Homeopathy. It’s a religion masquerading as science. Basically you take some chemical and dilute it, and dilute it, until you have a solution that is, for all intents and purposes, simply water.
Somehow the molecules of water you have left "resonate" with the chemical you originally put in, and cause an effect the opposite of what the original chemical did. Really. It makes no sense on so many levels.
It’s total, utterly quackery and bunk. Unfortunately, it seems to resonate with the hippy-dippy crowd in Madison. Whole Foods fucking sells this stuff!
I’m all for the free market, but when something is openly a fraud, I think that should be illegal.
Some I’ve discussed this with in the past have felt that while it may be true that homeopathic "medicine" is no better than a placebo, at least it causes no harm
I think that’s true, in the literal sense. You’re never going to get sick drinking a bottle of homeopathic solution because it’s just water! However, if you’re one of the idiots who is fooled into thinking that it’s the best thing you can do to heal your children, then your child may die.
The parents of a baby girl suffering from eczema ignored the advice of doctors and persisted with homeopathic treatment for their daughter until she died from infection, a court has heard.
Homeopath, Thomas Sam, and his wife Manju Sam are accused of the manslaughter of their nine-month-old infant daughter, Gloria Thomas, by gross criminal negligence.
It is not always a victimless crime to believe in stupid things, from tarot to homeopathy to god.
As I did in 2006 and 2007, I hit State Street with the FSM costume.
Once again, it garnered quite a bit of attention, both from those clueful in the ways of Pastafarianism, and those who just wanted to know what in the hell I was.
All of the pictures in the 2008 photo gallery with me and other folks were people coming up to me to ask to pose with me… except for the Ask Me About Jesus guy, with whom I had a long conversation. Neither of us seemed convinced in the end.
I think he was a bit mystified to see both Moses and a rabbi come up while we talked to offer their worship to me as the One True God.
This is a video from a call-in show on cable access in Austin about atheism.
One of the hosts here, Matt Dillahunty, calmly and reasonably has a long discussion with a caller who is trying to make the point that atheism is a state of faith. He really clearly lays it all out… the difference between belief and knowledge, the different "types" of atheism.
And the call also engages in reasoned discourse. Both are polite… until the very end when the theist caller gets a little frustrated.
There is no sense in it. There is no deeper meaning.
All those who talk of and to the grieving (including the chimp in the Oval Office) can’t help themselves but to speak of god and his greater purpose for the 32 slain.
Dudes, there is no higher purpose. That anyone would claim that somehow this is all part of a master plan from a higher being who knows better… it’s all just nonsense. If there is a god, he is not a benevolent one. No such god would allow this.
We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of redemption after our lives, but the necessity of compassion in our lives. We believe in people, in their joys and pains, in their good ideas and their wit and wisdom. We believe in human rights and dignity, and we know what it is for those to be trampled on by brutes and vandals. We may believe that the universe is pitilessly indifferent but we know that friends and strangers alike most certainly are not. We despise atrocity, not because a god tells us that it is wrong, but because if not massacre then nothing could be wrong.
Nice job, Wisconsin. You overwhelmingly voted for the amendment to ban gay marriage (and civil unions).
In 1895, South Carolina amended its state constitution to prohibit the "marriage of a white person with a Negro or mulatto or a person who shall have one-eighth or more of Negro blood."
In one hundered years history will look back at this moment and recognize that what was just done in Wisconsin was just as abhorrent as what South Carolina did in 1895 (and didn’t fix until 1998).
You are a stupid fucking hick if you voted for this ban. You probably also think we shouldn’t let the niggers marry our pure white folk.
Shame on you.
Shame on the small minded, dogmatic, hateful religion which inspired your vote.
I did my part over lunch today and cast an absentee ballot downtown. Don’t forget to do the same yourself on Tuesday (or before).
I voted against the gay marriage amendment (it’s already illegal!). Gotta love the Christians… though they purport to love everyone, they want to make discrimination a part of our state constitution.
And I also voted against the idiotic idea that we should reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin. We’ve only executed one man in this state, in 1851, and I hope he remains the last. We banned the death penalty in 1858. Our neighbors to the south (in Illinois) did not, and we merely have to look at them for evidence that the death penaly can and will send innocent people to be murdered by the state.
Adding this bit of nonsense that there has to be DNA evidence is irrelevant. DNA evidence is not infalliable.
As for the rest of the races, I did vote Democrat for governor, senator, and attorney general. I am a staunch anti-establishment voter. I think in theory at least, the Democrats and Republicans each have it half right (libertarians are all-right, but they can’t win a race). However, the incessant urge for the Republicans to involve their nutjob religious beliefs in the public sphere has left me no choice but to go for the lesser of evils this time. For shame.
You know, the religous right likes to say that this country was founded as a Christian state. They’re right in that most people at the time were Christian. However, back then, there was a strong sense that religion should be left out of politics. They meant to found a nation of the people, for the people, and by the people. Neither god nor government, but the people.
Furthermore, many of the founding fathers believed in God, but not Christianity. George Washington was a church goer, but walked out when communion started. Thomas Jefferson was rabidly anti-Christian, though also a believer.
Proponents of America as a “Christian nation” and those who favor public prayer often cite [Benjamin] Franklin’s entreaty that the constitutional convention open its meetings with a prayer. What they conveniently leave out is what actually happened following that suggestion. Alexander Hamilton first argued that if the people knew that the convention was resorting to prayer at such a late date, it might be viewed as an act of desperation. Nonetheless, Franklin’s motion was seconded. But then Hugh Williamson of North Carolina pointed out that the convention lacked funds to pay a chaplain, and then the proposition died. Franklin later noted, “The convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary” (emphasis added).
Also, the ESPN film crew got some footage of me in the window of The Pub on Friday night, and apparently played it during the Badger game on Saturday (and throughout the day on Saturday). I had tons of people come up to me and say they’d seen me on TV.
The FSM recognition rate was extremely low on Friday, but on Saturday night I had quite a few shout outs and kneeling Pastafarians.
Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains, and some creepy dude with a banana fetish have convinced me.
Finally, proof that God exists!
His thesis is simply that because the banana fits so well into his hand, it is proof that God exists.
What he doesn’t understand is that this could just as easily be an argument that this is an output of the evolutionary process. Human ancestors that couldn’t hold the banana well wouldn’t be able to feed themselves as well as those who could, so the non-banana eaters would tend to die off more quickly, leaving those humans with banana-grasping ability to remain to reproduce and pass on those traits.
Alternatively, to take the ad absurdium route… if a banana fits so well in his hand, and his dick fits in his hand just as well, does that mean God wants him to hold onto his cock? Further, if his cock fits so nicely in Kirk’s waiting bunghole, does that also mean God exists (and wants them to start buggering)?
Homeopathy. It’s a religion masquerading as science. Basically you take some chemical and dilute it, and dilute it, until you have a solution that is, for all intents and purposes, simply water.
There is no sense in it. There is no deeper meaning.
Nice job, Wisconsin. You overwhelmingly voted for the amendment to ban gay marriage (and civil unions). 
I did my part over lunch today and cast an absentee ballot downtown. Don’t forget to do the same yourself on Tuesday (or before).
