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> James Randi famously starts out talks swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills. And that's exactly why I posted my comment, because it's wil
by Alex3917 10y ago
> James Randi famously starts out talks swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills.
And that's exactly why I posted my comment, because it's wildly irresponsible to post comments leading people to believe that they can do the same thing and come away unharmed. The fact is that if you chug a bottle of 3x diluted poison ivy oil then you're almost certainly going to die. And not because it wasn't diluted properly, because it had other ingredients, etc.
Most homeopathic treatments on the market today are highly diluted. But not all. And since historically there was more of an even split between high dilutionists and low dilutionists, it's not unlikely that in the future even more low dilution homeopathic products will come on the market. So when you post shit that's going to come up in Google for the next twenty years that's implicitly encouraging folks to try some stunt that could easily get them killed, don't expect to not get called out on it.
- nathan_f77 10y ago> if you chug a bottle of 3x diluted poison ivy oil then you're almost certainly going to die Haha ok, yes, you have a point there. I guess it is really dangerous to assume that all homeopathic remedies are pure water, because some of them aren't actually diluted that much. Some of them still contain poison.