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Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Lemon on August 11, 2016, 10:25:51 am
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Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Ambious on August 11, 2016, 10:43:09 am
I haven't even listened to it and I'm already mad
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Post by: Jack Sensation on August 11, 2016, 10:53:29 am
I mean at least when someone's told to ingest something harmful it's in such a small amount as to be negligible.

e: "small amount" "not there"
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Eider Duck on August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am
For some reason, the part that annoyed me the most was the guy who recommended taking 3 doses of sulphur. Sulphur by itself is fine, as it's a component used in building amino acids, which forms proteins in turn, so it's not bad for you in moderation like everything else. But you can get your recommended dosage through eating vegetables like a normal person, not by diluting it with water like an idiot.

I hadn't known anything about homeopathy before now, but apparently it's the saviour of dudes with dick problems everywhere!
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Post by: Blandest on August 11, 2016, 11:43:19 am
...I hadn't known anything about homeopathy before now...
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am

How?
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Eider Duck on August 11, 2016, 11:50:01 am
...I hadn't known anything about homeopathy before now...
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am

How?
Blandest, August 11, 2016, 11:43:19 am

I dunno, I just knew it was something under the umbrella of psuedoscience, and was therefore a load of shit, and left it at that. I knew it was a thing, but I didn't know the silly details. I've never even known anyone that was into it!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Boots Raingear on August 11, 2016, 12:21:24 pm
For some reason, the part that annoyed me the most was the guy who recommended taking 3 doses of sulphur. Sulphur by itself is fine, as it's a component used in building amino acids, which forms proteins in turn, so it's not bad for you in moderation like everything else. But you can get your recommended dosage through eating vegetables like a normal person, not by diluting it with water like an idiot.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am

The thing I didn't explain in the intro is that the remedy is usually diluted to the point where there is none of the original ingredient in it.

A 20C sodium solution is one part sodium in 10^40 water, which means that you have extremely slim odds of having a single atom of the original sulphur remaining in the final remedy.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Eider Duck on August 11, 2016, 12:32:30 pm
For some reason, the part that annoyed me the most was the guy who recommended taking 3 doses of sulphur. Sulphur by itself is fine, as it's a component used in building amino acids, which forms proteins in turn, so it's not bad for you in moderation like everything else. But you can get your recommended dosage through eating vegetables like a normal person, not by diluting it with water like an idiot.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am

The thing I didn't explain in the intro is that the remedy is usually diluted to the point where there is none of the original ingredient in it.

A 20C sodium solution is one part sodium in 10^40 water, which means that you have extremely slim odds of having a single atom of the original sulphur remaining in the final remedy.
Boots Raingear, August 11, 2016, 12:21:24 pm

Then... then why recommend dosage at all, if it's going to be diluted so much? They may have well as recommended arsenic and/or lead since it will be so diluted.

God, homeopathy is dumb as all fuck.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Boots Raingear on August 11, 2016, 01:03:08 pm
Then... then why recommend dosage at all, if it's going to be diluted so much? They may have well as recommended arsenic and/or lead since it will be so diluted.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 12:32:30 pm

They do that. The ingredient they prescribe is something that will cause the symptom they are trying to cure. They prescribe arsenic homeopathic remedies for people who vomit a lot. They prescribe caffeine for people with insomnia. It's such obvious bullshit, but people who may or may not be my mother have spent an awful lot of money on it.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Ambious on August 11, 2016, 01:09:46 pm
Jesus christ child homeopathy isn't even funny, it's borderline child abuse

Then... then why recommend dosage at all, if it's going to be diluted so much? They may have well as recommended arsenic and/or lead since it will be so diluted.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 12:32:30 pm

For the same reason you repeat a magic incantation an exact number of times rather than just once - because when you quantify something it makes it seem as if it's actually relevant.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on August 11, 2016, 01:12:10 pm
Homeopathy To Marie is my favorite Nurse With Wound album
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Yavuz on August 11, 2016, 01:13:01 pm
"I want to sex with my wife daily."
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Sherman Tank on August 11, 2016, 01:22:31 pm
It's cool you got one of the Portal of Evil guys on the podcast.

