That's fucking stupid

Newsflash: Hundreds of people overdosed on homeopathy treatments at the weekend and nobody died. Some may have been a little giddy with the extra sugar.

It wasn’t a bad stunt, one that got a little bit of coverage in the press. The homeopathy cronies will easily explain the reason that overdoses don’t kill or harm to be due to the safe nature of homeopathy treatment so no real harm is caused to their stories of voodoo and beating glass on leather.

Here’s the thing though: homeopathy does work as a pretty good placebo and the placebo effect is well documented to help people recover from all sorts of unlikely ailments. If thick people want to buy a placebo then it’s got to be cheaper for the NHS than paying for lots of expensive drugs. If it works then the NHS saves money, if it doesn’t then it’s not like we’ve lost an Einstein, is it?

I think everyone should read how it is actually supposed to work, it’s like someone made it up to see just how gullible people would actually be (eaten any spiders in your sleep recently?). Basically you get something that’s bad for you and then watering it down so much that there is none left. An example would be using caffeine to cure insomnia, but then watering it down so much that you would need a tub of water bigger than the known universe to find just a single caffeine molecule. The best bit is that by hitting the flask of water or shaking it makes the water remember what was in it.

I didn’t make that up. Samuel Hahnemann did in 1796 and people still fall for it.

I am now regularly hitting the side of my toilet bowl after I do a big turd so that the water I use to flush it will remember the poo. It’ll also be plenty diluted so extra potent by the time the homeopathy fans drink my shit.