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found out my parents think homeopathy works
how do I get them to read real information about it (instead of propoganda from the alternative "medicine" industry) without seeming like a dick?

do they think that regular medicine is a scam

b/c there's not anything wrong w/ holistic medicine

homeopathy is a placebo hth

there's a reason there's something called the placebo effect - and it actually works

lmao

lmfao nona

positive thinking!

i know there's nothing medically working there, but people improve even when taking the placebo lots of times even though it's just sugar or w/e b/c they think they're getting real medicine

anon

it's still immoral to sell water as real medicine

okay but the placebo effect isn't going to help with my dad's heart problems

no but they're spending a LOT of money on bullshit
like most people who buy this stuff, they're college educated. they think that because they have knowledge about certain areas, they must know about medicine too

like homeopathy homeopathy, with the dilutions shit

or general "alternative medicine" homoepathy

straight-up "water memory" type homeopathy

omg

i'm not even sure how i can work with that, it is so unintuitive and wrong

right? I don't say anything about stuff like krill oil, b/c sure, whatever, there's a tiny chance it might help, but this is just spending money on water

explain dilution factors to them. homeopathic "medicine" is literally equivalent to throwing an aspirin in a lake, getting a glass, and calling it a headache cure

isn't it more like tossing a tiny amount of somethign that would CAUSE a headache into a lake

and then drinking a glass of that

yeah

I've tried to do that but they roll their eyes and say "oh I forgot, you know EVERYTHING"
no mom I just want you to be healthy for real :(

idk give them a copy of demon haunted world

I was thinking I might get my dad a skeptical book. he already reads all kind of stuff about atheism, so I'm hoping that will make him more likely to accept skepticism of quackery

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