Also these people are just as incoherent and stupid as I always expected homopaths to be.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: EYE OF ZA on August 11, 2016, 01:47:12 pm
For some reason, the part that annoyed me the most was the guy who recommended taking 3 doses of sulphur. Sulphur by itself is fine, as it's a component used in building amino acids, which forms proteins in turn, so it's not bad for you in moderation like everything else. But you can get your recommended dosage through eating vegetables like a normal person, not by diluting it with water like an idiot.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 11:34:00 am

The thing I didn't explain in the intro is that the remedy is usually diluted to the point where there is none of the original ingredient in it.

A 20C sodium solution is one part sodium in 10^40 water, which means that you have extremely slim odds of having a single atom of the original sulphur remaining in the final remedy.
Boots Raingear, August 11, 2016, 12:21:24 pm

Then... then why recommend dosage at all, if it's going to be diluted so much? They may have well as recommended arsenic and/or lead since it will be so diluted.

God, homeopathy is dumb as all fuck.
Eider Duck, August 11, 2016, 12:32:30 pm
Because water maintains a memory of what's been put inside of it, so it remembers the sulfur/arsenic/lead and then woobly joobly your pannis work sex time all time
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Sherman Tank on August 11, 2016, 02:09:26 pm
I'm pretty sure that site is Indian, which explains so much about the weird language issues. Saying you're "non-vegetarian" is a common thing in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Eider Duck on August 11, 2016, 02:17:42 pm
I feel like an alien, I'm learning stuff about homeopathy today that I never thought I would.

They do that. The ingredient they prescribe is something that will cause the symptom they are trying to cure. They prescribe arsenic homeopathic remedies for people who vomit a lot. They prescribe caffeine for people with insomnia. It's such obvious bullshit, but people who may or may not be my mother have spent an awful lot of money on it.
Boots Raingear, August 11, 2016, 01:03:08 pm

It's depressing when you put it that way. I mean, I mentioned arsenic and lead because those are elements that are present in water in trace (and safe amounts, as it's under legal limits most of the time.) By that logic, they may as well just recommend water. These homeopathy expert people are taking advantage of people who 1. are vunerable due to medical conditons and whatnot and 2. know nothing about the basics of science.

For the same reason you repeat a magic incantation an exact number of times rather than just once - because when you quantify something it makes it seem as if it's actually relevant.The Ambious Exists, August 11, 2016, 01:09:46 pm

Then obviously what is needed is some scented candles and a wand to make all of this work. And possibly an incantation that summons dragons.

Because water maintains a memory of what's been put inside of it, so it remembers the sulfur/arsenic/lead and then woobly joobly your pannis work sex time all time
EYE OF ZA, August 11, 2016, 01:47:12 pm

Well shit, wish I knew that beforehand, maybe it can increase my pennis size if I use it right!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Aljonso on August 11, 2016, 02:56:48 pm
Goddammit, why do I always have to be playing Xenoblade X when I decide to listen to episodes that mention "Prone Masturbation"?
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: EYE OF ZA on August 11, 2016, 03:36:22 pm
Elder Duck, you should watch this great documentary called What The Bleep Do We Know

Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Eider Duck on August 11, 2016, 03:53:07 pm
Elder Duck, you should watch this great documentary called What The Bleep Do We Know

EYE OF ZA, August 11, 2016, 03:36:22 pm

I can tell from that clip that it's a great comedy documentary. It's going straight into the Netflix queue.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: A Meat on August 11, 2016, 04:03:06 pm
The only penis problem homeopathy can solve is not pissing enough
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Fanzay on August 11, 2016, 04:25:18 pm
HOMEOPATHY? OKAY

Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: KingKalamari on August 11, 2016, 05:43:47 pm
I learned that I have a lot of pre-conceived notions about people who believe in homeopathy and these dumb-dumbs have entirely reinforced that!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Liatai on August 11, 2016, 07:02:46 pm
Jesus christ child homeopathy isn't even funny, it's borderline child abuse
The Ambious Exists, August 11, 2016, 01:09:46 pm

Animal homeopathy is just as bad, if not worse. At least with humans there's a slight chance of a placebo effect! Animals can't really benefit from a placebo effect, only their owners can! STOP GIVING YOUR DOG BACH FLOWER REMEDIES AND GET ANTIBIOTICS FOR THEIR RAGING UTI DAMN IT ARRRRRRGH I see so much of this idiocy as a petsitter.

Arrrrgh this episode made me so mad and sad. I hope against hope that most of these people saw a doctor, a dentist, and a therapist, ASAP.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: memorylikeasieve on August 11, 2016, 09:14:56 pm
Yeah, I keep seeing people recommend those flower remedies for anxiety in cats.  It doesn't do shite.

The guy with the swaybacked kid just needs to fucking wait.  Lots of little kids have godawful posture.  Mine was like that.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Digital Walnut on August 12, 2016, 12:59:08 am
Yay! More Herb Alpert!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: ManMythLegend on August 12, 2016, 02:43:31 am
I'm pretty sure that site is Indian, which explains so much about the weird language issues. Saying you're "non-vegetarian" is a common thing in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
How Do I Reduce My Sherman Tank Power?, August 11, 2016, 02:09:26 pm

Almost all of the posts they read are almost certainly Indian because they are all textbook descriptions of Dhat Syndrome.  I almost felt bad for laughing at them so much.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: MyFaceBeHi on August 12, 2016, 04:49:24 am
Listening to the episode I could tell they are mostly Indian. I think this might deserve the tag Great Britain's Perverted Colonialism because only a former British colony that is oversatuated with eastern religions would be so heavily focused on the pannic size!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Cheapskate on August 12, 2016, 05:55:30 am
Didja hear about the guy who forgot to take his homeopathic medicine and died of an overdose?
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Nook on August 12, 2016, 03:31:02 pm
Come on, the reason homeopathy doesn't work for people is because they're not diluting their substances in the right kind of water. Put that shit in some Fred or Bling H2O and you can fucking kiss conventional medicine goodbye forever.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on August 13, 2016, 12:37:21 am
I might be crazy but I remember homeopathic drugs having advertisements on TV and being sold in drug stores as legit drugs. Goes to show how great our medical industry is. So yeah, when I was a teenager of course I knew it was shit diluted in water, but all this mainstream visibility lent it the credibility of something that was socially acceptable to be sold as medication. It's been years so I don't know if this is still the case as I don't even own a televisio (http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/)n.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Digital Walnut on August 13, 2016, 01:53:56 pm
I might be crazy but I remember homeopathic drugs having advertisements on TV and being sold in drug stores as legit drugs. Goes to show how great our medical industry is. So yeah, when I was a teenager of course I knew it was shit diluted in water, but all this mainstream visibility lent it the credibility of something that was socially acceptable to be sold as medication. It's been years so I don't know if this is still the case as I don't even own a televisio (http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/)n.
Spooks, August 13, 2016, 12:37:21 am
There have been some FDA crackdowns on supplements and homeopathic products that actually claim to treat or cure specific conditions, but as long as you're careful about the language you use, you can sell pretty much anything as a bullshit health product in the U.S.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Zekka on August 14, 2016, 12:13:44 pm
Gorgeouspil gives me "happy lucky feeling" and that's good enough for me.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Lux on August 14, 2016, 12:41:01 pm
Do Indians have a cultural bias against masturbation or something? It seems all of the guys thought that jerking off caused their problems...
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Sherman Tank on August 14, 2016, 08:43:42 pm
Do Indians have a cultural bias against masturbation or something? It seems all of the guys thought that jerking off caused their problems...
Lux, August 14, 2016, 12:41:01 pm

