Friday, September 2, 2011

EU mad cow cure

EU Parliament votes to spend millions to cure cows by homeopathy:
The European Parliament ... agriculture committee has decided that the European Union will spend 2 million euros for homeopathical treatment of farm animals. ...
A hilarious primer on homeopathy [via Lubos' comment thread]:






3 comments:

Alain said...

At the risk of being a lone voice, I confess to having seen homeopathy work for both people and livestock. It is not a cure-all and end-all, but it is effective for certain things. Will it be effective in this case, I do not know but am willing to wait for the results.

melvin said...

I had a family member who lived in Surrey B.C. who died from this horrific disease 3 years ago so I am biased. I would try almost anything to deal with this disease!

JR said...

I'm skeptical of the utility of homeopathy except as a placebo. I'm open to the possibility that there's something else going on but as far as I know there's a dearth of a) plausible theory and b) properly controlled experiments.

Maybe some of those 2 million euros will go towards credible scientific investigation.