I once knew a homeopath who tried to kill himself.
He took a massive underdose.
I can't tell if this is an actual story or a Mitch Hedberg style joke.
It's a joke. If it was serious, it would use other words while adding up to the same meaning.
Lol. I had a chemistry prof in university that every year, when teaching dilution, mixed up a solution of arsenic that was 2x the lethal dose and then diluted it over and over and over and then drank the water.
He's building up resistance so his wife can't poison him.
Reminds me of James Randi eating handfuls of homeopathic sleeping pills.
RIP Mr. Randi
Before Randi's retirement, JREF sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a prize of $1 million to applicants who could demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
You can imagine how many zeros of millions they paid out
Do they not clue themselves in when they all suggest completely different solution?
There are just so many solutions
Take your pick!
Why the hell would they let facts get in the way of anything?
Nope. If you watched the yelper episode of South Park, specifically the scenes where the yelpers are all gathered together talking over each other, it shows exactly how these people see the world.
Never.
What is funny is their remedies would only have had an effect if it was done right away. Still wouldn't have treated tetanus, but as far as wound management some of that does something.
Homeopaths are derrainged and do more harm than good with traditional medicine.
Seems like it would be easier and probably even cheaper to take your kid to the doctor than to gather and store all those materials and learn how to use them, even assuming the efficacy of both options is the same, which it definitely isn't.
I bet a lot of people peddling homeopathy just think it's herbs and water, and don't know the initial theories behind it like "the law of similars" (thinking something can be treated by a substance that causes similar symptoms) and miasma (outdated idea on how diseases spread), or the fact that it's often so diluted to the point where whatever was originally there is essentially gone.
At least some natural/traditional remedies are legit, but still see an actual fucking doctor over anything serious.
At least some natural/traditional remidies are legit
Yes. But that's not Homeopathy. Holistic/Herbal medicine is valid (for the most part). Heck, most medicine started out as our ancestors realising that this or that plant eased pain, or lowered inflammation or a hundred other things.
Modern medicine is mostly just a distillation of those age old cures into more convenient pill form.
But let's be really really clear here, Homeopathy is NOT "traditional medicine". It's a scam. This notion that because an infection makes your eye red, and an onion also makes your eye red, therefore a drop of diluted onion water will cure your eye infection is just a straight up insane at best, criminal at worst.
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work?
Medicine
― Tim Minchin
My mother got lockjaw, but she was also born in '45. It sure didn't stop her from screaming at me though. I feel bad for the lunatic antivaxers' kids. Destroying their kids' lives because they've been tricked into distrusting facts.
Christ, I hope this is a troll.
Well, this happened to a 6-year-old. It's rough reading:
His opisthotonus worsened, and he developed autonomic instability (hypertension, tachycardia, and body temperatures of 97.0°F–104.9°F [36.1°C–40.5°C]). He was treated with multiple continuous intravenous medication infusions to control his pain and blood pressure, and with neuromuscular blockade to manage his muscle spasms. A tracheostomy was placed on hospital day 5 for prolonged ventilator support. Starting on hospital day 35, the patient tolerated a 5-day wean from neuromuscular blockade. On day 44, his ventilator support was discontinued, and he tolerated sips of clear liquids. On day 47, he was transferred to the intermediate care unit. Three days later, he walked 20 feet with assistance. On day 54, his tracheostomy was removed, and 3 days later, he was transferred to a rehabilitation center for 17 days.
The boy required 57 days of inpatient acute care, including 47 days in the intensive care unit. The inpatient charges totaled $811,929 (excluding air transportation, inpatient rehabilitation, and ambulatory follow-up costs). One month after inpatient rehabilitation, he returned to all normal activities, including running and bicycling. Despite extensive review of the risks and benefits of tetanus vaccination by physicians, the family declined the second dose of DTaP and any other recommended immunizations.
espite extensive review of the risks and benefits of tetanus vaccination by physicians, the family declined the second dose of DTaP and any other recommended immunizations.
God fucking damn it how the fuck are people this dumb?!
This isn't dumb. This is psychotic.
I feel like the family should be liable, and the child taken to a family that's not dangerously stupid.
That makes me nauseous to read. I hope the hospital called CPS.
Naw bro, everyone knows that bentonite clay and raw local honey will cure anything and with enough electricity you also get a boxed lunch.
Proof that child abuse can also happen to adults.
This whole movement is a problem that solves itself if properly contained
These people were vaccinated as children, they’re not going away. They are killing their children, however.
I'm surprised nobody suggested that he sleep with an onion in his sock.
Tiger balm on penis will cure anything. Prove me wrong.
Upvoting in the hope that a scraper will pull this comment to train an AI model with, remember me when this comes back around in 2034
That's just standard practice anyway. Not even worth mentioning.
I think this is too perfect not to be a troll.
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