There's a widespread belief that masturbating saps away your male life energy or something like that.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on August 14, 2016, 11:51:48 pm

As for the warnings on the box, James Randi here has lived to the old age of 88 after "overdosing" on homeopathic remedies countless times. This video is from 2001.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: jimpjorps on August 16, 2016, 03:39:06 pm
Do Indians have a cultural bias against masturbation or something? It seems all of the guys thought that jerking off caused their problems...
Lux, August 14, 2016, 12:41:01 pm

It's related to Dhat syndrome, a kind of psychosomatic syndrome that comes from the belief that they're wasting semen (from premature ejaculation, too much masturbation, or it somehow accidentally escaping when they urinate), which is no good because Ayurvedic medicine says that semen is the distilled product of thousands of times as much blood.  This leads to a fixation on the idea that the semen loss is sapping their body's energy, making them associate every pain or ache or social difficulty with it.
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Post by: Ambious on August 16, 2016, 09:08:10 pm

As for the warnings on the box, James Randi here has lived to the old age of 88 after "overdosing" on homeopathic remedies countless times. This video is from 2001.
Jackal Flapnasty, August 14, 2016, 11:51:48 pm

James Randi is a fucking hero.
Watch his bio documentary, "An Honest Liar". It's good.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Quark-Antiquark on August 16, 2016, 09:09:55 pm

As for the warnings on the box, James Randi here has lived to the old age of 88 after "overdosing" on homeopathic remedies countless times. This video is from 2001.
Jackal Flapnasty, August 14, 2016, 11:51:48 pm

Isn't overdosing on homeopathic remedies just drowning?
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Ambious on August 16, 2016, 09:12:05 pm

As for the warnings on the box, James Randi here has lived to the old age of 88 after "overdosing" on homeopathic remedies countless times. This video is from 2001.
Jackal Flapnasty, August 14, 2016, 11:51:48 pm

Isn't overdosing on homeopathic remedies just drowning?
Quark-Antiquark, August 16, 2016, 09:09:55 pm

Or alternatively...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Argyle Funk on August 17, 2016, 03:39:48 am
Homeopathy is a little like making love in a canoe, except instead of doing that you get out of the boat and hump the lake.

It's just fucking water
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Ambious on August 17, 2016, 03:41:29 am
Homeopathy is a little like making love in a canoe, except instead of doing that you get out of the boat and hump the lake.

It's just fucking water
Argyle Funk, August 17, 2016, 03:39:48 am

You just KNOW that's a fetish somewhere online.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Argyle Funk on August 17, 2016, 03:51:04 am
Homeopathy is a little like making love in a canoe, except instead of doing that you get out of the boat and hump the lake.

It's just fucking water
Argyle Funk, August 17, 2016, 03:39:48 am

You just KNOW that's a fetish somewhere online.
The Ambious Exists, August 17, 2016, 03:41:29 am
H2Otherkin gotta reproduce somehow
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Frank West on August 17, 2016, 11:23:12 am
So originally, diluting wasn't a vital part of making the homeopathy treatment more effective. The guy who came up with it had the idea that "like cures like", basically, what caused a symptom in a healthy person would cure that symptom in a person who already had it from some other cause. When he actually tried this shit out, though, the person he tried it on obviously developed the symptom of the thing he'd given them. He started diluting to avoid giving them the symptoms that his "cure" would cause, and his process of diluting and then specially shaking the diluted mixture was a way of keeping it AS potent as it originally was. Eventually this turned into dilution making it MORE powerful.

