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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Homeopathy: Proof that there is no hope for mankind.

"What's up with homeopathy?" (from The Straight Dope>.

Sorry if anyone is offended, but Cecil has just confirmed my already firmly-held conviction that homeopathy and snake-oil are equivalent commodities.

--Baloo

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[This message has been edited by Baloo (edited March 03, 2000).]

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

But before I took a hemeopathic medicine, I could only use 10% of my brain. Since taking this oil of primrose, I know use all of it, and have the ability to tell that a TV's on just by looking at it. Plus, my arm has grown back.

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

One of the explanations I've read for homeopathic "cures" is that water [with no trace of medicine] 'remembers' when it was part of water *with* medicine.

Okay, water remembers. Here's my $ 19.95 plus shipping & handling.

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Not all homeopathic treatments are hoaxes. Personal experience.

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Posted by Dane Simri (Member # 272) on :

Wow, I didn't realize they made homeopathic Viagra!

*Ducks and runs* :P

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

CC: Y'know, just because yout take something and then get better, there isn't automatically a causal relationship between the two. If you have a cold, and you stand on your head for a week, and then you get better, it doesn't mean you can cure a cold by standing on your head. :-)

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

I'm not gonna get into this debate because I still don't understand what exactly the stuff was, but I assure you, it *DID* work. Immediately. And not for an illness. And not for that either, Dane. *whacks upside the head*

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Never underestimate the power... of suggestion.

For example... think of a lage white horse, its mane flowing in the breeze as it gallops towards you....

See? You did!

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

According to a number of reliable studies, the placebo effect alone is 40% more effective than doing nothing at all.

What this means is that if you think you're doing something that will help, it will! (Help, that is. If you've got a severed artery, get a tourniquet and a doctor, in that order.) Conversely, even the best treatment will be much less effective if you believe it won't do much good. The power of suggestion works very well in either direction.

--Baloo

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

I was 10. I didn't know what it was or what it was supposed to do.

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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"

Posted by Dane Simri (Member # 272) on :

Am I the only one who sees this account as evidence of tampering with the timeline? Charles, you didn't happen to see a "weather balloon" crash or something like that just before all this took place, did you?

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Dane

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

*vague* It wasn't a weather baloon. It was much smaller. And hit my head rather nastily.

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"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

"Baloon", eh? Would that be the Esperanto accusative form of "Baloo"? :-)