Comments on: The Vega test – a spectacular rip-off.

By: Science-Based Medicine » IgG Food Intolerance Tests: What does the science say?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:27:50 +0000

[...] it comes to food intolerance testing, blood tests are just the start. Other methods used include vega testing, the K-Test, hair testing,and applied kinesiology. But the blood tests are enjoying new [...]

By: AndyD

AndyD — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:15:39 +0000

Is it even possible, by definition, to look into your subconscious mind – even if you knew where to find it? Surely the very instant you find it and start looking into it, it becomes part of your conscious mind – doesn’t it? It’s a paradox worthy of Schrodinger, to be sure.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:22:28 +0000

@Beardmore99, nobody believed” in the Higgs Boson – it was hypothesized to exist, scientists went looking, and they have found the best evidence to date that it probably exists. Science does not deal in belief, it deals in evidence.
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@Dustin, I’m not sure where my unconscious mind is (I don’t think science does either) but even if I did it would not make the Vega machine do anything of value. To my “self created reality”, my reality is based on well – just that – reality. Because of science I know that when I get up in the morning I’m not going to float away, thanks to gravity. When I want to travel long distances, I get on a plane (designed by scientists) not a floating carpet – even if I believe in it, it’s not going to take me 14,000 km. Perhaps you might like to address that question to yourself considering you typed your response into a computer onto the Internet – all designed using science.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:31:17 +0000

Your obviously a negative and pessimistic person with a slightly inflated ego. That can be easily seen with your sarcastic responses to all of your readers. No real professional or anyone who gives advice or opinions on anything achieves results or accomplishes anything with the way your going about it. So, why not take a step back, and look into the subconscious mind to maybe reveal to you the self-created reality you live in, which really effects everything you do. If science is that, maybe unbiasedly and scientifically leave the personality out of things

By: bigbug

bigbug — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:56:16 +0000

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

By: Beardmore909

Beardmore909 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:23:56 +0000

I like many was and in some ways still am sceptical about alternative therapies. The turning point for me came when my little girl had the first of her inoculations and within 24 hrs after developed dry skin patches on her forehead, arms and legs. This later developed into full blown eczema. Our GP examined her and sent us away with some E45 creme which is basically moisturizer. She would scratch herself awake at night and draw blood, we had to resort in tying her hands to the cot to stop her harming herself. After 3 months of this we were recommended to visit a local homeopath who examined her and then prescribe 1 solitary pill to take. As a lot of you who have commented on this site can imagine my reaction to this however she took the tiny pill and within 2 days all of her eczema had completey disappeared.
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My daughter was 6 months old at the time so I doubt she would have experienced any placeebo effect. It also could have been a complete coincidence that her eczema totally cleared up within 48 hrs of taking the homeopathic remedy which I doubt.
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Lets face it there are somethings that cannot be easily explained that are out there, the acceptance of which is often decided by what is percived to be the most safe for a person to mentally invest in.
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As a parting shot I bet all of you guys beleive in so called dark matter and Higgs Boson paticle even though there is still absolutley no evedince of its existance after billions of dollars have been spent trying to prove its existance. A little hipocritical perhaps ???

By: David Mullally

David Mullally — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:15:34 +0000

2 registered medical doctors prescribed codeine, acetominophen, anti-vertigo/nausea and 2 antacids for what I felt was excessive ear wax, which was making me crazy. They blamed it on “bipolar disorder”. How scientific.
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The chiropractor adjusted my jaw and the top of my neck, and I suddenly had 36 hours of relief. It seemed obvious that the time honoured and clinically accepted (yes they are registered doctors too) manipulations had a positive effect on something to do with my ear / eustachian tube being blocked/irritated. I used common sense and bought and used an over the counter ear flush and it worked. The phlegm cleared from the ear and into my mouth. Relief.
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“Scientific” registered medical doctors were the money grubbing “charletons” (as you refer the money makers to be)in this and many other cases that you disapprove of and look down on. This medical worshipping and the continual lie of “scientific” and evidence based treatment by a cronie network is what the QUACK watch should aim at. Your essays are utterly despicable, as Daffy your cousin would say.
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Keep on quacking and preaching science instead of acknowledging the uncommon property of common sense. Sorry, but chiropractic works for the same neurological reasoning of nsaids, except that manipulation reduces mechanical irritiation of a nerve where nsaids are just analgesic. Combinations of chiropractic and medicine are effective, but maybe you don’t like clinical results. Proper use of Vega and Acupro yield better results than your medical friends seem to produce, those who are busy thinking of a new benz or their handicap. Your efforts on steering patients to your narrow minded way of thinking can deny patients comfort and well being. Saying “buyer beware” or “don’t rely on just a single opinion” would be helpful. To me, you are a slanderous and defamatory sour grapes cry baby who wants it his way or nothing.
What do you do for itchy balls? Scratch them? You are hired.

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:18:46 +0000

We only believe ‘experts’; but the main thing they are good at is getting a piece of paper saying they are experts. A piece of paper does not heal. Most practitioners are human and can make mistakes, this does not mean that the technology is wrong. How many car drivers can say that the car caused the accident and not their driving. My mother had cancer and was given 3 months. She went on a diet, had acupuncture and died 18 years later of a chest infection she caught in hospital after breaking her leg. So much for MD’s and western medicine.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:15:52 +0000

Oh, by the way, I think the touch lamp that’s bolted to a motel bedside table could give a better diagnosis! Afterall, they work on the same electronic principle. Conductivity, capacitance and combined resistance.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:12:08 +0000

Exactly!