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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
    57·
    10 months ago

    I’m conflicted. On one hand, that’s no homeopathy in any shape or form. On the other hand, in no shape or form does homeopathy work. So I guess the bullshits cancel each other out?

    • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      Yeah you’re right, I guess I thought homeopathic just meant non medicinal. But it’s absolutely effective at both sterilizing and drying the ear.

    • intensely_human
      135·
      10 months ago

      Homeopathy definitely works. Vaccines are an example of a homeopathic remedy that has shown enormous success.

        • intensely_human
          113·
          10 months ago

          Vaccines treat disease using the disease itself. That’s the definition of homeopathic medicine.

          • Birdie@thelemmy.club
            4·
            10 months ago

            Vaccines are not so diluted that they contain nothing of what they claim to contain—but homeopathic remedies are.

            • intensely_human
              23·
              10 months ago

              Some homeopathic remedies are. Those instances are not the basis of the word’s definition.

              • JokeDeity
                1·
                10 months ago

                I don’t need one, literally go to the Wikipedia page for homeopathy and the page for vaccines.

                • intensely_human
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  From the wikipedia page on homeopathy:

                  Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians,[2] believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or “like cures like”

                  From the wikipedia page on vaccine:

                  A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and recognize further and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future.

                  Gee, you sure botched that one