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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Beth Landau-Halpern: Coming Out – as a homeopath

The post Beth Landau-Halpern: Coming Out – as a homeopath by Anarchic Teapot first appeared on Plague of Mice.

There’s offensive and then there’s offensive. It’s unpleasant enough that homeopaths such as Landau-Halpern take others for idiots, pushing their ridiculous and pointless nostrums for all kinds of malaise, real or imagined. It’s downright out of fucking order that she should try to hijack the problems of a minority group in an attempt to portray herself as a martyr and hero.

Witness this raging brainshite:
This blog is my “coming out” statement – my coming out of hibernation, where I retreated for safety after a long year of being pilloried for being a homeopath, talking about homeopathy, being involved in research in homeopathy, and teaching about non-conventional paradigms of medicine. My antagonists were a small, but vocal and nasty minority from print media, social media, and the scientific community. 

You might be tempted to a tiny feeling of pity for her. Don’t give in to it. This is not some … Continue reading