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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Yeah know over the years I have gone from let the idiots be idiots when it comes to folks who believe pseudoscience, but I am now of the general opinion that it should be perfectly acceptable to throw them in front of a train.

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Spouse comes from a family believing in this shit. They have a go to doctor for regular health issues (that one seems to be okay) and one for the bad issues (that’s the fraud).

  I’m sick for > 5 years now so I’m at the stage where I try everything if it doesn’t seem to kill me so about 3 years ago I went to see him.

  It was wild (quantum physics are easy to use and he heals his grandchildren in Africa regularly, pendulums and quartz stones were used, he shoved me around a few times, …) and in the end he explained that I’m suffering from worms that can’t be detected with school medicine tests. How treatment was as follows:

  • No alcohol and caffeine for two weeks so he can remotely undo my corona vaccine
  • Taking a few drops of his medicine daily so he can remotely attack the weekend through this

  The whole session was expensive as fuck and I had some very long talks with my spouse about this afterwards. He stopped giving money to this guy now, after the fraud doctor started to call him and say he saw that my spouse is becoming sick (fraud dr has a drop of spouse’s blood and claims it changes when spouse becomes sick) and that he needs to start his remote therapy…

  If you can speak German or are willing to translate: behold fraud dr website

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  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw the term “bio resonance” and immediately knew that this ostensible medical practitioner couldn’t get in touch with reality if they used a special reality-seeking pole constructed from a thousand dousing rods.

    I used to work adjacent to the medical field, close enough to have to deal with a certain kind of medical practitioner a lot. For some reason, that part of medicine attracts people who believe in the supernatural so I’m familiar with bullshit from anthroposophy to quantum healing.

    That shit gets real wild real fast. Bio resonance is already terrible (it’s basically the same kind of bullshit Scientology’s “E-meters” pretend to do but now as a “therapeutic” device with thirty buttons). But the worst must be quantum healing.

    In quantum healing, actually seeing the patient in person is not necessary. Neither is knowing a lot about the patient. In fact, the less the practitioner knows, the better. Just give them a picture and a really vague description of the symptoms and the person (or pet; it “works” for those, to), and the practitioner will do something at some point in the future that will have some positive effect on either the person or the universe as a whole, even if it’s not obvious. Source: Trust me, bro.

    And they charge real money for that shit. Real medical practitioners who went to real university and have a real degree in human medicine.

    Absolutely incredible.

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s even wilder is, that at some point I had the “pleasure” to meet someone who was a self proclaimed “expert on radioactivity”. This man walked around with a stick waving it around and then measuring radioactivity in percent. He then proceeded to bury a bowl in the field to trap all sorts of radiation in there and cleanse all radioactivity from the nearby area in it. It was god damn awful to see my parents paying actual money for this man.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The no alcohol and caffeine could actually help. It’s worth a shot at least if you still have ongoing issues. Not that this hack deduced anything accurately, but that probably does help a lot of people, and then he gets to take credit for it. It’s cheaper than free to try, though you’ll probably have some headaches for a few days if you have a bad caffeine dependence, like almost all of our society has.

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Generally if you’re talking to someone with a chronic illness, and you think you have an idea of something that might help: A, it won’t, and 2, they’ve already tried it or C, they physically can’t.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Avoid the headaches by titrating off the caffeine.

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought my dad was crazy because he thought rubbing bus fingernails together would regrow his hair (he’s bald like Mr. Clean).

    This is the truly wacky shit right here though.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Desperate people are so willing I guess that goes for some bald people too :/

      I know a few people who got their hair transplanted to their heads and are very happy with it. JIC your father gets tired of rubbing his nails someday.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    wow and in Germany too. You would think a good level of nation-wide education would solve such problems. seems like not.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      German loves homeopathy actually

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    • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Best” part of this is that our public health insurance pays out for this nonsense. Some providers allow you to opt out but I don’t think the majority of Germans bother.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Nazis and (racial) pseudo science. Name a more iconic duo.

