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Homeopathy, Take 1: "What is it about?" [Update]

I wanted to write a long entry about homeopathy because it is a subject that I eigenlich dear to the heart. Perhaps there is some point to even a video.

Each of us knows homeopathic remedies, many of us have already been used and a few even with conventional medicine, they put on a par. What I find is worried, is that it is often based on false assumptions and on a completely wrong understanding of homeopathy. Just ask around once in your environment, what homeopathic remedies are. You will answers such as "natural remedy" or "alternative medicine" to hear. Sooner or later you will be guaranteed one of the Run away and say that homeopathic remedies "not the chemical warfare" and thus would imply that conventional medicine pumped so much chemistry in the patients that they often make more ill than healthy.

Well, what's really behind homeopathy. In principle there are two large golden rules you need to know:

first "Like cures like!"

exactly what means what is produced on a "healthy" patients certain symptoms - strictly according to the dogma of the homeopath - just heal selbige symptoms. This principle, in the literature as "Similia similibus curentur beschrieben, mag auf den ersten, sehr oberflächlichen Blick noch irgendwie einleuchtend klingen. Doch was dieses Prinzip bedeutet, ist vielen überhaupt nicht klar. Stellt euch vor, ihr habt Probleme mit dem Einschlafen. Nach für Nacht wälzt ihr euch stundenlang und bekommt kein Auge zu. Nach einer Woche habt ihr endgültig die Nase voll und ruft euren Arzt an. Seid ihr jetzt bei einem konventionellen Arzt gelandet, dann bekommt ihr vielleicht ein Beruhigungs- oder Schlafmittel verschrieben. Bei einem Homöopathen aber bekommt ihr Koffein! Nächstes Mal, wenn ihr wieder nicht einschlafen könnt hilft vielleicht ein doppelter Espresso oder ein halber Liter Club Mate, vielleicht auch 4 - 5 Dosen Red Bull, zumindest nach homöopathischer Logic. What a "healthy" patient awake makes is to make an awake patient supposedly healthy. This speaks easily, but lacks any common sense.

second The greater the dilution, the more effective the remedy!

homeopaths have the practice to give their money only in very dilute solutions out. And my dear choir, have you any idea of what is discussed here for dilutions. Skilled people are talking about the "potentiation" of the funds. This then goes like this: You
take part active substance - for example, an milligram of caffeine for the sleeping pills - and dilute it in ten Parts of water. Then you shake the solution ten times back and forth ten times to the left and right and ten times up and down, which is homeopathic provision. What comes out at the end of D1 is a solution to the naming to not break. A physicist or a chemist would call this a 1:10 solution. (Do not forget to shake!) Take her now from this solution in turn part and dissolved again in 10 parts of water, you have a D2-solution, that is 1:100. There's still a different scale than the D scale. On the C scale 1:100 homeopathic dilutions are removed. Ie D12 = C6, C2 = D4, etc. But all this is not enough for the homeopath, no! The rule is the more often it passes through this process - the less active substance is so present at all - the more effective will the means.
It is important to know one more thing: you pass the "magical" barrier of a homeopathic solution D23 is one in constant conflict with the Avogardo, this is only one side of chemical molecule in the solution. This means that with a D24 solution only has a chance of 1:10 that in general is still a molecule in the solution. When D25 is the chance of a molecule already at 1:100 and 1:1000 D26 just ridiculous.
The whole thing was in the beginning mainly water and then only water, wird dadurch aber seltsamerweise wirksamer.
So lächerlich das schon für sich ist, wird es erst richtig spaßig, wenn man sich das mal grafisch vor Augen ruft. Hier eine kleine Liste von Potenzierungen und was sie bedeuten:

D 06 -- Ein Tropfen auf das Volumen einer Mülltonne
D 12 -- Ein Tropfen auf 25 olympische Schwimmbecken
D 24 -- Ein Tropfen auf dem Zehnfachen Volumen des Mittelmeeres
D 80 -- Ein Teilchen aufgelöst in allen(!) Teilchen von 100 Universen . (viel Spaß beim Schütteln!)
D 100 -- Eine Lächerlichkeit jenseits von Sinn und Verstand!!

