Homeopathy is based on the crackpot ideas that: (1) “like cures like” – sympathetic magic that was abandoned long ago in favour of, well, reality; and (2) the more you dilute (and shake, or “succuss”) a solution of a substance, the more potent that solution becomes – even to the point that Avogadro’s Number...
I is buggered. Normally, this absent time and mental energy I would fill the empty bloggal spaces with lolshrink. However, I no can has even the capacity to translate this into lolspeak. What with my registrar (resident in US-speak) being away for two weeks for exams then having to be off a good half...
It’s time: time for someone to stand up and come clean about what the proponents of “complementary and alternative medicine”, and the antivaxxers, and their comrades-in-arms have been saying: we are evil. There, I said it. Proponents of CAM, and opponents of vaccines and allopathic medicine have for a long time been saying that...
There are a few things I’ve read today that I really don’t get – in different ways. One is sciencey-cool, one is magic, and the last is cruel and stupid and upsetting. I might start with the latter, so at least there’s something light-hearted to finish the post. But first, here’s something about perplexity...
Magic. Ghosts. Spirits. These are things that pop up in fairy tales and in children’s stories and tv shows & films. Sometimes even they’re debunked – for example in Scooby Doo (though I personally have never liked it) it’s always some guy with a mask and a clever contraption and some flashy chemistry –...
