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  • If the theory of homoeopathic medicine (and I use the word medicine in the sense of fraudulent quackery for the terminally gullible) was true in that substances which cause symptom X cure disease X and substances that cause symptom Y can cure disease Y then the best cure for alcoholism and alcohol poisoning would be a large G&T and the best cure for high cholesterol would be a large bacon butty. Come to think of it... A large G&T and a bacon butty? Sounds good to me.

  • Given where the water has come from, if you think about it (and perhaps you'd rather not) using the argument of supporters of homoeopathy, ALL their preparations are in fact treatments for diarrhoea

  • nice! whats the name of that song by the way?

  • Homeopathy can cure dehydration if taken in liquid form.

  • @DrNancyMalik

    Evidence based homeopathy? All it has to show for itself is placebo. You must have a homeopathic 30C succussed brain.

  • I would like to respond to ThomasJAckerman. Even though I believe he was being funny, I would like to point out that dihydrogen monoxide is H2O which is plain water. This alternate name for water was used on Penn and Teller's show BullS*it to fool suspecting people to sign a petition to ban plain water.

  • @mcwill98 Sorry I meant "unsuspecting people"

  • This demonstration was clever and all very well, until you consider that this purportedly harmless 'homeopathic vodka' they were peddling was almost certainly laced with dihydrogen monoxide -- which was most likely added during their supposedly sterile dilution process, to boot.

    I, for one, would like to see a ban on all homeopathic products containing dihydrogen monoxide or whose preparation uses it in any way.

  • Thanks for this. I knew homeopathy was nonsense and I knew why, but I hadn't realised the dilution factors involved. Looked up Avogadro's number, did some sums...

    The chance of having even a single molecule of "active ingredient" in a 100mL sample at 30C is roughly equivalent to winning Powerball (Australia's steepest-odds lottery at approx. 1 : 27.5 million) 5 times in a row.

  • "If you believe in the homeopathic process, then what does that say about sewage treatments?"

  • 5 people who buy heavily overpriced water disliked this video.

    (sorry for the clichéd comment, couldn't help myself :p)

  • Find were they are selling homo drugs and rape them with their own products

  • I'm actually a big proponent of harmless placebo medication but it shouldn't be on store shelves next to real medicine. It should be proscribed to hypochondriacs by their doctors to prevent them from taking real medicines when they aren't sick. It certainly shouldn't be marketed as a cure for anything health-threatening.

    I'd be perfectly fine if it was just suckering people who wanted it for 'relaxation', headaches, tiredness and insomnia.

  • @Kantankeris I agree with your first paragraph but not your last line. Nobody should be suckered into anything, especially if they're paying for a product that's supposed to do something but doesn't.

  • My only quibble with this is that there's no way those guys could move that fast. Who expects us to believe that 2 guys could accomplish all of that within 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

  • @jbenjamgmail they forgot to mention the homeopathic methenpetamines they were tweakin before they hit "play"

  • It's time for another one of Penn & Teller's Bullshit experiments!

  • Four people are drunk on QED Vodka.

  • This is an awesome demonstration!

  • James Randi once said that all water on earth must at some point have been in contact with about all kind of substances that exists here on earth and thus all the substances must have been diluted a lot = the most powerful "medicine" there is. So a normal sip of water should be more than enough to cure you for anything if the homeopaths are right...... sigh..... well , people who believe in the homeopathic scam are obviously too stupid to understand this simple fact!

  • @Slurfs

    Haha, ok. Why don't they just take all of the medicine products off the shelfs, being as you just proved that Water is the best medicine.

    Good logic.

  • @AxelControl You, sir, are a moron. He was saying that water is not the best medicine.

  • Fantastic vid! I think I have a new standard response for people defending homeopathy - I'll believe in homeopathy when people who are shit-faced drunk can pass a sobriety test after drinking homeopathic vodka!

  • Look up Avagadro's constant

  • I think I would have gotten the joke straight from the "QED" in QED vodka.

    Still pretty funny

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  • 4 million quid of our tax going on this shite each year!

  • Research money for theat? Talk about money down the drain! (pun intended)

  • Very good video; I liked the music as well.

  • I think the clip board has a similar placebo effect.

  • I guess according to homepathic principles this should be the perfect remedy for alcohol intoxication and hangovers.

    Why pump the stomachs of teenagers who have drunk dangerous amount of alcohol when you can ust give them a healthy chug of this miracle medicine? Surely it is a much less invasive method. I suggest some homeophathy supporters should go ahead with the first trials on their kids...