Aber here it sounds for the money-hungry alternative medicine does not occur. Browsed a little bit on the net and you quickly find online shops that you want solutions with a potentiation of D 1500 as a turn on "very effective". I do not think I can draw an adequate comparison. It is not even necessary, so laughable is the theme.

Why homeopathy "works"? Well, homeopathy "works" at all. Everything (prohibiting the term "medicine" here) with homeopathic remedies is reached, the so-called "placebo effect". The mere fact that we take a way that we think of medicine, can trigger an improvement without the funds has contributed to it. Added to this is that homeopaths often take a lot of (well-paid) time for their patients. This extra attention sometimes subconsciously reinforced the placebo effect on patients. What is more, then most of homeopathy is used when the body one way or another with some time to heal itself, a homeopathic treatment to serious matters such as stroke, there is not. So if a patient is better by now, the only "was not any good" and has spent a lot of money for a homeopathic remedy, he will think that the remedy had cured him, even though he has taken only water and his body would have been cured without homeopathy. A large, randomized, double-blind study (the gold standard of scientific tests), homeopathy classifies significantly better than placebo, there is not, on the contrary. A large meta-study (ie, an analysis of many individual studies) found that homeopathic remedies are not significantly better than placebo and certainly can not compare with the standard treatment (E. Ernst, 2002, "A Systematic review of systematic reviews of homeaopathy" see Sources).

tl, dr:
Homeopathy is basically nothing more than a little active substance is diluted so ridiculously strong that most not even a single molecule of active substance in the media is left. In addition, you get straight with homeopathy the active ingredient that causes the same symptoms, to treat you try. Significantly better than placebo, homeopathic preparations shown not to be but can still sell high.


[Update: Now with 100% more references! ]


Sources:
Homeopathy (Wikipedia) & potentiation (Wikipedia)
Two articles on the subject of GWUP: Homeopathy & FAQ homeopathy
A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy (meta-analysis, E. Ernst, 2002)
Homeopathy: The effective promotion of ineffective remedies? (E. Ernst, 2006)
What's the harm? Homeopathy (YouTube user: c0nc0rdance, 2010)
James Randi on "World Homeopathy Awareness Week" (James Randi, 2010)

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INDECT aka "Orwell's Nightmare"

In recent days there have been some messages about IND ECT. The acronym stands for (deep breath!) "In telligent information system supporting observation, searching and de te ct ion for security of citizens in urban environment ".
Of course we speak in the title and the project only increased security but who reads a few lines later comes quickly to the limits of all that we as Rule of Law and Constitutional know. Here's a monster in the process is to arise, which not only has the possibility but even the task to scan entire populations and to monitor. act

Nominally it is an "intelligent information system to support to monitoring, search and detect safety of citizens in an urban environment. "According to the EU Commission Project at least 11 million euro cost. The main objective of the project seems fully automated pooling of monitoring mechanisms of all stripes from across the European Union to be. These include not only the monitoring of public space by CCTV cameras in pedestrian zones, but also the application of "a large number of microphones, developing its own search engine for permanent and automated monitoring of web sites, videos, forums, Usenet groups, web servers , blogs, email, P2P networks, social networks (Facebook, Flickr, etc.) and of course personal computers, greet Federal Trojans can, to the use of whole squadrons (I shit you not!) Unmanned surveillance drones.

on the official website of some of the project status reports are available publicly for download. After some voices in the blogosphere "made use of these files, some of them disappeared, especially the document D 1.1, a general summary of the project. It seems to clear and concise. The documents appeared elsewhere but then again, among other things, they were leaked to the Pirate Party (see references). A further response to the public outcry on the part of the project was - instead of openness, transparency and education - the establishment of a cynically titled "Ethics Board" what more a public relations office for INDECT is, who decides in the future, what information is disclosed to the public, and what not, so that employees can better concentrate on their work on the project.

