10th Apr 2008

Medicine of the future: 200-year-old baloney! (By which I do not mean lunchmeat that has aged for two centuries.)

Some idiocy never goes away. It lies in wait for Quantum Mechanics to make it plausible. One of ten reasons to choose homeopathy instead of something effective:

(10) The medicine of the future

With over 6000 homeopathic medicines in existence and new homeopathic medicines being discovered all the time, Homeopathy is a growing art. However unlike allopathic medicine that takes drugs off the market every year as new side-effects are discovered, homeopaths still use the same medicines they were using 200 years ago with new medicines to broaden their scope. Scientists are only now discovering breakthroughs in quantum physics that helps us to develop a deeper understanding of homeopathy, as it was used 200 years ago.

Uh, so, it hasn’t changed in 200 years, but it’s the medicine of the future because you need modern science to be able to explain lie about how it supposedly works?

I am thoroughly bored by “experts” claiming that quantum mechanics proves their point. It doesn’t prove any of your theories about psychics, positive thinking, homeopathy, it’s just another bunch of big words that SOUNDS magical and therefore it what must be what makes magic work!

Medicine of the future, my ass.

Via Skepchicks. Or visit the World Homeopathy Awareness Week site itself if you want to experience the full, unadulterated beauty of their illogic — but isn’t homeopathy MORE effective when it’s diluted by hundreds of skeptical bloggers?

One Response to “Medicine of the future: 200-year-old baloney! (By which I do not mean lunchmeat that has aged for two centuries.)”

  1. Buzz Says:

    According to Dante’s scheme, homeopaths would be in the lowest circle of hell.

    Seriously, I hate people who try to rope in quantum mechanics to justify their pseudoscientific claptrap. Given that the foundations of quantum mechanics are part of my day job, I suppose that’s no surprise.

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