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Stephen Benedict-Mason is a psychologist, a former university professor, syndicated newspaper columnist and radio talk-show host. See full bio

February 18, 2009, Social Life

Comments on "Less Is More?"

Less Is More?

By Stephen Mason, Ph.D. on February 18, 2009 in Look At It This Way

I stopped in at the health food store to get some special ginger jelly from France that my wife likes. In fact, it's all I ever buy there. How can you take seriously a place that sells homeopathic remedies? Read More

Thank you

Submitted by Becky on February 18, 2009 - 8:59am.

Thank you for calling out the pure bunk logic behind homeopathic remedies. Our best hope is to link actual science with spiritual beliefs. They don't have to be at odds if we can give credence to what is really causing change. It's important for doctors to listen to thier patients but giving out water as a cure turns this relationship to mere trickery.

Staying Well

Submitted by Stephen Benedict-Mason on February 26, 2009 - 11:01am.

While homeopathic therapies are especially silly, it’s important to keep in mind that the need for any therapy should be suspect. The human body has been designed to run reasonably well over its allotted life span in exactly the same way that evolution has engineered all living things - from ants to zebras. Genome analysis can find predispositions for all sorts of scary ills but it usually takes an equally scary lifestyle to bring about disaster. All Things in Moderation is probably the best mental/physical prescription ever written.