{"id":23771,"date":"2010-07-06T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/homeopathy-made-simple-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:11:14","slug":"homeopathy-made-simple-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/homeopathy-made-simple-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Homeopathy made simple | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daryl Cunningham — the man who did this devastating comic strip<\/a> about antivaxxers — has turned his sights on homeopathy<\/a>. In just a few dozen panels he describes this alt-med nonsense, shows why it’s nonsense, shows why it’s dangerous, and then provides a dramatic and emotional example of just how and why belief in homeopathy can kill. <\/p>

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His terse description of the Penelope Dingle case hits like a punch in the throat. Homeopathy is dangerous, mostly because it lures people away from real medicine. But it’s also dangerous because it promotes magical thinking, which eats away at all<\/em> of reality.<\/p>

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Related posts:<\/p>

- A comic takedown of antivax icon Andrew Wakefield<\/a>
- British Medical Association: Homeopathy is witchcraft<\/a>
- Dear media: Hello, it’s me, science<\/a>
- Homeopathy and the 10:23 project<\/a><\/p>

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