In the meantime disappeared documents (9.4) has drawn even on the truly unfortunate fact that the methods of criminals whom the police are usually one step ahead, as financial police with lower and handicapped by bureaucracy agents must accept as the villains and, unlike their counterparts in law and must respect human rights.
The implication that in diesem Satz mitschwingt, lässt einem einen kalten Schauer den Rücken herunter laufen. Wird hier ein Fuß in die Tür Gesetzt, in Zukunft - natürlich nur bei besonders bösen Terroristen - die Menschenrechte außen vor zu lassen?

Anwendungsgebiete für das inzwischen für den Big-Brother-Award nominierte Projekt sind vielseitig. Denkbar sind Suchanfragen wie "Zeig mir eine Liste aller ..." mit einer beliebigen Verdachtsgruppe als Ziel (Muslime, Gewerkschafter, Personen mit Konten im Ausland, Personen, die Häufig nach Holland fahren (Verdacht auf Drogen) oder Menschen mit ungesundem Lebenswandel, Besucher der Seite XY oder oder oder.) Die Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten für so ein "Wunderwerk der Technology "are endless. The European Data Protection Supervisor has not, of course connected to this project, he was not even informed about it (see this interview ).

is in cities, even with use of the" intelligent "evaluation of camera and microphone data suspicious behavior be tracked and analyzed. It is also used by "profiling". That is, a few dozen police officers were questioned as classically because of me looks like a shoplifter, and the people that apply to this description may be monitored more closely. The resulting potential offenders would then identified, filtered, scanned, reviewed and are arrested in doubt. Under "suspicious behavior" includes, for example, these activities:

- race, run, in the wrong direction move
- Driving too fast, wrong
- groups of more than X people
- Luggage forget
- For too long at the station or airport sit
- lounging around, shouting, swearing

With this project, of course, created entirely new categories in terms of "holistic" surveillance of people. He knew of this research project, would George Orwell - author of "1984" - turn in his grave. The rule of law concepts such as "presumption of innocence" or "court-proof evidence" of this project are completely pushed aside. In its place comes the mother of all data leeches comb through with their sacred mission in the name of law and order to Europe after all troublemakers. In the sense of freedom and democracy as a project is unthinkable. Indect must be stopped.

Finally, a quote:

abandon the willing, their liberties for more security deserve neither liberty nor safety.
(Benjamin Franklin)

tl, dr:
The EU research with millions on a software monitoring program called INDECT, dass mit vollautomatischer Analyse vom Daten aus dem Internet und der Überwachunginfrastruktur die Sicherheit erhöhen soll. Dinge wie Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Unschuldsvermutung lösen sich schnell in Rauch auf.

Quellen:
Infoseite bei der Piratenpartei über INDECT
AG Indect bei der Piratenpartei
Dokumente zu INDECT, die der Piratenpartei zugespielt wurden
Offizielle Website des INDECT-Projektes
Offizielle Projektbeschreibung der EU-Kommission

Clumps Of Lotion Like Mucus

Two Mosaikstückchen to Thilo Sarrazin

Heutzutage kann man sich ja nirgendwo mehr blicken lassen, ohne eine eigene Meinung zu dem Troll Nummer Eins dieser Tage have to: Thilo Sarrazin
front: I have not read the book and I have no plans to read it. Therefore, I do have no great opinion of the book. I know two important small ideas that come into the whole debate is often too short. You can therefore see this post as my personal footnote to the current debate:

first Islam is to blame anyway!

