King Charles has appointed a homeopath. Why do the elite put their faith in snake oil? | Martha Gill

It will not end, it will only begin. The monarchy under the queen was very popular. As Charles took over, it lost a bit of its prestige, as Charles has too much bad publicity in the last three decades. But it was okay to let people turn away für some years as it was clear that there will be a Second Lady Diana Moment as soon as William and Kate will take over. People Loooove them. They will be the reason the boulevard press will survive the next three decades. Mark my words: Monarch in the UK is not dying but will just awake new under W+K - especially in miserable times like these. People cling to that shit like it is their own live, because some people include it into the center of their own life.

Oh wow! Its full of value for shareholders!

My brother once made an interesting point about why Steve Jobs chose fake medicine. What he said was, from memory, "Every other time in his life that people told him what he was doing was a bad idea that would end in disaster he ended up making a few billion dollars."

As happy as I am to see any royal loose their power, in whatever way is necessary, this will encourage a lot of people to continue to believe that sugar pills will heal them.

This is the likely truth. Prolly has like 40 specialists trying every type of treatment under the sun.

The minor saving grace of homeopathy (I can't believe I'm saying this), is that it can give hope, and the downstream effect of positive emotion can help people recover more quickly. (link)
Where this falls apart, are cases where the money being charged for this positivity are extortionate, where people are encouraged to only seek alternative medicine, and where the effects are treated as something other than helping you feel better.

It's downright distressing when you see somebody forgoing treatment that has a good chance of actually curing things, because someone is actively selling them on homeopathic benefits far greater than feeling better.

Edit: I just realised, I'm not on my home instance, I'm on a skeptic board. So I will clarify, I do think it's a bunch of quack, but belief in it may help some people.

Even if it's just one other "treatment" it's still bad. Not just because it's a waste of money, but there can be interactions. Certain foods change how drugs act, and who knows what weird remedies they would suggest that are harmful.

Then if this quack is on the team of specialists, the real doctors have to either waste time listening to garbage, or waste time trying to convince Chuckles to ignore the garbage.

Not to mention the fact that it's possible that they might not make certain suggestions when they know a scam artist is throwing doubt into the actual scientifically backed process.

When people say "why not try everything?" this is why. You can't follow a real treatment plan and psudo-nonsense at the same time.

the worst part is that many cancer patients will now be seeking homeopaths because the royal family can't be wrong

What's crazy is that his cancer had a high survivability (iirc one of the only pancreatic cancers that are not a death sentence).

quite literally