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NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
As everyone knows the more you dilute a Homeopatheic reagent the more powerful it becomes. Diluting their funding will only make them stronger.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
They should continue funding homeopathy. Just dilute the funding until there's less than a fraction of a penny per bill. According to homeopathy, this should be even better than receiving the full amount.
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Oh, that's right -- since diluting homeopathic remedies makes them stronger, they'd be putting everyone at risk of overdose. Never mind, then.
The latest terror threat; credible reports have been received by British Intelligence that terrorists plan to drop small quantities of homeopathic remedies into the nations reservoirs. The resulting homeopathic overdoses could bring the nation to its knees.
Police are on high alert and pharmacies are advised to report any suspicious individuals purchasing homeopathic remedies, particularly individuals who purchase ONLY SMALL QUANTITIES at a time.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I don't think that's true; I believe there's a small portion of gelatin, as well.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
don't forget the "succussion". shaking is VERY IMPORTANT!!!
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
>> 99.999% of homeopathy is either water or sugar.
But ( 1.0 x -10^24 ) isn't.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Pfft. Here's a youtube video that explains homeopathy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
>> D) But that's supposedly OK, because water somehow has "memory" and cures every symptom like a substance it ever encountered. (So I guess since a lot of water is more or less recycled, and so many people wank in the shower, tap water should be a bulletproof contraceptive.)
That explains the fertility crisis many developed countries have!!! Damn you Homeopathy!!!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
(So I guess since a lot of water is more or less recycled, and so many people wank in the shower, tap water should be a bulletproof contraceptive.)
You're missing the fact that the vessel containing the water has to be hit firmly against a suitable object ten times in order for it to magically remember what it's supposed to do. The object is traditionally a leather cusion stuffed with horsehair. Now, I don't know what you get up to in the shower...
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
Patient: Help me! I've overdosed.
Homeopathist: What did you take?
Patient: Nothing.
badum bum...
(Well somebody had to say it.)
Well if you were using Emacs you could have just done a M-x fight-infection and your thumb would have been better yesterday.
He forgot to take his medication.