  • YEEEEEAAAAAH! MAKE THAT WATER VIBRATE!! SHAKE IT BITCH!! *turns up stereo*

  • I learned of this experiment through the JamesRandiFoundation.  I told him that a few years ago I lost a friend to breast cancer, because she believed one of these "snake oil salesmen." It's a disgrace. I can't believe the NHS would actually fund this crap. It's literally killing people by denying them REAL medicine.

  • @Hereticbooks

    Well, that's the new NHS for you Patient 'Choice' is king. Even if that choice will do nothing for you and lead to your death.

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    There's nothing wrong with having "options," unless as you say, one of them kills you. You'd think the hospitals or doctors would say something like, "by the way, the homeopathic remedy is plain tap water," or something.

  • @Hereticbooks

    It all depends on what those options are. If the choice is between drug A, which will cure you over a week, has few side effects, and cost £100 per dose and drug B, which cures you in three days, has no side effects and costs £1K per dose, then who will chose A? Especially as GP's don't tell you what the drugs cost the NHS.

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    Right. Well, at least in the U.K. people HAVE health coverage (not like here in the U.S. where we have none). But you'd think it would cost the NHS MORE money in the long run if treatment A fails, and then treatment B is used. I think you get what I mean. Are you British BTW? I'm assuming you are. (Suppose I could check your channel. LOL)

  • @Hereticbooks

    Yeah I'm British and we won't have the NHS for too much longer. We have an old school tory in power now who is drunk on the idea of using the financial 'crisis' to destroy the entirity of the public sector and to take the country private (where it can be bought for a song and you don't have to worry about the poor voting you out of power). The NHS is being disbanded as we speak and the region I live in is looking at the blackest time in generations...

    But the point I was making-

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    was about the myth of choice. Choice is something I want in icecream and beer. Healthcare is not. I want to go to the Doctor when I'm ill and for them to make me well. The only time choice should come into play is when there are different valid treatments with varied outcomes and risks.

    Choice between having an operation or not is one thing - Choosing which sergeon at what hospital and whether he uses drugs or crystals to sedate me is just more bullshit.

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    I've lived in Britain, and what I saw there was a very effective health care system. I saw a doctor arrive to administer to my elderly mother-in-law, at her home, at 11:00 at night. Being American, I was gobsmacked! Here, the administrations of health care institutions don't give a shit about you unless you have excellent insurance. But the insurance companies, when you become sick, cancel your policies. Fantastic, isn't it?

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    My husband is british as well, and he said that that story has been around for years. It's talked about, but if it were ever attempted, there'd practically be anarchy and blood in the streets. It's always a concern when conservatives are voted in, because britain, as in the U.S., get to watch conservative lawmakers bitch and complain about government spending, not giving a damn about working class or poor people. I don't think the NHS is going anywhere. Where do you live?

  • @Hereticbooks

    I live in the North East, and we are looking at some realy bad times here. The problem we have at the moment is that so much of our media has been co-opted by the right, by murdoch specifically, and the great myth of the all consuming deficit has been swallowed. Do a little reading on what Cameron is doing to the NHS and you will see why I am so terrified right now.

    In essence the NHS is being broken up into competitors in which private enterprise will compete to be providers.

  • @AnonEyeMouse This is it... If there is NOT rioting in the streets, we will have no NHS come 2015. It has come to that point - they are finally trying to do it. It was political suicide before, but now, with the coalition government in place they can use the Lib Dems as a bullet proof vest. The previous Gonvernment, so called labour, is guilty of starting the ball rolling with PFI schemes, so can't criticise too strongly... Most of the press will wring their hands saying 'but the deficit' .

  • @AnonEyeMouse

    North-East? That's weirdly coincidental, as I lived briefly in the Teeside area. Stockton, to be precise. I will do a little research with my partner about this. He's pretty certain that nothing will end up happening to NHS aside from a few low caliber bullet-holes. But I'll take your challenge...probably tomorrow evening when he is home. He, (my husband) just got back (in November) from spending a year in Billingham caring for his mother. Isn't it weird, though, ...(cont)

  • ...(cont.)... that what is supposed to be the moderate party (labour), turns out to be the catalyst for disaster? Isn't it also weird that asswipes like Murdoch can be so dreadfully influential that we're facing this bullshit on opposite sides of the pond? It's nearly got me convinced of a global right-winged conspiracy. Ironic that the Right continuously spews the mis-begotten rhetoric, claiming that all the press is liberal. Peace

  • "We spoke with doctors who recommend many of the ingredients."

    What, hydrogen and oxygen?

  • @thepatcat dont forget the trace amounts of minerals that are found in water. Unless they used distilled water of course.

  • @thepatcat

    Many recommend 8 doses of 100ml of Dihydrogen Monoxide every day to facilitate correct functioning of the body.

