• fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      I hate it how people are willing to trust any shady person in the name of alternative medicine. Sure, regular medicine has it’s flaws, but the solution is better research, not alt medicine peddled by the shadiest people imaginable.

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    22 days ago

    Not homeopathy but I once saw a video where someone tried to use quantum physics to justify manifesting. Grifters gonna grift.

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      22 days ago

      Meanwhile none of these people know what a probability field is, much less what the fuck makes a baryon anti-green.

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        21 days ago

        And that it’s just a theory, trying to fit what we observe, just like fire, wind, earth, water and the ether back in the day, but arguably working better.

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    22 days ago

    I highly recommend everyone to read up on Feynman, he is absolutely one of the genius that you can read about for modern times (well probably Hawking too). He gave me the urge to understand calculus and even if I never got there (I will probably try till I die because I wish I understood the world in a similar way), I so wish I could understand it 1/10 of he did. Also the biographies and other stories show how much he loves what he did, if we only could have many more with such interest in science. Mean maybe we do I don’t read science journals but his drive I think shows a lot.

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    21 days ago

    The supposed science behind homeopathy was already known, though. It was never a mystery.

    It basically worked around the pseudoscientific principle that water remembered what used to be in it, so if you diluted out water concentrated with the thing you had, it would somehow “remember” what was in it, and when taken, would draw it from the body through some principle of magnetism.

    It’s not like it magically somehow worked, and everyone was in amazement or anything quite like that. The only real reasons it did anything at all was that its contemporary treatments were things like bloodletting, which were worse for most things than not doing anything at all, or as a result of placebo.

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      22 days ago

      yeah yeah I’m sure quantum mechanics makes us all immortal if that makes you feel better 🤣

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        21 days ago

        I don’t want everyone to be immortal. I want to be the only immortal and watch you all perish.