      But even before that, health at least to a certain degree, has become a product. This is the breeding ground for these kind of people.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a problem here. Studied apothecaries are peddling that bullshit as medicine. Most health insurances even pay for that shit.

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  • dfense@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, this doctor is definitely not suffering from low self esteem. What a hack. Hey, hope you will get better soon!

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  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This reads like a plot for those whacky cartoon in the 90s.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ‘Vibe-healing.’

  We await AI homeopathy healers.

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  • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure I already was an article where a guy replaced his table salt with some other form of sodium because chat gpt suggested it. He ended up giving himself a disease that’s been mostly eradicated in the modern day.

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A poisoning that’s rarely seen anymore but used to be more common. The heaps of data on bromism over the decades must not have made it into the training data.

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    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup, he was eating sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride. Any significant amount of bromide is not good for ya.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The irony is that for a good amount of less-serious health issues the placebo will work.

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “You could totally use quantum crystals to heal your cancer, would you like me to get a list of effective crystals?”

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you mad, what if they reverse their polarity in the vicinity of 5G signals??

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• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com

  Still the best explanation of homeopathy out there on the internet.

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  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate it how people are willing to trust any shady person in the name of alternative medicine. Sure, regular medicine has it’s flaws, but the solution is better research, not alt medicine peddled by the shadiest people imaginable.

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Just like anything else, there are shady doctors, nurses, etc. and there are shady alternative medicine people. The only reason pharma aren’t using herbs and such is because they can’t patent them. It’s easier to make them consistent as well. I could give you a shit ton of articles on both sides of this discussion.

      The MD’s aren’t even being trained to help people anymore. They’re being trained to survive med school and their student loans. Once they get experience, they’re trained how to deal with insurance companies.

      Our healthcare is in a world of hurt so start looking inward first and fix that.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They act as if the alternative practitioners are immune from corruption.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Careful, this might get you sued in Germany.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What?

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• tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not homeopathy but I once saw a video where someone tried to use quantum physics to justify manifesting. Grifters gonna grift.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Meanwhile none of these people know what a probability field is, much less what the fuck makes a baryon anti-green.

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• hypeerror@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Found RFK Jr’s account.

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• Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People pushing homeopathy should be forced to undergo mandatory reeducation.

  Shit like this is what gulags were invented for.

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• s@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, maybe we should collectively stop invoking Feynman’s name? I’ve heard he wasn’t exactly a fine man

    Still a scientist that can’t and shouldn’t be erased from history.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most of the criticism comes from a chapter in “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” where he does some things close to what we now call PUA shit. In other words, picking up women at a bar by acting like an asshole.

      Feynman also called it off after a test because he didn’t want to treat women that way.

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  • chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    quantum entanglement implies no such thing, stop reading garbage.

    also what’s cancelling a man who died in the 80s going to accomplish for literally anyone? he was a historic scientist who made important contributions to his field. absolutely tell the truth about the kind of person the man was but “shut up about feynman bc feynman bad” is fucking brain dead take.

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  • Nakoichi@hexbear.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh yeah he was definitely an abusive piece of shit and there are far better people to cite.

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    • iThinkImDumb@hexbear.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh wait piefed people can’t see this because the developer of the piefed fork hard coded it to block hexbear while still forcing us to see comments from their instances.

      yeah fuck that. why do we stay federated with them if they blocked us? they’re just cynically manipulating how federation is supposed to work. if they cant see our replies why should we be subjected to their runny libshit? no offense or hate directed to s@piefed.world, their above comment is fine but i am sick of smug piefed libs and even chuds stinking up a thread and then seeing hexbear people take the time to write good explanatory replies and not knowing that the person they are responding to will never even see.

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• Hestia@hexbear.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as you can see, the patient is currently existing in a quantum state that is neither living nor dead

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hugh Everett understood quantum mechanics.

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  • bunchberry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah yeah I’m sure quantum mechanics makes us all immortal if that makes you feel better 🤣

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