Homeopathic uranium, it has been claimed that it cures a wide range of neurological ailments! What do you think?
- Note: The website is mine, and the "medicine" is real
** And, this sucks to have to say now (but good grief): THIS IS MAKING FUN OF HOMEOPATHY. Its all real - but it can't be harmful - It is a satire of homeopathy, homeopathic level dilutions mean there is NO ACTIVE AMOUNT LEFT. It is why homeopathy is absolute bullshit. You can dilute anything like this, from arsenic, to lead, to mercury, to agent orange, or to uranium - and it will do nothing. You have more of it in the dirt in your yard, and your well water.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Almost any homeopathic "medicine" is just as effective as a placibo. My sister is a dr and she swears by them. Basically the active ingredient is like taking one drop of the good stuff, and diluting it in a sea. So if I put one drop of vodka in a gallon of water, I'd get hammered? I was once told by a chiropractor (yes they can help with legitimate neck or back pain) to buy this homeopathic stuff for insomnia (I have tried everything OTC - and had about ever RX known to man - only thing that works is ambien, and I will not take that because the side effects are so terrible - needs to be illegal). She said I could take one pill, and if I needed to I could take another one every half hour. I took half the fucking bottle one night and still could not sleep! Over the years I've tried loads of homeopathic things. None worked. Not one. My sister gave me some homeopathic shit for anxiety. Doesn't do dick!
Some poisons can be medicines in very small amounts. Look at iodized salt. They put iodine in there to prevent colera.
TheGreatShadow
Level 9
Jan 25, 2020
1
@Larry-new Do they talk back to you? If so lie down on the couch...
It’s sad, but I have just done a quick search on homeopathic studies and found a few papers that conclude homeopathy being beneficial for some conditions that have been tested, but various meta analysis studies show no efficacy at all.
This means that it is possible some of the experiments with pro results show an element of observer bias.
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Jan 25, 2020
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Yeah, scientists don't claim to "know it all" (otherwise why would they go into research?!) But there are some things we know pretty well, and we are pretty good at physics. We can look at individual atoms - and we do know that water does not have a "memory", that diluting something cannot make it more powerful. Homeopathy is absolute bullshit, and people die because of it.
You have not provided any defendable chemistry information discussing the isotopes your are dealing with and the way the body reacts with your isotopes. Cannot recommend or accept until some reliable research is provided.
Living in New Mexico, background uranium is a natural part of our existence. It's almost ubiquitous, at least in the western part of the state
t1nick
Level 8
Jan 25, 2020
1
There IS no chemistry to explain, that's the whole nature of the joke - there is no measurable amount left after homeopathic level dilution.
Got it. Missed first go around.
Might as well make some money selling the stuff.
Stephanie99
Level 8
Jan 25, 2020
1
People would get psychotic over it, Americans are now the least science literate in the industrialized world. Having dropped from the top of the list a few decades ago. It would be funny, but then I'd spend my life in court!
@Observer-Effect Why do you think Americans have become less science literate? Is it to do with reduced subject availability in schools, or something else?
@Geoffrey51 That's a really good question, I know I spend more time being outraged about it than actually thinking of why and how. And I don't know - Sagan certainly called it 30 years ago:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
@Observer-Effect I was going to suggest dumbing down but it seemed a bit ingenious for a foreigner to say so!
@Geoffrey51 I think that it started with "No Child Left Behind". Schools and teachers lowered standards to not get penalized.
@Stephanie99 Oh dear! Playing to the lowest common denominator is fine, but not at the expense of the higher achievers.
There was a time when mercury was believed to offer the same benefits. Our knowledge of toxic materials is far more complete today. If uranium is so diluted to not be toxic, it can't be there at all and only good as a placebo, if at all
Travler
Level 5
Jan 25, 2020
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Yes, but mercury wouldn't be dangerous this way either, that's the whole nature of the joke - there is no measurable amount left after homeopathic level dilution.
Reminds me of the dubious flirtation of radiation treatments use in the early 19th century. All which either killed you right the bat or resulting in a prolonged painful death.
MrDragon
Level 7
Jan 25, 2020
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Yep, things like radium water and stuff were idiocy. But that is different than homeopathy, the nature of homeopathy is, and excuse the caps: THERE IS NOTHING THERE. This is why homeopathy is a scam.
You could eat plutonium homeopathically. You can have cyanide, Agent Orange, anything - homeopathically. Its not the poison, its the dose. There is uranium in sea water, but it takes millions of gallons of it to add up to much. There is uranium in the dirt in your yard, in granite countertops, and more.
Just like believers in homeopathy who are not educated in it, non-believers in it also need to know why its silliness.
Nuclear medicine field is alive and growing.
All in all, if I need to flush my system out a tall glass of prune juice does me just fine.
@Spongebob Yep, except there is no active ingredient here, it does nothing good or bad. That's the whole nature of the joke - there is no measurable amount left after homeopathic level dilution.
That can go right along with the self -study trips to Chernobyl every summer.
Spinliesel
Level 9
Jan 25, 2020
2
There are lots of folks offering tours of Chernobyl now. Apparently the area is just overrun with wildlife now, pretty happy to have the humans gone. We all know that the TV show "Chernobyl" isn't a documentary right? I have physicist friend who went. Now . . . going into the area right around the reactor and licking stuff would be bad, but he didn't.
[thecrazytourist.com]
@Observer-Effect I have great ideas but always too late!
I think homeopathy is a shitload of bullshit.
Mofo1953
Level 9
Jan 25, 2020
3
It is. Hence the joy I take in mocking it!
Is it anything like commodial silver?
DenoPenno
Level 9
Jan 25, 2020
1
No. Colloidal silver isn't related to Homeopathy, however - it is in the same general range of quackery!
@Observer-Effect I kmy silver in my safe box not in my stomach.
@Observer-Effect Yes, but commodial silver is from the commode.
I'm good without it, but thanks.
KKGator
Level 9
Jan 25, 2020
2
It is also reputed to increase sensitivity to satire! <3
@Observer-Effect No interest in that, either. Again, thanks though.
Reverend Faithful has a similar "holy" water. Be sure to watch the entire 5 min video.
DavidLaDeau
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Jan 25, 2020
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