Download or read book Homeopat a Va a ser que no written by Arturo Quirantes Sierra and published by Arturo Quirantes. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Como físico y miembro de la comunidad científica, estoy hasta las narices de la homeopatía. No, nada personal, sólo me irrita que una terapéutica sin base científica alguna pretenda hacerse pasar por una actividad seria y honrada. Compran una cátedra aquí, hacen encuestas allá, presentan evidencias científicas que no lo son, y cuando todo les falla se parapetan tras los ciudadanos honrados y sus “pues a mí me funciona.” De momento no me han hecho nada personalmente, salvo quizá aquella vez que un médico quiso colarle un Coffea Tosta a mi esposa para que mi loco bajito número dos pudiera dormir tranquilo. El problema es que, aunque no me meta con ellos, ellos se meten conmigo y con los míos. Ganan millones con productos que no son sino agua y lactosa puras, subvierten el método científico, inducen a error a personas que no saben del tema. He intentado explicar por qué la homeopatía no funciona. Ya no sé cuántos artículos he escrito, cuántas veces he repetido lo obvio. La respuesta es siempre la misma: “sí, pero a mí me funciona.” Mi reacción es gritar a todo pulmón “¡NO, NO TE FUNCIONA!,” hablarle del placebo, de los ensayos clínicos amañados, de la falsa publicidad, de las promesas de calidad que se esfuman a golpe de BOE. No me resigno. Y, puesto que ya hemos dedicado mucho tiempo a defendernos, quizá sea hora de pasar a la ofensiva. La comunidad científica y médica, la gente de batas blancas que aglutina el saber de nuestros días y en la que la sociedad confía para que le diga la verdad, ya hemos callado durante demasiado tiempo. No he escrito este libro para ganar dinero. Lo he escrito para mostrar la verdad de la homeopatía; para que puedas ver por qué no funciona; para que no vuelvas a caer en el amimefuncionismo. Y, no menos importante, para mostrar que la homeopatía no es una terapia natural y buenrollista que cuenta con cada vez más adeptos. Mis detractores (que los tengo, y cada vez más) me dirán que soy partidista. Por supuesto que lo soy. Tomo partido por la ciencia, por la verdad y la justicia. Sueno como el Llanero Solitario, pero es lo que pienso. A lo largo de estas páginas te mostraré las razones de los partidarios de la homeopatía, y también las de sus detractores. Espero haberlo escrito lo bastante claro como para que la lectura se te haga sencilla. Si, a pesar de todo, encuentras que algún capítulo resulta pesado de leer, sáltatelo. Lo importante es que disfrutes este libro. Para eso lo he escrito.
Download or read book Herbalism Phytochemistry and Ethnopharmacology written by Amritpal Singh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between the ancient art of herbalism and the emerging sciences of ethnopharmocology and phytopharmacotherapy, this book highlights the major breakthroughs in the history of the field and focuses on future directions in the discovery and application of herb-derived medicines. Implementing the concept of reverse pharmacology, it inte
Download or read book How to Think about Weird Things written by Schick, Jr. (Theodore) and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making How to Think about Weird Things a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.
Download or read book Bioelectrodynamics and Biocommunication written by Mae-Wan Ho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of papers on the role of electrodynamical activities in biocommunication is presented in this volume. It provides research findings, practical applications and theoretical investigations linking phenomena as diverse as the sensitivity of organisms to ultraweak ELF electromagnetic fields, noninvasive imaging by magnetic field tomography, coherent liquid crystalline mesophases in living organisms and coherent light emission from biological systems. The volume begins with chapters on the historical perspectives and the biophysical background necessary for understanding bioelectrical phenomena. This is followed by chapters dealing with the biological effects of external electromagnetic fields; the detection of endogenous electrodynamical and related activities and their practical applications; and finally, theoretical perspectives and overviews. It is recommended for undergraduates, graduates and research scientists in all disciplines who wish to be informed of the emerging discipline of bioelectrodynamics.List of Contributors: M Bischof, J J Chang, A S Davydov, D Edmonds, A French, C Gross, Q Gu, J Haffegee, M W Ho, A A Ioannides, R P Liburdy, W P Mei, R Pethig, F A Popp, P T Saunders; C W Smith, T Y Tsong, U Warnke, T M Wu, C L Zhang.
Download or read book The Emerging Science of Homeopathy written by Paolo Bellavite and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated reissue of their classic Homeopathy: A Frontier in Medical Science, Italian physicians Paolo Bellavite and Andrea Signorini thoroughly examine previous and current literature on the science of homeopathy in order to discover answers to the elemental questions about homeopathy. Bellavite and Signorini engage in a fascinating discussion of the biophysics of water, biological effects of electomagnetic fields, chaos theory, and fractals.
Download or read book History of Telemedicine written by Rashid Bashshur and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of Telemedicine provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the evolution of telemedicine from ancient Greece to the present time. It places the development of this field in the context of the never ending quest for providing equitable access to health care and re-casting the medical care landscape, while trying to assure quality and contain cost. The book describes the origin of modern telemedicine in experiments such as those by Willem Einthoven's 1905 long distance transfer of electrocardiograms through the pioneering era of teleradiology and telepsychiatry of the 1950s, its coming of age in the 1970s, its maturation in the 1990s, and finally the recent transformation and adoption by the mainstream." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE.
