If Homeopathy Beats Science

A satirical sketch from 'That Mitchell and Webb look'

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Homeopathy
• pseudoscience
• David
• Mitchell
• Robert
• Webb
• look
• SGU
• Skeptics
• Guide
• Quackery
• James
• Randi

[ChipArgyle]

Homeopathy: evidence beyond a doubt that people in need will believe anything they're told.

[drzoidburgrocks]

If he had used the purple-tinted quartz he would have suvived...

[NeutralExistence]

@williamwilson666

Pray tell what your response is in regards to?

Kind of seems like you got a hard-on for me out of nowhere.

[williamwilson666]

@NeutralExistence Actually it was a single insult, and quite adult. Although this is already a great deal more than you're worth. I only hope that, when a life threatening injury or illness befalls you, you retain the strength of your convictions, for the sake of the gene pool.

[NeutralExistence]

@williamwilson666

I suppose you have nothing to add other then childish insults?

[williamwilson666]

@NeutralExistence I'm sure you have been informed of this in the past, but you are an idiot. I offer the sum of your comments in relation to this video as documentary evidence.

[NeutralExistence]

@Setzuo

I fail to see why you guys have such problems producing what I asked for.

homeowatch . org/history/oscillo . html

Clearly what you say is true, however You Tube does not function as a form of scientific "peer review", and I cant link to You Tube comments to prove a point.... Really I feel like I stepped into a Church, and told them God isn't real.... All I wanted was documentation.

[Mullahgrrl]

Personally I think homeopathy got popular back in the day when ordinary medicine was actually more likely to kill you than no treatment at all.

[Setzuo]

@Setzuo

Google "law of infinitesimals". This is a core principles of homeopathy as stated by homeopathic practitioners and companies themselves. It disproves itself.

[Setzuo]

@NeutralExistence

Homeopathic remedies are so extremely dilute that most do not contain a single atom of their claimed active ingredient. The most popular homeopathic remedy, oscillococcinum, is based on a dilution of one part duck liver to 10^400 parts of water. 10^400 is the number 1 with 400 zeroes after it. To make such a dilution, you’d have to mix a single molecule of duck liver with more matter than exists in the entire known universe.

[NeutralExistence]

@Setzuo

I never once stated that the FDA was responsible for the body of evidence for medical claims. However they do have the power to force them to put a "contains no active ingredients" label on all Homeopathic "medications". So like I stated, you should send in some reports to the FDA to clear up this problem, since you are so sure of your claims. While you are at it might want to check out some of the other "medications" the FDA has allowed to masquerade as healthy.