I once knew a homeopath who tried to kill himself.
He took a massive underdose.
Reminds me of James Randi eating handfuls of homeopathic sleeping pills.
RIP Mr. Randi
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You can imagine how many zeros of millions they paid out
Not vaccinating your children is child abuse
Amen.
Agreed. I'm willing to allow that adults should have the right to refuse vaccination, as stupid a decision as that may be, but very much in the same way that adults have the right to starve themselves. You do not have the right to starve your children, and vaccination should be seen in the same way (it should also never come at a direct personal cost; vaccines solve public health problems, they should be paid from the public purse).
Do they not clue themselves in when they all suggest completely different solution?
There are just so many solutions
Take your pick!
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.
The point of postmodernism is that there is no truth. And if everything is opinion then only strength matters.
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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.
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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like "the law of similars" (thinking something can be treated by a substance that causes similar symptoms) and miasma (outdated idea on how diseases spread), or the fact that it's often so diluted to the point where whatever was originally there is essentially gone.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.
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work?
Medicine
― Tim MinchinAt 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.
The people who believe homeopathy are either cons and grifters or gullible people who believe what they are told and wouldn't dare look further than the testimonial and cherry-picked articles.
Understanding the history and theory are so much further than the Facebook post they read that convinced them.
I know universal healthcare wouldn't get rid of them all, but man, would there be so much less.
"Thank goodness water has memory."
-Elsa
Homeopaths are derrainged and do more harm than good with traditional medicine.
This is a true statement in that homeopaths do nothing good and do some harm. It's a waste of money and time. Their system is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality in multiple ways ("like cures like", water memory, etc.) and provides no benefit unless you count a little extra water intake as a point in their column.
I'm convinced 90% of it is the people think homeopathic means "home remedy" because it has the word home then some kind of mediciney word.
Every person in my life that has mentioned homeopathy thinks it's that and actively resists the explanation.
It's a shame because it gets a bad rap but there's a lot of things that can be healed using more natural methods.
I got rid of scabbies by taking cayenne pepper baths and an other product, I forget the name but it affects their reproduction cycle. I also put paste of the stuff on the "sore" every now an then and washed my sheets every day.
My friends on the others went through some intense cleaning of their houses and put plastic on everything that wasn't washable. They also washed themselves with some seriously intense chemicals. They said it was almost unbearable and felt like skin wide burning while my baths only made my neither regions tingle a bit.
We all got the same results in the same amount of time in the end.
We believe that man-made remedies are inherently better and have lost our connection to nature in another way.
It definitely is a lot more convenient to buy a pack of pills instead of having to go into your store of sheep sorrel that you gathered in-season for when you have a sore joint.
I don't think any of those remedies are advisable to any wound. Even hydrogen peroxide have not been used in wounds in recent years.
Hydrogen Peroxide has actually been proven in lab tests to delay healing. So it’s ok if that’s all you have to sanitize a wound, but it’s not a great choice otherwise.
Lol, tetaanus
Let that teta-anus bleed out.
This whole movement is a problem that solves itself if properly contained
Poor kid though.
yea,
I dont mind adults getting themselves killed, but no kid deserves to die due to their parents being an idiot.
Yeah, fuck the kids, right?
Definitely not advocating for that, and not advocating for anything actually. Just an observation, and I did say it was a problem, in fairness to my tender ego.
"If properly contained" doing a lot of heavy lifting in this statement haha.
Proof that child abuse can also happen to adults.
I'm surprised nobody suggested that he sleep with an onion in his sock.
Antivax: The official Doomsday Cult of Mumsnet.
Homeopathic A&E
Please be a joke, please be a joke...ah that was close.
It's bad when you think this actually might be real these days
Unfortunately the antivaccine BS doesn't subscribe to one political ideology
Well, and it doesn’t help when, for example, the US government administered STDs under the guise of vaccines (see Tuskegee study). Let’s not forget that bullshit and how that echoes through generations…who we put in our government fuckin matters!
Conservatives are deadly fucking stupid. I don't mind them killing themselves, but killing their children is just horrific to witness. Conservatives should not be permitted to be parents.
CPS should be way more involved with right wing extremists.
An 18 year old can decide their own fate here, hopefully they don't have a kid of their own yet
If he doesn't have access to a car, he may be unable to get to a doctor/hospital on his own. Many parts of the US are like this.
And with enough homeschooling and policing of information the kid may not even realize how bad they have it.
This is quite obviously a joke....
Sounds all a bit fake tbh
Not to the stupid parent who is struggling with a ill child and desperate.
