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    • intensely_human
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      10 months ago

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

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

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

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            10 months ago

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

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              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