German homoeopathy conference ends in mass psychedelic overdose

 
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Police suspect foul play after 29 delegates at an alternative medicine seminar in Germany started staggering suffering from violent convulsions, delusions and hallucinations.

 
 
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Let me guess - this is where we start making fun of homeopaths in general, even though this is just some isolated incident?

 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 09, 2015, 11:27:42 PM
Let me guess - this is where we start making fun of homeopaths in general, even though this is just some isolated incident?


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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 09, 2015, 11:27:42 PM
Let me guess - this is where we start making fun of homeopaths in general, even though this is just some isolated incident?
Oh trust me, homeopaths being stupid is not an isolated incident. It's actually universal.

 
 
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Quote from: Executioner Sigma on September 10, 2015, 12:19:52 AM
Quote from: Carsonogen on September 09, 2015, 11:27:42 PM
Let me guess - this is where we start making fun of homeopaths in general, even though this is just some isolated incident?
Oh trust me, homeopaths being stupid is not an isolated incident. It's actually universal.
"any solution that's not shoving manmade chemicals down your throat is a bad one"

 
 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 09, 2015, 11:27:42 PM
Let me guess - this is where we start making fun of homeopaths in general, even though this is just some isolated incident?
Oh trust me, homeopaths being stupid is not an isolated incident. It's actually universal.
"any solution that's not shoving manmade chemicals down your throat is a bad one"
"if it's not manmade, it must be good!"

Keep sucking Mother Nature's cock.

 
 
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I literally never said that. There are some things nature can't treat, but the fact that people just immediately default to popping pills when they get the flu is sickening. There are actual effective herbal cures for moderate sicknesses like that.

 
 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 01:17:48 AM
There are actual effective herbal cures for moderate sicknesses like that.
I agree that we as a society use too many drugs, but the claim that homeopathy has any efficacy at all outside of a placebo effect is simply incorrect.

 
 
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Homeopathy is a great placebo treatment, if it helps some people get better then great.

However it is just straight up not a medical treatment whatsoever.

 
 
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Different herbs are definitely effective for common illnesses. If you make tea out of echinacea, for example, it will cure a sore throat faster than any other kind. Some natural things, believe it or not, do have medicinal properties. To claim that no plant across the board has any trace of them is just ignorance.

 
 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 02:53:15 AM
Different herbs are definitely effective for common illnesses. If you make tea out of echinacea, for example, it will cure a sore throat faster than any other kind. Some natural things, believe it or not, do have medicinal properties. To claim that no plant across the board has any trace of them is just ignorance.
Extracting medicinal properties from plants != homeopathy.

Do you know why? Because alternative medicine which works is just called medicine.

 
 
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Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness. Extracting medicinal properties from plants is homeopathy. Ever made a tincture? That's the best way to extract the beneficial chemicals from the herb.

 
 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness.
Haha, what? No it isn't.

Homeopathy is giving minute doses of natural substances to cure an illness which, when given in higher doses to healthy people, would give them the same symptoms as the illness the "medicine" is seeking to cure. Samuel Hahnemann invented it on his bullshit idea of "like cures like".

 
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness.
Haha, what? No it isn't.
You have a skewed understanding of it, then...

 
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Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness.
Haha, what? No it isn't.
You have a skewed understanding of it, then...
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Homeopathy ( i/ˌhoʊmiˈɒpəθi/) is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy

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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness.
You're thinking of Herbalism or Naturopathic medicine, which by comparison is pretty conventional and evidence-based.

 
 
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An argument I see a lot about alternative medicine is that "They lack scientific studies" to prove any claims of cures.
To an extent that's true. Keep in mind that a lot of studies are funded by pharmaceutical companies themselves, which I'm sure are not struggling for money. Since specific herbs and supplements can't be patented, there's no monetary incentive to create and publish studies showing the efficacy of them. This why there "aren't many studies"

By alternative, I'm talking specifically about naturopathic and herbalist practices here, not homeopathy.
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Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 01:17:48 AM
I literally never said that. There are some things nature can't treat, but the fact that people just immediately default to popping pills when they get the flu is sickening. There are actual effective herbal cures for moderate sicknesses like that.
How do you pop pills when you have the flu? That doesn't seem physically possible.

 
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Quote from: Dan on September 10, 2015, 01:27:17 PM
Quote from: Carsonogen on September 10, 2015, 03:21:54 AM
Homeopathy is using plants to cure illness.
You're thinking of Herbalism or Naturopathic medicine, which by comparison is pretty conventional and evidence-based.
Well then yeah, that's what I was talking about. I've always seen them used interchangeably, though.

 
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"Homeopathy is better than evidence based medicine. I can't prove it but, hey, at least you're not shoving man made chemicals down your throat."


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