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Related: About this forumScientist gulps down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills to prove a point.
In 2015, millions of people still buy into the 18th century claim that says heavily diluted medicine helps the body fight its own illness. While its clear that this archaic form of quackery doesnt hold up to what we now know about physics and chemistry, its still widely disseminated to the public, bringing in millions of dollars to charlatans utilizing the cloak of the alternative healing industry.
From Medical Daily:
The Science Babe, or SciBabe for short, wanted to expose this practice for the bullsh*t that it is by gulping down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills. Shes also started a petition on Change.org calling for companies like CVS Health and Walgreens to take homeopathic medicine off their shelves.
People will still buy products from your stores, the petition states, but instead theyll buy products that actually work with proven claims.
http://deadstate.org/watch-scientist-gulps-down-50-homeopathic-sleeping-pills-to-prove-a-point/
From Medical Daily:
Homeopathic remedies rely on the false scientific notion that water somehow has a memory, and the more you dilute a medicine, the stronger that memory gets and the more potent the medicine becomes. But in cutting the active ingredient in a particular medicine, all you do is remove the important stuff. Homeopathic medicine does that until the medicine disappears, and it does it on purpose.
The Science Babe, or SciBabe for short, wanted to expose this practice for the bullsh*t that it is by gulping down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills. Shes also started a petition on Change.org calling for companies like CVS Health and Walgreens to take homeopathic medicine off their shelves.
People will still buy products from your stores, the petition states, but instead theyll buy products that actually work with proven claims.
http://deadstate.org/watch-scientist-gulps-down-50-homeopathic-sleeping-pills-to-prove-a-point/
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Scientist gulps down 50 homeopathic sleeping pills to prove a point. (Original Post)
progressoid
Aug 2015
OP
She's doing it backwards - she needed to dilute it 50 times more to increase the effect
Xipe Totec
Aug 2015
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,022 posts)1. she could have swallowed 5000 of them and would have been fine.
If any woo drives me nuts, it is homeopathic woo. Pure placebo effect only if any relief is gained by using them - because there is essentially no "stuff" in them that could possibly do any good!
Just like that useless stuff with the insanely annoying commercial "Head On" - apply directly to the forehead."
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)3. She's doing it backwards - she needed to dilute it 50 times more to increase the effect
Dissolve it in a gallon of water, take a drop and put that in another gallon ...
Powerful stuff, that. (snort, LOL)
immoderate
(20,885 posts)2. An old James Randi routine.
--imm
progressoid
(49,999 posts)5. Randi the great!
Not sure which is cuter. SciBabe's dog or his bearded followers.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)4. Wow
gvstn
(2,805 posts)6. I never understood why medical insurance companies covered this crap in the first place.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)7. Good for her! nt
hunter
(38,328 posts)9. Not a good idea. Actual meds have been fond in "homeopathic" and "herbal supplements"
... produced by unscrupulous manufacturers worldwide, such as diphenyhdramine (Benadryl) in sleep aides, Viagra in herbal impotence remedies... those sorts of things.
People who are willing to scam people one way are likely to scam people another way.