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It would be hilarious if homeopathy turned out to be right! (To be clear, I don't think that will actually happen, but it would be hilarious if it did!)
by harimau777 4mo ago
It would be hilarious if homeopathy turned out to be right!
(To be clear, I don't think that will actually happen, but it would be hilarious if it did!)
- hyperhello 4mo agoHomeopathic medicine is already recommended by 1 out of 1000000000000000000 doctors.
- etchalon 4mo agoStealing this forever.
- aeonik 4mo agoHomeopathy actually works great depending on what you use it for: I've been trying homeopathic vodka and it's done wonders for my health.
- aweiher 4mo agoYou are microdosing alcohol
- not_a_bot_4sho 4mo agoNice, this comment broke my composure.
- qsera 4mo agoAre those commodity doctors? Or real doctors?
- OutOfHere 4mo agoThere is no basis to suggest that any product uses this property of water. As for homeopathy, it isn't one thing. The effects, if any, can vary greatly by the substance and the concentration. Some low-dilution products work and many high-dilution products don't. There is such a thing as excessive dilution. Anyone who is painting a simpler picture of it is almost certainly wrong.
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- jiggawatts 4mo agoHomeopathy is very literally the singular concept that more diluted medicine works better. Saying that “less diluted works better” is saying the diametric opposite of what Homeopathic “theory” does!
- OutOfHere 4mo agoYou're speaking of classical homeopathy, not practical observation. In practice there are many homeopathic products with varying dilutions, many of which have a meaningful amount of the substance, and therefore the distinct possibility of a biological effect.
- jiggawatts 4mo agoSure, but homeopaths would consider the less diluted ones to be the weaker “medicine”!
- spacebacon 4mo ago[dead]
- OutOfHere 4mo agoPerhaps some very traditional ones would. Most people are just concerned with addressing their symptoms. Rightly or wrongly, homeopathic products are considered medicines, not supplements, and people in general are very mindful of spending money on medicines that don't work.
- kyralis 4mo ago> Rightly or wrongly, homeopathic products are considered medicines, not supplements, and people in general are very mindful of spending money on medicines that don't work. [Citation needed]. People spend enormous amounts of money on junk "cures" and have done for centuries. Homeopathy is just one of the many current such scams.
- aand16 4mo agoDon't know about right, but for a while it worked better than "regular" medicine. At least it wouldn't kill you, when the alternative was intensive bloodlettings and purgatives.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> for a while it worked better than "regular" medicine. At least it wouldn't kill you Homeopathy was invented after the discovery of germ theory [1][2]. So not really. And homeopathy has always suffered from an adulteration problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
- Retric 4mo agoAs an idea sure, but not in practice. Homeopathy was created in 1796, and we still haven’t gotten rid of it. Meanwhile 65 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis The maternal mortality rate dropped from 18% to less than 2%, and he published a book of his findings, Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, in 1861.
- lovich 4mo agoChiropractory is another pseudoscience that started early and has been surprisingly resilient in spite of the lack of evidence. I was flabbergasted when I learned in my 30s that this was a made up medicine by an OG antivaxxer and magnetic medicine proponent due to the fact that insurance would still pay for it when I was a kid at least, and real doctors still recommended it on occasion.[1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_c... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer
- kyralis 4mo ago
- vermilingua 4mo agoYou can be sure they’ll start using this paper as “evidence” all the same.
- qsera 4mo agoEveryone does that. Not only "they"!
- analog31 4mo agoWhile on the topic of weird theories of water, there's always Polywater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
- pryce 4mo agoHomeopathic medicine is a discredited theoretical explanation for a phenomenon that empirical testing shows does not exist. For 'homeopathy' to be right, it would need the to become 'right' twice - first: new data would need to begin existing, and then second: the homeopathic mechanisms would need to become the most plausible explanation for that data
- qsera 4mo ago>empirical testing shows does not exist.. But what are the incentives of those who did those tests? That should be said in the same breath as you say "empirical testing/evidence".
- adrianN 4mo agoImagine the number of citations you could get for a solid double blind study that showed homeopathy to beat placebo. The only better impact I could imagine would be showing that climate change doesn’t actually exist.
- qsera 4mo agoMmmm..the question is..who would fund it. And if someone funded it, who would publish it...
- antoniojtorres 4mo agoIs this a bit? Please state your point clearly instead of conspiratorial innuendo.
- qsera 4mo agoI think the point is clear. If it is not clear to you, you are already beyond help...
- antoniojtorres 4mo ago
- nine_k 4mo agoVaccines is homeopathy working, in a way :)
- qsera 4mo agoWait, wouldn't it just be "Oh, science just made a mistake, and that is how it progresses"... Despite the "consensus" thoroughly "debunking" it conclusively many times... Also, if it ever happens, I think it would be during course of many decades that all the existing "scientists" can save their faces, and new generations won't care about "Science" being wrong once again, despite all the projections of "certainity" back then..
- BLKNSLVR 4mo ago"Water has memory, and whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it." - excerpt from Storm, by Nick Minchin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U&t=353s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U&t=353s The entirety of this song is a listen worth your time. Doubly so if you've never heard of Nick Minchin before.
- qsera 4mo agoWho said it forgets it?
- OutOfHere 4mo agoYour comment is in violation of the rule (applicable to comments): > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Avoid commenting with tangents that have nothing to do with the article. If you don't agree, the site moderator dang can explain to you with administrative action.