    Bloody Quacks. :P

  • I do not drink alcohol at all, but I think I would find no problem drinking a whole bottle of QED Vodka

  • shur itz jus watur but teh vibrashuns r styl insyd thar nd getin dem realy DRUNK.

  • Was there no-one who thought it was good?

  • Great video - but as MarvolYT says, the audio mixing (speech/music balance) is awful.

  • Great !!!

    @Dreamager: actually they DO sell water ... as a cure for anything ...

  • Great stuff of course, but... who was in charge of the sound mixing? (in other words did really nobody during the making of this vid notice that the obnoxious music is 30C louder than the speach?)

  • Science FTW!

  • Just plain brilliant

  • Brilliant!

  • Loved it. Especally the marketing bluff - so much like the real thing.

  • Silly homeopathy. It is like talking to a brick walls when it comes to believers though. Hopefully this will help convince some of them that they are wasting their money and even endangering their own lives by refusing real medicine.

  • brilliant film . one thing though . how much vodka would be in a 6c solution ?

  • The only quibble I have with this is that it should be marketed as a cure for drunkness if following homeopathic reasoning. And homeopathic coffee would get you drunk. Thank god they don't make homeopathic water though, or that'd kill you from dehydration :/

  • @Dreamager In the footage we do actually mention that it's good for sobering you up - it's a lifestyle drink a bit like Red Bull etc. In the longer cut and in the promotional material we made, this was more clear.

  • @Dreamager Diluting water in water? What are you, Xzibit?

  • @Dreamager

    They would sell people air in a bottle and call that diluted water.

  • @Dreamager Dunno how you'd make homeopathic water - what would you dilute it with?

  • @soundofgeek you'd still dilute it with water. Don't worry about the technicalities of how that would work and how the process only 'remembers' the substance the diluter wants it to remember rather than anything previous in the millions of years of the The Water Cycle. Water is a very clever thing and it'll only 'remember' what you want it to ;)

  • @Dreamager Of course - I keep forgetting that this is really just magic. ;-)

  • @soundofgeek

    Alcohol!

  • @Dreamager Actually they do make homeopathic water. By creating water by seperating H and O and then recombining it then ... diluting into regular water....

  • Nice one guys, we need more public awareness like this. I was in Boots the other day and was shocked by the range of homeopathic products on sale. BTW, they also sell magnetic copper bracelets, and on the packet is written something like "widely accepted as an alternative, natural remedy for pain relief". Unbelievable! If it had said "efficacy proved via independent, clinical, double-blind trials" that would have been different.

  • I too have been drinking this, and homeopathic malaria treatment, and homeopathic asthma 'cures', and the homeopathic treatment for everything in the world, I've been drinking tap water every day of my life!

  • Good work guys - looking forward to the 2011 campaign.

  • I've been under the influence of homeopathic vodka since i was just a babe. My folks were heavy drinkers too and i just can't go without it....

  • Good work!

  • Great stuff guys. I'm wondering when you plan to start selling this Vodka because I'd buy a bottle

  • I think you missed the point of homeopathic medicine you take something toxic and dilute to the point of being 'not' there just like homeopathic is is sugar pills with a hint of toxic not anything else.- I mean placebos work so why not if you believe the sugar works.

  • @elucid3 but what you said makes no sense

  • @elucid3 I don't think this is trying to make the point that placebos shouldn't be allowed to be used, if they work then great. The problem comes when people choose to use a placebo over something that is more effective because they've been lied to, and it is then funded to the tune of millions of pounds.

  • Top stuff guys.

  • This is so great. We need to clone you guys and put you all out on the case around the world... However, we don't want to dilute the awesomeness too much.

  • It's sad that people waste their own money on homeopathic nonsense but it's outrageous that health insurance covers it.

  • Very well done, guys. ;-)

  • Perfect. I thought the: it's water! - yes it is - they sell this on the NHS arc was brilliantly done.

    Shared on Facebook.

    And see you in February - I have a ticket!

  • I think I love you.

  • Fantastic work! I am a Skeptics with a K listening and I've been wondering if I would be able to see this footage. Thanks for posting it.

  • Homeopathic Vodka - it is make of win...win and water.

  • Awesome - it worked for me :)

  • Great video! Keep it up. Rid the NHS of this hokum.

  • Fantastic stuff! Shame I can't make QED in February!

  • Just brilliant!

  • Good work peeps!

  • Hahah,

    That was AWESOME!

    I loved it, especially the bit after the credits xD

    Well done to everyone involved, especially Mike and Marsh for having the patience to ultradilute the vodka!

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