Saying homeopathy was more advanced than regular medicine at the time is akin to saying rain dancing was more advanced than irrigation of crops from a polluted

Saying homeopathy was more advanced than regular medicine at the time is akin to saying rain dancing was more advanced than irrigation of crops from a polluted water source. At least the latter method is based on the assumption of certain evidenced-backed empirical principles. The former method has no correlation or effect on reality under any assumption beyond pleasing the rain gods and associated bullshit.