Download or read book Foodscapes written by Rick Dolphijn and published by Eburon Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After traveling through the cities of Hangzhou, China, Boston, U.S.A., Bangalore, India, and Lyon, France; after 107 conversations within these cities, and after studying the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze, Rick Dolphijn explores the realms of food. Traveling throughout the world AND the world of philosophy, he opens up four different spaces (the four different parts of this book) in which various experiments take place in thinking how we relate to the edible; connecting the edible to such concepts as the self, the event, the State, health, dietetics, territoriality, capitalism, and nomadology, to name just a few. He shows us how the micropolitics of food is capable of showing us everything. Thus, it performs an ethics of life"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Ultra High Dilution written by P.C. Endler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of editing this book was born in the winter of 1988/1989. Christian Endler was organizing the workshop 'Wasser und Information' (water and information) in Austria [1], and Jürgen Schulte was working on a publication of his results on atomic cluster stabilities and long-range electromagnetic interaction in atomic clusters. It was Franz Moser from the Technical University of Graz who brought these two together. After a talk that Moser had given in Bremen, Schulte explained to hirn his ideas about clusters and long range interaction, and his concern about reliable theories and experiments in research on ultra high dilutions (UHD) and homoeopathy. He was suggested to be a speaker at the Austrian workshop. Reviewing the contributions of this workshop and the current literature on UHD and homoeopathy, especially the PhD thesis by Giesela King [2] and the excellent survey by Marco Righetti [3], we decided to work on a book in order to critically encou rage more scientists to work and publish in this field with a high scientific standard. What we had in mind was a useful contribution to the goal to lift research on UHD and homoeo pathy to an internationally acceptable scientific standard, to encourage international scien tists to work in this area and to establish UHD and homoeopathy in academic science. Delayed by our individual academic careers in our specific fields, and delayed by lack of funds it took us about four years to finish this book.
Download or read book Rational Changes in Science written by Joseph C. Pitt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers; "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains; modo maxima rerum, tot generis natisque potens - nunc trahor exui, inops", to cite Kant for our purpose, who cited Ovid for his. Like every fashion, ours also has its paradoxical aspects, as John Watkins correctly reminds in an essay in this volume. Enthusiasm for science was high among philosophers when significant scientific results were mostly a promise, it declined when that promise became an undeniable reality. Nevertheless, as with the decline of any fashion, even the revolt against scientific rationality has some reasonable grounds. If the taste of the philosophical community has changed so much, it is not due to an incident or a whim. This volume is not about the history of and reasons for this change. Instead, it provides a view of the new emerging image of scientific rationality in both its philosophical and historical aspects. In particular, the aim of the contributions gathered here is to focus on the concept around which the discussions about rationality have mostly taken place: scientific change.
Download or read book Children s Types written by Frans Kusse and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clinicians and Educators Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and Alternative Healthcare Professions written by Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference text on the complementary and alternative medicine professions written by leading educators from each discipline that is meant to support students, practitioners, patients and academic and policy leaders in helping to create appropriate and respectful collaboration between the disciplines to provide optimal health care.
Download or read book Materia Medica Pura written by Samuel Hahnemann and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunting Mister Heartbreak written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • An exhilarating, often deliciously funny and "beautifully written voyage of discovery" (Chicago Tribune) that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to America. • From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur—"Heartbreak" in English—wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails "renting" an elderly black lab). He sees the Protestant work ethic perfected by Korean immigrants in Seattle—one of whom celebrates her new home as "So big! So green! So wide-wide-wide!"—and repudiated by the lowlife of Key West. And on every page of this peerlessly observant work, Raban makes us experience America with wonder, humor, and an unblinking eye for its contradictions.
Download or read book Honey written by Rajesh Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar made by bees. Honeybees collect a liquid secretion from flowers, called nectar, and take this back to their hives. It is an appreciated natural gift to humanity derived entirely from honeybees. Honey is the by-product of nectar collected by bees from the flowers, with some digestive enzymes produced by the honeybees themselves. Honey: A Miraculous Product of Nature summarizes the current status of honey, it’s uses and related aspects. This illustrated volume describes use of honey in traditional medicines, i.e. Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani by acting as a preservative and nourishing agent. Also, other properties like digestibility, palatability, deliciousness, refreshing, thirst quencher, stomachic, anti-obtrusive, expectorant, anti-oxidative, anti-tussive and blood purifier are explained in beautiful manner. The role of honey in improving eyesight, strengthens gums and teeth and it’s use in jaundice, spleen enlargement, sore throat, chest diseases, sexual debility, renal and cystic calculi, intestinal worms, heart diseases and leprosy is very well described. The compiled knowledge from range of bee scientists, Honey: A Miraculous Product of Nature aims to provide broad knowledge on honey to the researchers, apiculturists and students to continue their work on honey and honeybees.
Download or read book Plato s Cratylus written by David Sedley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this reappraisal of the dialogue, Professor Sedley argues that the etymologies which take up well over half of it are not an embarrassing lapse or semi-private joke on Plato's part. On the contrary, if taken seriously as they should be, they are the key to understanding both the dialogue itself and Plato's linguistic philosophy more broadly. The book's main argument is so formulated as to be intelligible to readers with no knowledge of Greek, and will have a significant impact both on the study of Plato and on the history of linguistic thought.
Download or read book Integrative Pediatric Oncology written by Alfred Längler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a broad spectrum of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices employed in pediatric oncology worldwide, with a special focus on the methods widely used in Western countries. It is a scientifically based, practice-oriented handbook that will meet the needs of pediatric oncologists working in medical practices and hospitals. An introductory section includes a comparative overview of current CAM use in pediatric oncology in different countries. Commonly used CAM methods are then discussed in a series of chapters that provide a theoretical description of the method in question, followed by more practically oriented information, including scientific data if applicable. Special attention is paid to the issue of how to integrate each method into conventional pediatric oncology. The closing parts of the book consider aspects of CAM requiring further development, such as institutional research, and provide a road map on establishing integrative pediatric oncology worldwide.
Download or read book Esperanto English Dictionary written by Montagu C. Butler and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
