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So did Irish leprechauns magically inject him with the vaccine while he slept, and a chiropractor can somehow see that?
(lemmy.world)
Not my screenshot please don't comment.
Say a mildly believable statement and combine it with something less believable or unrelated. Then say a punchline and you have a joke. What a bunch of hogwash.
There was absolutely no punchline in my statement; it was quite literal. My statement was intended to illustrate exactly how diluted homeopathic medicine is. If anything, you could call it hyperbole.
I can only assume that you interpreted my use of the word "hogwash" as pretentious, which was not my intention. Once again, I was simply using the word to emphasize the absurdity of homeopathic dilution.
I think it's important for people to understand that mechoman wasn't trying to make light of rhe situation or any kind of joke about homeopathy.
His explanation of homeopathy was accurate: Homeopathy operates on the principle of "like cures like," meaning it aims to treat a disease by administering highly diluted substances that would produce similar symptoms in a healthy person, with the belief that the extreme dilution process somehow retains the healing power of the original substance and stimulates the body's self-healing mechanisms. Of course there is no scientific evidence that such a strategy has any effect or positive results at all.
In this context, "hogwash" is an entirely correct word to describe the extreme ridiculousness of homeopathy. "Hogwash" can be defined as nonsense or bullshit.
I hope this explanation will be helpful to those struggling to understand the very valid point that mechoman shared with us.
The whole 'likes cures like' of 'homeopathy good' but 'vaccines bad' cracks me up.
One molecule in a dilution (that your immune system doesn't even see) is good, but a vaccine that makes your immune system to do the heavy lifting against the real thing is bad? Oh for fuck sake.
"Oh for fuck's sake" ndeed. I can't decide if it's funny or sad. So many poorly educated and naturally dumb-ass people keep falling for bullshit. As they say, there's a sucker born every minute.