Let’s talk about fake science. One of Professor Dave’s latest is a takedown of the alt-health/supplements business that Joe Rogan and the MAHA crowd peddle. Well done and funny, as usual. https://youtu.be/wwLdFrjsN_c
In Western Europe a bit of regulation gives us cover, but homeopathic sugar pills still sell here. Quick primer on why homeopathy isn’t medicine. It was invented in 1796. before atoms, before germ theory, before modern chemistry.
The premise: a substance that causes a symptom in a healthy person cures that symptom in a sick person, if you dilute it enough. Now the dilution. A standard “30C” preparation is 30 successive 1:100 dilutions — 1 part in 10^60.
Past 12 dilutions, statistically zero molecules of the original substance remain. You’re drinking water. The pills are lactose. Defenders invoke “water memory.” There’s no known mechanism : water’s hydrogen bonds reorganize in picoseconds. Australia’s NHMRC reviewed 225 trials in 2015: no condition with reliable evidence of effect. Europe’s EASAC reached the same verdict in 2017.
This matters because sugar pills aren’t neutral when people skip real treatment. In 2017 a 7-year-old in Italy died of an ear infection treated with homeopathy instead of antibiotics. France ended reimbursement in 2021, the UK NHS in 2017. It’s still on pharmacy shelves across Western Europe. Here, in Belgium, it’s still reimbursed by some insurance fund. 230 years of confidently selling nothing.
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