I once knew a homeopath who tried to kill himself.
He took a massive underdose.
I can't tell if this is an actual story or a Mitch Hedberg style joke.
It's a joke. If it was serious, it would use other words while adding up to the same meaning.
Lol. I had a chemistry prof in university that every year, when teaching dilution, mixed up a solution of arsenic that was 2x the lethal dose and then diluted it over and over and over and then drank the water.
He's building up resistance so his wife can't poison him.
or silly Sicilians
Reminds me of James Randi eating handfuls of homeopathic sleeping pills.
RIP Mr. Randi
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Do they not clue themselves in when they all suggest completely different solution?
There are just so many solutions
Take your pick!
Nope. If you watched the yelper episode of South Park, specifically the scenes where the yelpers are all gathered together talking over each other, it shows exactly how these people see the world.
Never.
The point of postmodernism is that there is no truth. And if everything is opinion then only strength matters.
What is funny is their remedies would only have had an effect if it was done right away. Still wouldn't have treated tetanus, but as far as wound management some of that does something.
Homeopaths are derrainged and do more harm than good with traditional medicine.
Seems like it would be easier and probably even cheaper to take your kid to the doctor than to gather and store all those materials and learn how to use them, even assuming the efficacy of both options is the same, which it definitely isn't.
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Most likely less expensive too. Essential oils are stupidly expensive.
Because of what I have to admit is brilliant marketing. The 'essential' in essential oils just means 'essence of,' which is a perfectly valid, if dated, use of that word. However, because the modern connotation of 'essential' is 'necessary,' people convinced themselves that they need it. It's obviously misleading, but not in a way that's actually illegal. It's both genius and fucking terrible.
The dtap shot is even easier. Its either free with insurance or around $20 and you only need it once a decade.
I bet a lot of people peddling homeopathy just think it's herbs and water, and don't know the initial theories behind it like "the law of similars" (thinking something can be treated by a substance that causes similar symptoms) and miasma (outdated idea on how diseases spread), or the fact that it's often so diluted to the point where whatever was originally there is essentially gone.
At least some natural/traditional remedies are legit, but still see an actual fucking doctor over anything serious.
At least some natural/traditional remidies are legit
Yes. But that's not Homeopathy. Holistic/Herbal medicine is valid (for the most part). Heck, most medicine started out as our ancestors realising that this or that plant eased pain, or lowered inflammation or a hundred other things.
Modern medicine is mostly just a distillation of those age old cures into more convenient pill form.
But let's be really really clear here, Homeopathy is NOT "traditional medicine". It's a scam. This notion that because an infection makes your eye red, and an onion also makes your eye red, therefore a drop of diluted onion water will cure your eye infection is just a straight up insane at best, criminal at worst.
"For the most part" is probably being generous. Yes, there are naturally occuring medicines which have paper observable physiological effects of the human body, but, the fundamental difference between modern medicine and "traditional" or "herbal" medicine is the truth-seeking framework in which it exists. Herbal medicine which stands up to scientific rigor is just medicine.
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work?
Medicine
― Tim Minchin
The people who believe homeopathy are either cons and grifters or gullible people who believe what they are told and wouldn't dare look further than the testimonial and cherry-picked articles.
Understanding the history and theory are so much further than the Facebook post they read that convinced them.
I know universal healthcare wouldn't get rid of them all, but man, would there be so much less.
Homeopaths are derrainged and do more harm than good with traditional medicine.
This is a true statement in that homeopaths do nothing good and do some harm. It's a waste of money and time. Their system is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality in multiple ways ("like cures like", water memory, etc.) and provides no benefit unless you count a little extra water intake as a point in their column.
This whole movement is a problem that solves itself if properly contained
Poor kid though.
yea,
I dont mind adults getting themselves killed, but no kid deserves to die due to their parents being an idiot.
These people were vaccinated as children, they’re not going away. They are killing their children, however.
Tetanus shots are only good for 10 years. If your only tetanus vaccine was in childhood, you're unvaccinated for it.
It just sucks that innocent children are hurt (or worse) in the process
Proof that child abuse can also happen to adults.
I'm surprised nobody suggested that he sleep with an onion in his sock.
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That's just standard practice anyway. Not even worth mentioning.
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Unfortunately the antivaccine BS doesn't subscribe to one political ideology
I read a statistic that in the US 37% of conservatives and 9% of liberals didn't get vaccinated. So it favours the right more.
It used to be largely confined to the weirdo left and the conspiracy theorist right. Now it's all over the place.
Conservatives are deadly fucking stupid. I don't mind them killing themselves, but killing their children is just horrific to witness. Conservatives should not be permitted to be parents.
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