To prepare this curative episode, we listened carefully to alternative health consumers for many hours, taking an exhaustive history of life challenges on physical, mental, and emotional planes. We scanned the symptoms against our compendium of disease states and prescribed the precise substances that would mirror them.
Then, we took minuscule audio samples from our podcasting apothecary — skepticism, melancholy, and empathy. We mixed these, diluted them a thousand times, to the point at which they became completely inaudible. Then we shook them up and down while chanting the spell of this bespoke remedy: Conspiritualitis investigarium.
Please don’t try to turn up your volume on this episode. You can’t actually hear it, and that’s what makes it so powerful.
But seriously folks. Welcome to our long-awaited homeopathy show — and not a week too soon. NFL’s leading quarterback Aaron Rodgers has just admitted to endangering the entire league by opting to be “immunized” via homeopathy rather than complying with the league’s vaccination requirements. (He’s also a lying liar.) There are reports of homeopaths selling COVID19 remedies — through both small ops in the U.S., and federally-approved dispensers in India, where Narendra Modi’s Hindu Nationalists mingled sugar pills with astrology to help disguise their negligent pandemic response.
Derek takes us on a tour through the strange history of this medicine that isn’t there, and interviews Jonathan Jarry of the McGill Office for Science and Society on why it haunts us. Julian contextualizes homeopathy against the broader “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” landscape. And Matthew wonders about the uses of magic.
Show Notes
A brief history of homeopathy
Vaccines and Homeopath
Homeopathy: A History
Berlin Wall pills: a cure for emotional trauma – or royal-endorsed quackery
Jonathan Jarry's homeopathy video
Jonathan's articles for McGill University
Homeopathy And Its Founder: Views Of A British Researcher
MEASURING MYTHOLOGY: Startling Concepts in NCCAM Grant
$2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found
Complementary And Alternative Medicine
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