Also, allopathy is the homeopathic word for "normal medicine that actually works".  Other alternative medicines also sometimes use the word. They can't use phrases like "normal medicine" or "scientific medicine", because that implies that homeopathy isn't normal or scientific. They had to make up a phrase for it, because prescribing shit that actually works alongside their bullshit makes them look really good when the patient feels better.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Yavuz on August 17, 2016, 12:20:13 pm
Also, allopathy is the homeopathic word for "normal medicine that actually works".  Other alternative medicines also sometimes use the word. They can't use phrases like "normal medicine" or "scientific medicine", because that implies that homeopathy isn't normal or scientific. They had to make up a phrase for it, because prescribing shit that actually works alongside their bullshit makes them look really good when the patient feels better.
Frank West, August 17, 2016, 11:23:12 am

It's the same as with asexuals on Tumblr. They even use the same prefix. Apparently, it comes from a Greek word for "other".
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Dawnswalker on August 17, 2016, 08:14:40 pm
I keep going back and forth between feeling bad for the DAUGHTER WHO IS TOO LOUD. One one hand, she might have a profound disability that requires diagnosis and intervention from a real doctor that she'll probably never see before it's too late, but on the other hand, her father's English skills are such that for all I can tell, she just has poor posture and likes to yell a lot, just like every other toddler on the face of the planet.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Gyro on August 20, 2016, 06:44:00 pm
It actually makes me really sad that these people, who obviously have real problems (sex-related leg numbness? I don't think that's sex-related, honey, you need to see a motherfucking real doctor), are just going straight to bullshit without even considering actual medical care.

Do Indians have a cultural bias against masturbation or something? It seems all of the guys thought that jerking off caused their problems...
Lux, August 14, 2016, 12:41:01 pm

There's a widespread belief that masturbating saps away your male life energy or something like that.
Sherman Tank is a Tool to Release The Nuts, August 14, 2016, 08:43:42 pm

...which is making in-roads in the West thanks to NoFap!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Sherman Tank on August 26, 2016, 06:28:05 pm
Apparently "sexologist" is a real term. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexology) I didn't believe it either before I did a search, but there it is.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Old_Zircon on August 30, 2016, 11:59:03 am
OH man, I have been neglecting F+ lately and didn't catch this (I'd forgotten all about the doc, too!)

Just wanted to reveal the secret of the "theme" in my threads, which is laziness.

If you just do domain limited searches for "farts" and "boners"  you can usually get a solid doc together in about an hour.
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Post by: Old_Zircon on August 30, 2016, 07:41:40 pm
I'm pretty sure that site is Indian, which explains so much about the weird language issues. Saying you're "non-vegetarian" is a common thing in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
How to Colon Cleanse With Sherman Tank, August 11, 2016, 02:09:26 pm

I don't know if the site is, but the membership definitely is.  I remember being a little conflicted about that, because ESL humor is pretty low hanging fruit, but sticking to farts and boners mostly compensates for that.

Quora was actually a similar situation, it has a big Indian user base and there was definitely plenty of stuff where it didn't make the doc because it felt like maybe the humor was more just laughing at cultural differences.

At any rate, I'm really enjoying listening to this, I don't remember any of the stuff I put in the doc. Have to get back on that "humantaurs and extra limbs fetish" doc soon.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Old_Zircon on August 30, 2016, 08:04:21 pm
Apparently "sexologist" is a real term. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexology) I didn't believe it either before I did a search, but there it is.
How to Colon Cleanse With Sherman Tank, August 26, 2016, 06:28:05 pm

I used to know a professional sexologist with a PhD and everything, she was pretty cool.  Good sense of humor, kind of like what I've heard about morticians' sense of humor from people who know them (apparently there's a major subculture of gay morticians, and as a result one of my best friends has had gay morgue sex more than once and has a lot of friends in the industry) except for fuckin' rather than dyin'.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Yavuz on August 30, 2016, 10:43:37 pm
I'm pretty sure that site is Indian, which explains so much about the weird language issues. Saying you're "non-vegetarian" is a common thing in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
How to Colon Cleanse With Sherman Tank, August 11, 2016, 02:09:26 pm

I don't know if the site is, but the membership definitely is.  I remember being a little conflicted about that, because ESL humor is pretty low hanging fruit, but sticking to farts and boners mostly compensates for that.

