[Kletiomdm]

It is a scam.

And it might not do much harm for a lot of people but do we.think it's fair to accept it next to medicine if we know that there are also people who will not try cancer treatment or delayed do to some healer who thinks that can also heal cancer?

I don't accept this and the current vaccine crisis shows how bad it can be to accept bullshit as medicine.

I'm also lost on what you think this shared added to your mothers life? Taking homeopathic things did what? Gave her positive memories?

I really don't get it. A nice walk in the park probably gave her real joy.

[gumby]

She was my mother in law and she turned to these after scientific medicine (which pretty clearly extended her life for many years) could do nothing more for her.

TBH I am not sure she really had a good grasp of the difference, but she definitely went for the standard of care and diligently followed their recommendations and advice while she could.

[dann0]

Obviously, I can’t speak for this person or their mother, but there is a desire to find a miracle cure, or even a way to provide a feeling of control in an otherwise hopeless situation.

I think there are ways to do this that aren’t exploitative like homeopathy is.

It’s evil to prey on the sick and the dying for profit. Homeopathy should be illegal.

[jelliclesfarm]

You don’t get it because she wasn’t your mother. Show some respect.

[gumby]

I suspect I would have felt differently had she jumped there first à la Steve Jobs.

She only ended up down the homeopathic pathway when other alternatives had been exhausted and on that basis I am glad it was available to her and consider it a good thing.

[jelliclesfarm]

Steve Jobs found out about his cancer in 2003. During a CT scan for kidney stones. He was seeing a doctor. He died in 2011. He was one of the few people to have his genome fully sequenced and got gene targeted therapy from Switzerland in 2009.

He only refused surgery and not modern medicine. He even had an under the radar liver transplant(probably jumped the queue and hence the article mentions ‘under the radar’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j... )I doubt if he opted for homeopathy(and homeopathy doesn’t claim to cure cancer or congenital issues that require surgery. It only treats symptoms.)

[..] Jobs’ cancer had been discovered by chance during a CT scan in 2003 to look for kidney stones, during which doctors saw a “shadow” on his pancreas. Isaacson told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night that while the news was not good, the upside was that the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured.[..]

The article also said that he waited 9 months for the surgery instead of immediately as it was thought to be a slow growing cancer and he was reluctant to be ‘cut open’. How many people with pancreatic cancer like Steve Jobs had survived as long as he did..now that’s a data point.