treatment used by homeopaths.
Living in the same house as a medical doctor does not make me a medical doctor, nor does it make modern medicine responsible for my actions.
Especially in the 1800's where medicine was only slightly better than doing nothing (if you were lucky and it didn't go horribly wrong)
Sympathetic magic is the basis for homeopathy. Like produces like is a fundamental essence of the practice.
There was a case recently where a woman was doing unlicensed "plastic surgery" by pumping rubber cement into incisions in people's butts. Her absolute incompetence can't be reasonably used as a critique against the plastic surgery industry.
There are plenty of perfectly good data points to use against homeopathy practitioners. This case is definitely not one of them.