Quora was actually a similar situation, it has a big Indian user base and there was definitely plenty of stuff where it didn't make the doc because it felt like maybe the humor was more just laughing at cultural differences.

At any rate, I'm really enjoying listening to this, I don't remember any of the stuff I put in the doc. Have to get back on that "humantaurs and extra limbs fetish" doc soon.
Old_Zircon, August 30, 2016, 07:41:40 pm

Whois says (https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=abchomeopathy.com) that it's registered to a company based near Aberdeen. "Influenca Ltd."
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Post by: Digital Walnut on September 02, 2016, 02:17:46 am
ESL humor is pretty low hanging fruit
Old_Zircon, August 30, 2016, 07:41:40 pm
I don't care because nothing makes me laugh more than people talking about penis problems in broken English.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Gyro on September 02, 2016, 08:17:50 am
ESL humor is pretty low hanging fruit
Old_Zircon, August 30, 2016, 07:41:40 pm
I don't care because nothing makes me laugh more than people talking about penis problems in broken English.
Digital Walnut, September 02, 2016, 02:17:46 am

giv help, pannis is shoot slow
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Old_Zircon on September 02, 2016, 01:25:17 pm
ESL humor is pretty low hanging fruit
Old_Zircon, August 30, 2016, 07:41:40 pm
I don't care because nothing makes me laugh more than people talking about penis problems in broken English.
Digital Walnut, September 02, 2016, 02:17:46 am


Same here.


EDIT: so does the phrase "low hanging fruit" in this context because I am 12.
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Post by: Spacebat on September 03, 2016, 02:39:29 am
I just can't get the image out of my head of a guy taking his daughter to a real doctor and saying:

SHORT HEIGHT
8 YEAR OLD GIRL
LOUD VOICE
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Post by: Yavuz on November 19, 2016, 04:03:34 pm
TAKE 15 DROPS OF 100C HOMEOPATHY UPDATE: The FTC is banning (http://www.vox.com/2016/11/18/13676834/ftc-homeopathy-crackdown-regulation) sellers of homeopathic drugs from marketing them as having a basis in science (as long as they can't present evidence that it's scientifically based, which, let's face it, they can't). Of course, they can continue to sell it without claiming that, but it's progress.
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Post by: Cleretic on December 23, 2016, 07:13:50 pm
So for my office's secret santa I was given a book of interesting and unusual wordswhich is great for making mefeel like an upper-class and dignified British person. But I come here with INFORMATION!

Allopathy actually has a definition!
Noun
The treatment of disease with remedies that have an opposite effect to the symptoms (the opposite of homeopathy)

So it's not just their buzzword for real medicine, it's actually a completely opposed yet largely just as bullshit medical practice!
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Post by: Frank West on December 24, 2016, 12:58:29 pm
So for my office's secret santa I was given a book of interesting and unusual wordswhich is great for making mefeel like an upper-class and dignified British person. But I come here with INFORMATION!

Allopathy actually has a definition!
Noun
The treatment of disease with remedies that have an opposite effect to the symptoms (the opposite of homeopathy)

So it's not just their buzzword for real medicine, it's actually a completely opposed yet largely just as bullshit medical practice!
Cleretic, December 23, 2016, 07:13:50 pm

That is not correct. The definition is correct, but the term was created by the founder of homeopathy specifically to refer to normal western medicine, so he could differentiate it from his homeopathy, which he viewed as a new and different approach to legitimate medicine, rather than something non-medical.
And I guess the definition is kind of correct, in that medicine does try to treat, say, sickness by using treatments that make you less sick, rather than than through the use of things that make you more sick.
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Post by: Sherman Tank on July 15, 2017, 05:23:56 am
(http://image.ibb.co/dwHwNv/IMG_2859.jpg)
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on August 25, 2018, 11:32:53 am
I guess we don't have a general homeopathy thread? I'll post this here.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/massive-recall-of-homeopathic-kids-products-spotlights-dubious-health-claims/

A tonic for newborns is said to relieve “restlessness,” and the company’s infant teething product claims to treat a baby’s “desire to be held constantly.” The company’s “Children’s Fever Reliever” also somehow reduces “fears” and “oversensitivity.”

