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I will be mad about homeopathy until I die

CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
edited June 8 in Social Entropy++
Look at this shit!
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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.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    it says it's "clinically proven," what horrible twisting of meaning did they do to make that technically not a lie?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I bought that one. The one with zinc! And then realized the one with zinc can apparently fuck your sense of smell *and* doesn't work

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_y4-z-kDqQ
    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."

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The whole vitamin industry is a questionable bunch of shit.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Are you actually mad, or were you just mad once and the water in your body remembered it?

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    i hate when i vibrate incorrectly

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  • NobeardNobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
    Homeopathy is never going away because magical thinking is hardwired into our brains.

  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    But it's not just water, Coinage!

    It's water with soothing eucalyptus

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Take your cold-shortener, honey - who knows how long that cold would be otherwise!

  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    A cold-shortener implies the existence of a cold-longener

  • NobeardNobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Take your cold-shortener, honey - who knows how long that cold would be otherwise!

    What really complicates things is when a supposed cold shortener actually works for some folk.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    So

    If there's no cure for the common cold then what about the ultrarare holofoil cold?

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I only wear clothes with magnets sewn into them.

    I’m basically unbreakable.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    A cold-shortener implies the existence of a hot-longener

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Nobeard wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Take your cold-shortener, honey - who knows how long that cold would be otherwise!

    What really complicates things is when a supposed cold shortener actually works for some folk.

    The placebo effect is a hell of a drug.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I only wear clothes with magnets sewn into them.

    I’m basically unbreakable.

    I am secretly a cathode ray tube monitor so I'm sorry but I can never give you a big bear hug

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    I only wear clothes with magnets sewn into them.

    I’m basically unbreakable.

    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…

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    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.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    I only wear clothes with magnets sewn into them.

    I’m basically unbreakable.

    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…

    Or we can hug shirtless.

    Chest hair to chest hair.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    I only wear clothes with magnets sewn into them.

    I’m basically unbreakable.

    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…

    Or we can hug shirtless.

    Chest hair to chest hair.

    The release will sound like Velcro

  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    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.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    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

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Are you unbreakable or are you just stuck to a metal bench

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Are you unbreakable or are you just stuck to a metal bench

    Por que no los dos?

  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    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.

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    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!

    We're all in this together
  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    if you used homeopathy then being mad about it until you die wouldn’t actually be that long

  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    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.

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    it's upsetting how mainstream astrology has become

  • TerrierTerrier Registered User regular
    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

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    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.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Unfortunately, our healthcare system is so fucked up, the lack of regulations regarding homeopathic remedies is just a drop in the bucket.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Unfortunately, our healthcare system is so fucked up, the lack of regulations regarding homeopathic remedies is just a drop in the bucket.

    I see what you did there

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    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.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Tainted saline is my favorite medical thrash metal band

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    I bet they sound awesome but I wouldn't put them in my eyes either.

  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    McHoger wrote: »

    I just now caught that his diploma is from Evergreen State College, that's a good bit

  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    I feel like there's *almost* nothing you can do that would be cheaper than just mixing tap water and table salt

    Like, the contamination would probably be worth more than the pure ingredients

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