Hi Everyone.
So I just did an interview with Homeopathy World Community one one of my books. Resurrection of the Vital Force. This book can be purchased here!
I do hope you all enjoy the interview. You can access it by clicking here.
I also have an interview upcoming with the amazing Eugenie Kruger and her podcast Homeopathy Hangout. I do personally enjoy her podcast greatly, I will post the interview shortly after it airs.
Hi Everyone. I have a new book that I have been working on since December that has been published!
This one is going to be a big one, as it touches on some very controversial themes.
I do hope you all will read it. I will be interviewing on it in the near future.
You can pick up the book here.
Hi everyone! Sorry for the long delay in my writing.
So in recent weeks a new analysis of homeopathy has been published. You can find it here.
This is a remarkable paper. It examined every metanalysis of homeopathy that was available to them. I myself have done a similar exercise in 2019, which you can find here. However, I applied a qualitiative and comparative approach, and the authors of this new analysis have applied a quantitative approach, using statistical methods to combine the effect sizes, risk of bias (which is called meta-bias), and also specify type of homeopathy applied.
They found 6 suitable metanalyses, Linde 1997, Linde 1998, Cucherat 2000, Shang 2005, Mathie 2014 and Mathie 2017.
Using the ROBIS tool for assessing bias in systematic reviews they found both Mathies and Linde 1997 to be low risk of bias, and all others high bias. Using the AMSTAR tool for assessing funding transparency, it was found that Mathie’s trials were the most transparent.
Combining all extractable data, all trials were found to contain effect suggestive that Homeopathy has an effect beyond placebo. Restricting data to all high quality trials, statistical significance was found for every metanalysis except Mathie 2017.
In total analysis in the words of the authors “The available data yield no support for the alternative hypothesis of no outcome difference between homoeopathy and placebo.” This effect was robust when controlled for high trial quality.
This meta-metanalysis does indeed confirm what I have stated earlier in multiple publications, the evidence base for Homeopathy is positive, and disputing this becomes increasingly untenable. This evidence is rigorous, and stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
Hi Everyone. Happy New year!
I must apologize for being absent from my blog recently. My teaching and writing on my new Birds book has taken up all of my time.
However I do need to announce that, due to inflationary pressures, I do need to raise my rates. You can find a complete list of fees here. But in short,my Intakes are now $210 and 30 min treatments are $75.
My apologies for this. I have tried to hold down prices as long as I can.
I hope everyone has a wonderful 2023!!
Hi Everybody
So as many of you know, I have a great interest in Homeopathy research! I have already published on the subject, but I do keep a close eye on the field for new information being published.
One such new study was just published. This is a meta-analysis of homeopathy studies on ADHD. It combined all studies in a single statistical analysis.
Six studies were found, of which all but one were randomized and showed low to moderate risk of bias. Average number of participants was 52. Two studies were against standard treatment, and four placebo controlled.
The results, in the words of the study were: “The meta-analysis revealed a significant effect size across studies of Hedges’ g = 0.542 (95% CI 0.311–0.772; z = 4,61; p < 0.001) against any control and of g = 0.605 (95% CI 0.05–1.16; z = 2.16, p = 0.03) against placebo (n = 4). ” This is a positive effect, showing homeopathy having a therapeutic effect beyond placebo in this condition.
This is quite significant. While numerous Homeopathy studies have been positive, and overall analyses of the entire research field have been positive, when various forms of deception are not employed, the number of conditions with enough research to do a worthwhile meta-analysis has remained low. This analysis is a very worthy addition to that small field, and shows the continued building of the Homeopathic evidence base.
I hope you all have a good day!
Hi Everyone. I apologize for not writing much lately. I’ve had a lot of deadlines lately, but I did write an excellent post I thought you all would like. Please enjoy!
Its very useful to look at overall discourses and their place within the wider social context.
Hello my dears.
I apologize for having been remiss in writings on this blog. I have been occupied recently, but have resolved to return to regularly updating it.
To being with, I wish to wish everyone a late Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Happy New year to all.
I have also recorded a meditation today. It is posted for free on Youtube for anyone to enjoy. You can find it at the address below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUMTPK6khXc
Take care of yourselves!
Hi Everyone.
I wanted to inform you all that I have moved practices. I am still with Optimum Wellness Centres, but the Renfrew Clinic has moved locations We are now at 619 Edmonton Trail NE, a few blocks south of our Old location. Its much nicer and very pretty and shiny.
I have also updated my Google Buisness and my clinic location webpage.
I look forward to serving you at my new location!
Hello everyone.
One of my ongoing projects is the documentation of the disparities between the public funding of Allopathic medicine,often termed conventional medicine, and Naturopathic Medicine. I have already documented the disparity in terms of educational funding in my earlier blogpost. This one will focus on funding for care.
Healthcare in Canada is an immensely expensive enterprise, reaching approximately $7064 per person, 265.5 Billion, or 11.5% of GDP in 2019, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. In this we can see approximately 15 billion in spending on drugs prescribed by Allopathic Doctors (a number which will likely increase considerably in the future if Pharmacare is actually implemented), we see approximately 28.2 billion in direct payments to Medical Doctors. We also see, in 2018 dollars an expenditure of approximately 60.9 billion on hospital based care, which is often exclusively allopathic in nature, even when carried out by other professions, such as nurses and respiratory therapists.
I have chosen these numbers due to their existing before the era of Covid-19, and its distortions of the economy and healthcare spending, and have accepted them as approximately equal, despite existing in different years (2018 vs 2019). I have declined to include spending on things such as public health and long term care, despite these aspects of healthcare being entirely dominated by allopathic professionals as well. 
In total, from the above we see spending of approximately 104.1 billion per year, on allopathic care both in and out patient, and prescriptions.
Naturopathic medicine, in contrast, receives almost no public funding in any province. The sole exception is British Columbia, where a very small amount of public funding exists, which totaled 235 000 in 2012, or approximately 262 000 dollars in inflation adjusted dollars.
In this calculation we can see Naturopathic medicine receiving 0.00025% of the funding of allopathic care, in terms of medical funding for distinct services. Occasional sporadic funding has occurred but as examples like this show, it is often at very small levels, and subjected to intense cultural bias from the media and from some allopathic physicians, who raised considerable objections to Naturopathic Doctors serving in larger publicly funded roles in areas underserved by allopaths.
This is in no way inevitable, but is a deliberate result of policy choice that starve Naturopathic medicine of educational funding, of funding for direct care, and funding for research, which I will cover for a future blog post. All justifications for the current state of funding based on research need to account for the fact of an incredible public subsidy for allopathic research, so that they are able to determine the effectiveness and safety of treatments, one which has not been forthcoming for other segments of medicine.
Other public healthcare systems directly integrate different healthcare worldviews into public health, most notable, the Chinese with Traditional Chinese Medicine, Mongolian and Tibetan medicine included, and the Indian public health system, which includes, Ayruveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Naturopathy and Homeopathy, the famous AYUSH professions. There is no reason, other than cultural standards of allopathic supremacy, that Canada cannot also do the same.
Image Source:https://www.bcauditor.com/online/pubs/775/778
Hi Everyone.
I wanted to announce here that I just published my latest book, 611 pages on the mammal remedies in Homeopathy.
I worked on it throughout the pandemic, and I do think it has some excellent help for the many issues affecting out planet at this time.
You can purchase the book from lulu.com. You can access the physical book here. You can purchase the ebook here.
I would love to hear what you all think!