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How is a person who's not really annoying like I am supposed to notice that's water? And this will just be allowed forever? There's been some progress in the last 15 years of schools closing "degrees" and health programs no longer covering "treatments", but I'm sure it won't be banished from normal stores anytime soon because of money/freedom. Even Google will tell you it's fake but apparently that doesn't matter to people, if they even know they should Google it. So I'll just be here frothing at the mouth people sometimes ask me for products based on one guy speculating wacky ideas in 1800 because germ theory wasn't widely accepted yet, by showing me a picture on their smartphone.
Dr. Charlene Werner, a homeopathy advocate, explains how homeopathy works. Summary:
"Einstein taught us that energy equals matter and light, but because matter can be condensed down to a very small space if you remove all the empty space between the elementary particles, we can mostly ignore matter. Therefore energy is light, and we are all made of energy not matter (or at least so little matter, you can ignore it). Stephen Hawking then came up with string theory, which tells us that all matter (which we can ignore) is made of vibrating strings. Therefore we are made of vibrating energy. All diseases are therefore caused by unhealthy vibrational states, and all disease can be treated by returning the body to a previous healthy vibrational state. This can be done with homeopathy, which extracts the vibrational energy out of stuff and places it in a small pill that can be used at any time."
The more dramatic the method of application, the more effective the placebo, and that is why I will be performing a three part play before giving you this sugar pill.
If you don't get better it means you don't think my acting is good.
it says it's "clinically proven," what horrible twisting of meaning did they do to make that technically not a lie?
Quite easily and honestly actually. If you look at the ingredients it includes saline. Saline is known to reduce nasal inflammation, and help relieve congestion. Irrigation is more effective than a spray, but a spray works. So you will get some relief based on the basic ingredients there that they then added some weird shit too. Like all homeopathic bullshit if there is any value in it then it will be shown in scientific studies even if it isn't everything claimed. See Reiki as a prime example. It can be used for pain relief even if we don't know what it is actually doing. We just know it isn't what the people super into it are claiming it does.
So yeah if you want the actual results just buy a neti pot.
When I get a cold I sometimes get a bunch of steam going in the shower and sit in there a while thinking about where my life went wrong and becoming one with the void
Until the hot water runs out and jolts me back to the real world again
Once upon a time I got dental surgery done in Germany and the people at the front desk gave me a formal prescription for painkillers which i could only get filled at a real honest to god pharmacy and so I went to the pharmacy with the prescription and the woman behind the counter very seriously took my prescription and filled it and sent me off and it was only when I was on the train a few hours later that I looked at the drug box more closely and realised these were homeopathic pain killers.
thank goodness they were only being doled out by medically trained professionals and not handed out willy nilly on the street, can you imagine.
Whenever someone brings up like chiropractic stuff or homeopathy or astrology or just the endless litany of shit that's not real but it would be rude to just bother people about it I just feel sad.
I think I've managed to do the Oh No Ross & Carrie nice-person method of like that's really interesting how does that hold together can you think of a controlled trial that would falsify that thing a few times when pushed to have a chat about it but it's annoying.
I'm fully aware I have a lot of factoids in my brain that are just flatly incorrect and it can take effort to not be defensive when I have to be like ah whoops I think that was maybe from a lore page in a videogame or some asshole on youtube and not a Real Science Fact but it's worth it to reconsider what you know! Other people should also do it!
Whenever someone brings up like chiropractic stuff or homeopathy or astrology or just the endless litany of shit that's not real but it would be rude to just bother people about it I just feel sad.
I think I've managed to do the Oh No Ross & Carrie nice-person method of like that's really interesting how does that hold together can you think of a controlled trial that would falsify that thing a few times when pushed to have a chat about it but it's annoying.
I'm fully aware I have a lot of factoids in my brain that are just flatly incorrect and it can take effort to not be defensive when I have to be like ah whoops I think that was maybe from a lore page in a videogame or some asshole on youtube and not a Real Science Fact but it's worth it to reconsider what you know! Other people should also do it!
Hey now! Chiropractors can offer a small benefit to low back pain if done right. It is almost as effective as physical therapy. I am sure the studies to prove it can help cure cancer or whatever other bullshit those quacks claim will come any day now.
If you use multiple of these things is it like a Zeno’s paradox situation where the cold is like half as long, then a quarter, then an eight, etc?
Like, you never get fully rid of the cold but it shortens it into infinity
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We ended up with some homeopathic eye drops once by accident. Which like, yes, straight saline eye drops can help on their own a little but I was actually looking for some serious anti-allergy relief.
We ended up with some homeopathic eye drops once by accident. Which like, yes, straight saline eye drops can help on their own a little but I was actually looking for some serious anti-allergy relief.
But also, since there's no real guardrails on homeopathic bullshit, I wouldn't trust the saline to not be tainted.
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It's water with soothing eucalyptus
What really complicates things is when a supposed cold shortener actually works for some folk.
If there's no cure for the common cold then what about the ultrarare holofoil cold?
I’m basically unbreakable.
The placebo effect is a hell of a drug.
I am secretly a cathode ray tube monitor so I'm sorry but I can never give you a big bear hug
You’d do it anyway.
Might be the last thing you do…
If you don't get better it means you don't think my acting is good.
Or we can hug shirtless.
Chest hair to chest hair.
The release will sound like Velcro
Quite easily and honestly actually. If you look at the ingredients it includes saline. Saline is known to reduce nasal inflammation, and help relieve congestion. Irrigation is more effective than a spray, but a spray works. So you will get some relief based on the basic ingredients there that they then added some weird shit too. Like all homeopathic bullshit if there is any value in it then it will be shown in scientific studies even if it isn't everything claimed. See Reiki as a prime example. It can be used for pain relief even if we don't know what it is actually doing. We just know it isn't what the people super into it are claiming it does.
So yeah if you want the actual results just buy a neti pot.
Until the hot water runs out and jolts me back to the real world again
Por que no los dos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
thank goodness they were only being doled out by medically trained professionals and not handed out willy nilly on the street, can you imagine.
I think I've managed to do the Oh No Ross & Carrie nice-person method of like that's really interesting how does that hold together can you think of a controlled trial that would falsify that thing a few times when pushed to have a chat about it but it's annoying.
I'm fully aware I have a lot of factoids in my brain that are just flatly incorrect and it can take effort to not be defensive when I have to be like ah whoops I think that was maybe from a lore page in a videogame or some asshole on youtube and not a Real Science Fact but it's worth it to reconsider what you know! Other people should also do it!
Hey now! Chiropractors can offer a small benefit to low back pain if done right. It is almost as effective as physical therapy. I am sure the studies to prove it can help cure cancer or whatever other bullshit those quacks claim will come any day now.
Like, you never get fully rid of the cold but it shortens it into infinity
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I see what you did there
But also, since there's no real guardrails on homeopathic bullshit, I wouldn't trust the saline to not be tainted.
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I just now caught that his diploma is from Evergreen State College, that's a good bit
Like, the contamination would probably be worth more than the pure ingredients