Mon 15 Apr 2013
The Vessel with the Pestle
Posted by anaglyph under Hokum, Idiots, In The News, Insane People, Scary, Skeptical Thinking, Stupidity, WooWoo
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The last year has veritably flown by, Faithful Acowlytes, and we find ourselves once more at the beginning of our favourite festival: World Homeopathy Awareness Week. At this time we remind ourselves that it is our responsibility – nay, our duty – to make sure the world is aware of homeopathy, and today on TCA I will be doing my bit, because I believe everyone should be aware of homeopathy. Specifically, I think everyone should be very aware of what a total crock of shit it is.
Over at World Homeopathy Org we learn that this year is a very special year in which we are focussing on homeopathy for trauma and disasters.
Via a series of rotating banner images, World Homeopathy Org is giving us some idea of just how awesome and amazing homeopathy truly is with its many and varied uses. The image above, for example, tells us that homeopathy is surely your first stop after being struck by lightning – something of which I was unaware, but there you go.
Homeopathy is a sure-fire prophylactic for bad weather in general as we see in our next slide.
Yes, the debilitating effects of stormy seas can be addressed by homeopathy – remember, we don’t mean merely seasickness here, because this is Trauma and Disaster Week. No, my friends, we’re surely talking about the medical aftermath brought on by massive storms and tsunamis. Homeopathy is a veritable life preserver for such events…
As it is in the case of cyclones and tornadoes…
I know it’s the first thing I’d think of after my house was ripped to smithereens by a 400 mile per hour wind.
“Goodness, that was terrifying. Better take some homeopathy to help with this severed artery.”
Homeopathy also comes into play in the tragic circumstances of awful graphic design.
In this case, we see a graphic designer almost at the point of suicide after depicting himself quite badly as being almost at the point of suicide. He really needs homeopathy.
Homeopathy is also what you should turn to in the traumatic event that you discover you have freckles and have been processed with a crummy Photoshop filter.
Well, it can’t hurt, right?
But seriously folks, back to the war zones.
If you should find yourself being on the wrong end of a policeman’s truncheon whilst simply attempting to carry out your job as war correspondent, why not pop some Arnica 30c? It’s also good if you get tear-gassed. Fumbling around to find the bottle will surely take your mind off the excruciating acidic blinding sensations for, oh, a nanosecond or two. And if you’re really bolshie, maybe you can smear a little Natrum Phosphoricum ointment on that thug attacking you – he really looks like he needs some calming down.
But the next slide is getting down to the nitty gritty.
Here we see a young girl who has plainly lost everything she has, and is in the depths of despair. If there is something she really needs here, it’s homeopathy. Am I right?
And should the disasters get even more terrifying – we’re talking about world scale cataclysms brought on by wayward asteroids – homeopathy will really come to the fore.
When I look at the above image, I am seriously hoping that the people in those houses have dosed themselves up sufficiently on Calcarea Carbonica and Arsenicum. It’s surely the only way they’re going to survive ten million tons of water crushing them into a soggy bloody pulp.
The last slide in our presentation gives us an overview of the incredible range and depth of possibilities that might be addressed with homeopathic insight:
My goodness! Terrorism, droughts, volcanoes, landslides, nuclear radiation, bombings, blizzards, avalanches and locusts! Is there nothing that can’t be made better with homeopathy? That’s a rhetorical question, because no, there isn’t.
Homeopathy! The cure that’s so effective that nearly two centuries from its inception no-one can provide a single incontrovertible example of it actually working.
Let’s close with our favourite video of homeopathy’s most persuasive spokeswoman because, well, because I know you want it. Happy World Homeopathy Awareness Week, y’all!
H2O – check
Einstein – check
Stephen Hawkings – check
String Theory – don’t fully comprehend but, check
Energy – check
Dog Poop – check
Shit hits fan – check
Vibrations – check
Homeopathy – check.
Water remembers the vibe – WTF? There’s a lot of stuff in water it really should forget.
There’s a lot of stuff in homeopathy that we should all forget. All of it, actually.
Homeopathy works for me. Haven’t had a single hurricane here since I started taking 30C.
Homeopathy ftw! I’ll send Dr Werner right round so you can have a celebratory drink.
Homeopathy keeps me out of the devil’s clutches! A whole lifetime and I haven’t gone to hell yet! And the best part is, I don’t have to take anything, because there’s no homeopathy more dilute than no homeopathy.
You tricked me! I have been so mesmerised by your photoshop trickery-foolery that I thought all those slides above were the work of the TCA Labs.
But on closer inspection I find they are all from Homeopathy Org.
Do you think the staff at TCA Labs are moonlighting?
I’m afraid I can never be dafter than real homeopathy people. No matter how hard I try.
What is a sell?
I’m sorry, “What is a cell?”
Exactly.
It’s sad that in this day and age someone like you is so homeophobic.
I’m also a bibliophile.
Trying to have a rational discussion with a homeopath about the merits of their pseudoscience is more demoralising than trying to convince the most deranged religious fundamentalist of the possibility that there might, just might, not be a god.
Yes, very true. And, unlike arguing about God, you can, in fact, demonstrate scientifically that homeopathy is completely* ineffective. It just makes my mind spin when homeopaths attempt to refer to science to bolster their magical thinking – proper scientifically conducted trials all show that it has no effect. Even the improperly conducted ones show effects so small that for all practical purposes it’s useless. And THAT’s their evidence.
*The possible Placebo Effect notwithstanding.