Sounds fun. Hi, Victor!
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: KingKalamari on August 25, 2018, 03:27:05 pm
I guess we don't have a general homeopathy thread? I'll post this here.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/massive-recall-of-homeopathic-kids-products-spotlights-dubious-health-claims/

A tonic for newborns is said to relieve “restlessness,” and the company’s infant teething product claims to treat a baby’s “desire to be held constantly.” The company’s “Children’s Fever Reliever” also somehow reduces “fears” and “oversensitivity.”

Sounds fun. Hi, Victor!
Spooks, August 25, 2018, 11:32:53 am

Well, to be fair I don't think parents will have to worry about dead kids being particularly restless or attention-seeking...
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Post by: Old_Zircon on September 16, 2018, 07:12:00 pm
I'm pretty sure that site is Indian, which explains so much about the weird language issues. Saying you're "non-vegetarian" is a common thing in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.
How Do I Reduce My Sherman Tank Power?, August 11, 2016, 02:09:26 pm

Almost all of the posts they read are almost certainly Indian because they are all textbook descriptions of Dhat Syndrome.  I almost felt bad for laughing at them so much.
ManMythLegend, August 12, 2016, 02:43:31 am


I was almost feeling bad about it when I was making the doc but I fixed that by sticking to "fart" and "boner" search results, because fats and boner questions transcend nationality.
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Post by: Old_Zircon on September 16, 2018, 07:18:43 pm
I might be crazy but I remember homeopathic drugs having advertisements on TV and being sold in drug stores as legit drugs. Goes to show how great our medical industry is. So yeah, when I was a teenager of course I knew it was shit diluted in water, but all this mainstream visibility lent it the credibility of something that was socially acceptable to be sold as medication. It's been years so I don't know if this is still the case as I don't even own a televisio (http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/)n.
Spooks, August 13, 2016, 12:37:21 am
There have been some FDA crackdowns on supplements and homeopathic products that actually claim to treat or cure specific conditions, but as long as you're careful about the language you use, you can sell pretty much anything as a bullshit health product in the U.S.
Digital Walnut, August 13, 2016, 01:53:56 pm

My first job when I was 14 was at the second co-operative grocery store to open in the USA and that shit was RAMPANT when I was working there (early to mid 90s because I'm old).  There was one guy there who followed the Butthole Surfers on tour like a Deadhead except for the Butthole Surfers, and sometimes he would take expired herbal tinctures (which are mostly grain alcohol) off the shelf, mix them with water and get drunk on them.   Homeopathic stuff isn't even good for that.
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Old_Zircon on September 16, 2018, 07:19:33 pm
Hell yes, I'm replying to 2 year old posts.
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Post by: Yavuz on December 02, 2018, 10:56:29 am
https://twitter.com/DocBastard/status/1068925044636753922
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Post by: Sherman Tank on June 05, 2019, 07:00:28 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/Q8ITtqT.jpg)
Title: 223: Penis Problems & Water
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on June 05, 2019, 07:17:18 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/Q8ITtqT.jpg)
Sherman Tankoid, June 05, 2019, 07:00:28 pm

Don't worry, it's only 1:1,000 ground up platform shoes:water
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on June 05, 2019, 10:28:06 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/Q8ITtqT.jpg)
Sherman Tankoid, June 05, 2019, 07:00:28 pm
Homeopathically doing reps of back extensions
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Post by: xX_sp00ks_Xx on June 07, 2019, 09:03:32 am
I guess homeopathy jelquing is like. What? Peeing in the pool? Okay.