It is always amazing to witness the clueless try and defend what is indefensible. Water has no “memory” and will not cure you of any sort of disease that requires actual medicine, say for instance Polio. The video on the CBC site had a mother suggest that a homeopathic vaccine for Polio was ‘protecting’ her child. After I stuffed my cortex back into my skull (it runs away from white-hot stupidity) I realized that it was time for another post on the current round of homoeopathic ratbaggery . Please see the science blog Respectful Insolence for more homoeopathic loonery exposed.
I did find a previous video on Youtube from CBC Marketplace on colon cleansing which is another money-sink for ignorant people. Enjoy –
Update: Thanks to Intransigentia for getting the links to the CBC Marketplace show on Youtube. Also see Orac’s generally favorable analysis of how the CBC treated the woo-meisters.
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January 16, 2011 at 7:39 am
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January 16, 2011 at 8:10 am
jean-philippe
There’s a very good side about homeopathy. Very often, the best thing to do when you’re sick and just wait to get better. Homeopathy is the same thing but you lost $20.
We take way too much drugs… At least, morons using this joke are not intoxicating their body…
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January 16, 2011 at 9:39 am
tildeb
Intoxicating their bodies? No bias there!
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January 16, 2011 at 9:43 am
jean-philippe
Bias? Meaning that every available drug is good for you? That a cold won’t go away on its own? That being tired means you should go to bed earlier?
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January 16, 2011 at 10:11 am
The Arbourist
Very often, the best thing to do when you’re sick and just wait to get better.
Often, it is not. Pertussis aka Whooping Cough and most certainly Polio will not ‘go away’ with simple bed rest. Sugar and water will not alter the course of either of these diseases significantly. Medical Science has evidence to prove that claim. Homeopathic medicine can make no so claim because they have no credible evidence to support their case.
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January 16, 2011 at 12:15 pm
IzaakMak
Some people are just too stupid to live, yet too lucky to just die off!
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January 17, 2011 at 9:47 am
Vern R. Kaine
If people are that naive, lazy, and/or ignorant to purchase impotent products like these without doing their homework, then they deserve the negative bank balances they receive as well.
Mesley’s program is great, but I think all it does is give educated people more backing for what they already know.
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January 19, 2011 at 11:23 am
The Arbourist
I just got the link to the actual shows on youtube, but first I went to the Marketplace blog and WOW the woo-peddlers were out in full force. Apparently a woo site organized them to deluge the comments section with their BS, it is a funny disturbing read (it gets better over time as more rational people chime in calling them on their BS). Watch as they repeat their baseless claims and bring solid anecdata to the table to defend their positions. It is sad, very sad indeed.
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