Homeopathetic Canon

[Kahalachan]

Is there an agreed upon consensus on how homeopathy is supposed to work?

Or does each practitioner just make up how it works?

Cause I'm watching this youtube and laughing at the horrible butchery of science and it makes me wonder if this is along the lines of how they all explain it.



Warning: Due to the extreme inaccurate presentation of scientific facts and potential to piss off a rational minded person, viewer discretion is advised.

 

[shandyjan]

Like many other alternative medicines, a different treatment could be given for the same complaint by different woos. I believe Ive read that kind of thing here in Swift in the past year.
OK that can happen with doctors..but theres usually some form of research, or directive. None of them rely on the 'memory' of a drug though!

 

[Akhenaten]

I must restrain myself from posting something stupid about the damage inflicted by a homeopathic canon being really awesome if you don't put a canonball in it.


D'oh

 

[Soapy Sam]

I assumed a homoeopathic canon was a really tiny compact digital camera.
Pinhole lens , 0.00000000000001-0.000000000002mm zoom and a .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 pixel count. *

I may have missed some zeros. Makes no difference.

 

[Akhenaten]

I feel much beter about myself now. Thank you

 

[geni]

Is there an agreed upon consensus on how homeopathy is supposed to work?

Or does each practitioner just make up how it works?

Cause I'm watching this youtube and laughing at the horrible butchery of science and it makes me wonder if this is along the lines of how they all explain it.

There are various approaches with varrying degrees of popularity. "we don't know" is one, vauge comments about enerrgy in the remedies is another. Some go for vibarations (particularly the practical homeopaths with their remedy machines). Some claim it is something to do with structures in the water. Hahnemann thought it might have something to do with magnets.

 

[BTMO]

I must restrain myself from posting something stupid about the damage inflicted by a homeopathic canon being really awesome if you don't put a canonball in it.


D'oh

How about dressing it up in scientificobabble?

The efficacy of a homeopathetic canon is inversionly preposterous to the calibre of said canon.

 

[arthwollipot]

There are various approaches with varrying degrees of popularity. "we don't know" is one, vauge comments about enerrgy in the remedies is another. Some go for vibarations (particularly the practical homeopaths with their remedy machines). Some claim it is something to do with structures in the water. Hahnemann thought it might have something to do with magnets.

And I think that's about as precise as you're going to get.

 

[Nonpareil]

Some time around 1:30... "All the mass in the universe can be compressed into an area the size of a bowling ball, so we can take E = mc^2 and cross out m."
First off, where did she hear that? And second of all, NO. YOU CAN'T. Mass has nothing to do with size.

...morons...buy this stuff... *mumbles angrily, storms out*

 

[BTMO]

Some time around 1:30... "All the mass in the universe can be compressed into an area the size of a bowling ball, so we can take E = mc^2 and cross out m."
First off, where did she hear that? And second of all, NO. YOU CAN'T. Mass has nothing to do with size.

...morons...buy this stuff... *mumbles angrily, storms out*

Oh - it is THAT video! I don't bother watching videos where I am at the moment, network connection is too flaky.

I think there is still a gob of spit on the screen from the last time I watched that one...

 

[bethgsd]

Is there an agreed upon consensus on how homeopathy is supposed to work?

Or does each practitioner just make up how it works?

Cause I'm watching this youtube and laughing at the horrible butchery of science and it makes me wonder if this is along the lines of how they all explain it.


>>I might be laughing if I didn't just read how another dog trainer lost her best dog to paralysis after having him "adjusted" by a chiropractor. And then his fever was relieved by a homeopathic remedy. Yeah, water.

Grumble grumble.

Beth

 

[Andrew Wiggin]

Awww. Everyone beat me to the idea of diluting a cannon to improve it's woo woo boom.

That's what I get for needing to sleep.

A.

 

[Lothian]

YES.

 

[Kahalachan]

Awww. Everyone beat me to the idea of diluting a cannon to improve it's woo woo boom.

That's what I get for needing to sleep.

A.

Hah hah. I figured since canon is used to describe a consensus about fiction it was appropriate. As well as saying homeopathetic instead of homeopathic

 

[Kahalachan]

Also, couldn't a 5 year old test homeopathy with salt water? Dillute saltwater a hundred times or whatever and find out the water doesn't remember salt was in it?

I mean....... homeopathy........WTF and why?!

 

[Mojo]

Is there an agreed upon consensus on how homeopathy is supposed to work?

Or does each practitioner just make up how it works?

Cause I'm watching this youtube and laughing at the horrible butchery of science and it makes me wonder if this is along the lines of how they all explain it.



Warning: Due to the extreme inaccurate presentation of scientific facts and potential to piss off a rational minded person, viewer discretion is advised.

There's a transcript of Dr. Werner's talk here.

 

[fls]

There is a collection of sciency sounding explanations available for use. When you have carefully and thoroughly discredited the one in current use, a new one is abruptly pulled out. Once you have carefully and thoroughly discredited that one, the next down the list is used. At some point, the original explanation will be revived and it will be as though your original careful and thorough discrediting of it never happened. There is no consensus, so as to keep the various "get out of jail free" cards in play.

Linda

 

[Akhenaten]

How about dressing it up in scientificobabble?

The efficacy of a homeopathetic canon is inversionly preposterous to the calibre of said canon.

That must have been nominated already. I'll be making sure. Not sure which spelling wouldn't be pithier though

Awww. Everyone beat me to the idea of diluting a cannon to improve it's woo woo boom.

That's what I get for needing to sleep.


A.

You were the only one to think of homeopathic earplugs weren't you? We all didn't put them in and so didn't hear your canon when it didn't go off yesterday.

It's just that your homeopathic memory didn't remember about it until you didn't read the email I didn't send you.

Hah hah. I figured since canon is used to describe a consensus about fiction it was appropriate. As well as saying homeopathetic instead of homeopathic

It was very appropriate. We aren't, but you did get double the bang for your buck.

That you didn't pay.

 

[Psi Baba]

Warning: Due to the extreme inaccurate presentation of scientific facts and potential to piss off a rational minded person, viewer discretion is advised.

Holy crap! Damn you, Kahalachan! This warning was vastly understated. I could feel the stupid burning through my brain as I watched that. Now I wish I had a Krell machine to undo the damage caused by that video. As soon as she talked about H2O and Einstein in the same breath, I knew it was going to be bad, but I couldn't have imagined how bad. Every single word she uttered was just totally wrong. If wrong was gravity she would be a black hole (about the size of a bowling ball).

 

[Kahalachan]

There's a transcript of Dr. Werner's talk here.

I have to wonder what she is a Dr. of.

I think it's a sickening use of the title to try and pawn off the notion you are an expert in a completely unrelated field.

We all know it's not a PhD in physics.