I've heard, Sarrazin leads back many integration problems on the Islamic religion. I am amazed that it then Iranian immigrants have very little to no integration problems. Most speak excellent German well and many even have a German Abitur. Could it be that mainly intellectuals from Iran, came to Germany and from Turkey? After all, we have
paid at that time the guest workers (where the word already makes clear that it will not start on time are welcome.) Premiums yet, because we cheap, uneducated workers wanted in the country. They had to speak German or not well integrated especially that was not politically desirable. And that's why you've built up, no possibility of integration. The message to the immigrants was clear: You are not one of us, you should not do so, but you can be happy for us to do the dirty work.
Sunday and now that they are there, and have the audacity not disappear immediately after work again, is stirring the world to know that the "Stay here" have not built perfectly. I am surprised that people wonder about it. And that children learn the meaning of the word "integration" of course first of its parents, is surely clear.
is therefore clear that no hasty "Foreigners Out!" or the introduction of a German "Green Card" can be a quick solution. It must once again the stony way to go, through openness, tolerance, dialogue and the creation of good infrastructure for the integration of education and encounter.

2. 82 % der Muslime tun dies, 38 % das Gegenteil

Im Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung hat Sarrazin in einem Interview (siehe Quellenabteilung) zugegeben, dass er für einige seiner Behauptungen keine Quellen habe und es solche auch nicht geben würde. Mit anderen Worten: Er hat sie erfunden.
Eine Dreistigkeit an sich. Wer in einem Buch von 70 % jener un d 90 % jener Minderheit Sachen behauptet, impliziert eine Grundlage für seine Behauptungen. Eventuell eine Studie des statistischen Bundesamtes oder dergleichen. In dem Lichte, dass Sarrazin aber einfach nur "in die richtige Richtung deuten" wollte, müssen wir uns meiner Meinung nach eine Frage stellen:

How seriously can we take someone who claims to be interested in a serious discussion, and then for his own views simply invents statistics, rather than to stick to the facts?

I believe does not mean that the media vortex Sarrazin held solely in order to earn a fortune on his book. Money he can spend more than he and I admire him not to be so greedy, as he sat just more money to get this going would be trouble. But of course I can be so wrong.

I also consider it to Sarrazin like any other troll: not merely feed!

tl, dr:
In my opinion you can take Sarrazin, at best, only half serious when he admits to invent statistics and to sell them as facts to be in his book, even giving law. In addition, no quick slogans help to solve the (real) problem of integration, which is generally arose only because we have failed to operate long before true integration. Key words here are education, tolerance and dialogue.

Sources:
"Sarrazin builds up his stats for yourself!" via placebo alarm
The relevant passage from the Süddeutsche Zeitung
"What is it to Sarrazin's theses?" via Tagesschau.de
article on trolls via Wikipedia

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The mosque at Ground Zero

In recent days, the debate about the so-called Ground Zero mosque in America is spilled over to us, so that even the nightly news reported on it. This one should actually both 'Ground Zero' set and 'mosque' in quotation marks. The image that comes when you hear these words is in fact completely wrong. One thinks instinctively of a giant building entirely made of white stone mosques with domes and minarets directly across the street from the place where the twin towers on 11.09.2001 the World Trade Center collapsed and today is one big construction site yet. Anyone who has a vivid imagination thinking, maybe even a few women in black burkas or men with turbans, which mingle with the New Yorker.

An image in the mind's eye is of course great to wake up the American religious right and proper to make angry, even though nothing of it corresponds to reality. And so it happens. Day after day demonstrate again angered conservatives, like incited by Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly or some other tea party icon and complain that

first It is not a mosque!

In Wirklichkeit geht es vielmehr um ein islamisches Gemeinschaftscenter. Es wird natürlich auch kein Gebäude aus weißem Sandstein dort entstehen. Die Initiative hat ein altes, leicht heruntergekommenes Hochhaus für einen Spottpreis aufgekauft, dass seit 2001 leer steht. Dieses Hochhaus soll renoviert werden und unter anderem eine Gemeinschaftsküche, ein Schwimmbad und einen Basketballplatz bekommen. Die einzige Verbindung zu einer echten Moschee besteht in den Gebetsräumen, die die obersten zwei Stockwerke einnehmen sollen.

