Homeopathy

  • Science

    Au Naturel!

    People range from being too eager or too shy about putting substances in their body. Being skeptics, we know their reasoning can be derived from pretty shitty logic. I have heard homeopathy advocates argue that some substances are safer than something distributed by pharmaceutical companies because it is au naturel! There seems to be a negative connotation about drugs synthesized…

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  • Skepticism

    Ask Surly Amy: Homeopathy

    Dear Surly Amy, I am a college student lucky enough to have a roommate whom I love dearly. She's a wonderful friend and a very intelligent person. The only problem is that she's very into homeopathy. She grew up with it, because her mother (who is a scientist, strangely, although I know not what sort) also believes in it. She's…

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  • Storm, A Very Minchin Movie

    Today is an exciting day for the skeptical community for today is the day that the Storm Movie is publicly released. Even more exciting is that we at the Mad Art Lab were given the opportunity to interview the three key players: Tracy King, DC Turner and Tim Minchin. Storm is a nine minute beat poem by Tim Minchin. (For…

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  • Homeopathic Webcomic!

    Here is something that might give you a giggle. I spotted it over at the Reality is My Religion Blog.

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  • Ask Surly Amy: Homeopathic Vaccines

    Help me! I’ve been trying to get the word out about the Pertussis vaccine at my work. I’ve been working with our health council leader, who is the only person in a long chain of people, who will help me. (I’m a grunt, he’s a manager.) He’s going to try to get the people who did our flu shots to…

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  • Ask Surly Amy: Malaria and Homeopathy

    Message: Dear Surly Amy, Recently I traveled with my sister’s family into a malarial area and her homeopath had prescribed drops to take as a prophylactic. I tried to inform her using e.g. Simon Singh’s Trick or Treatment and What’s the Harm etc. but she continues to believe that ‘allopathic’ medicines are money-making scams by big pharma. Ultimately it’s her…

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  • David Mitchell and Dara O’Briain on Homeopathy & Psychics

    We’ve featured videos of both these guys in past Skepchick posts. Here they are together talking about pseudoscience craziness.

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  • That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathy

    A number of people sent this one in, and for good reason (Patrick, Chris, and Sean, thanks!). This is one of the best send-ups of homeopathy I’ve ever seen . . . I laughed, I cried, I watched it three times in a row. From Brit show That Mitchell and Webb Look: Also from That Mitchell and Webb Look, here’s…

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