2. Es geht nicht um Ground Zero!

Auch soll das Gemeinschaftscenter nicht direkt bei oder gar auf Ground Zero entstehen, sondern good for two to three blocks away, so easily 500 meters. From Ground Zero from the Center can not see. This does not disturb the conservative protesters. They consider it GBar for Ultra method we created that so close to Ground Zero created anything, could this have to do with Islam. Since 1970 and before the opening of the World Trade Center, there are four blocks from Ground Zero another Islamic Community Center. In contrast, no one protested at that time and therefore it seems to be no problems today. Also, it seems, the divine warrior in defense of good old values \u200b\u200bas not to disturb that three blocks from Ground Zero is flourishing a strip club. And the only shows how little this objective Debate is all about. It is only right incitement, intolerance and xenophobia on the one hand and advocacy of simple justice and common sense on the other.

Especially the Americans with their really wonderful constitution should really know yet how important freedom (including and especially religious freedom) in a healthy company. But as is unfortunately so often freedom, tolerance and solidarity be immediately thrown overboard, when the Conservatives once something does not fit into that stuff.

also Obama has spoken on this topic. In a Ramadan dinner at the White House - which by the way seit den Zeiten von Thomas Jefferson regelmäßig dort abgehalten wird - betonte er, ohne seine eigene Meinung zu dem Projekt zu äußern, dass die Initiatoren dennoch selbstverständlich jedes Recht hätten, ihr Gemeinschaftscenter zu bauen. Sie verletzten niemandes Freiheit damit, wenn sie ihr eigenes Geld nehmen, sich ein Hochhaus kaufen, dass offensichtlich schon lange niemand mehr haben wollte, und es dann mit ihrem eigenen Geld nach ihren eigenen Vorstellungen renovieren und später nutzen.
Der konservative Fernsehsender Fox News und seine Anhängsel haben ihm natürlich wie gewohnt sofort das Wort im Munde gedreht und behauptet, Obama hätte sich für die "Moschee" ausgesprochen. Als Obama dann am nächsten Tag darauf hinwies, er hätte nur auf die Freiheit derjenigen verwiesen, die das Center bauen wollen, wurde diese Äußerung wiederum als Meinungsänderung unter öffentlichem Druck dargestellt, um Obama Unsicherheit unterstellen zu können. Sogar unsere Tagesschau berichtete in diesem Ton von der Debatte. Die ganze Rede Obamas ist in den Quellen verlinkt, macht euch am Besten selbst ein Bild.

Das beste Argument der religiös/recht en Demonstranten ist jedoch das, was auf dem Bild rechts gezeigt wird. Weil die islamischen Diktaturen im Osten keine Kirchen oder Synagogen erlauben, wäre es ja nur logisch, dass Amerika keine Moscheen erlauben würde.
Dass Amerika inzwischen auf seine eigene, hard-won constitutional whistles and dear to the moral notions of theocratic dictatorships and monarchies oriented, oppress women and dissidents executed and they had declared a few years ago the "axis of evil", actually a pretty big headline should have been. ;)

That you understand me wrong! I am against the construction of a mosque in Manhattan! I am also against the construction of a synagogue in Berlin or Paris in a church or a temple in Rio de Janeiro. I think for such nonsense should any money be spent. But if there are people who want to use their own money for it, is her right and no one to stop them. But as Voltaire said?

I like to share your opinion, but I would give my life for your right to say it!

tl, dr:
It is not a mosque, it is a community center. From Ground Zero, one can not even see it. For 40 years, there are only two blocks away, another center that apparently no one bothers. All unmasked the debate rather than mixed religious agitation with hot air. Whoever wants to spend his money to set up this Center has every right to do what most Americans in the "Land of Freedom" is actually best should know.

SOURCES:
Google Maps link to the planned location
English Wikipedia article about the project
Obama's speech at Ramadan Dinner (Iftar)