Hilarious sketch from the fourth episode of series three of 'That Mitchell and Webb Look.' TM&WL at amazon.co.uk: www.amazon.co.uk/That-Mitchell... M&W in 'Peep Show' at amazon.com: www.amazon.com/Peep-Show-1-Dav...
I know someone who was using a homeopathic medicine. He thought it wasn't working, so he started taking less of it. This caused an overdose and he died.
John Mason No, overdose! In homeopathy the more diluted the mixture (mostly sugar and water) is the more potent it is! So in “homeopathic logic” if you take less amount of the mixture - you’re actually taking a more potent substance in. Therefore you get overdosed! Stupid, right? Well that’s why it’s so funny!
I'll be straight, ear candles are might actually work. My kid had some really bad earwax build up due to a combination of TONS of ear infections as an infant and a horrible fear of ENTs digging out the wax due to the ear infections as an infant. Used an ear candle, and BAM--he's basically cleared out. Still took him to the ENT to get the rest of it because I'm not a fucking idiot, but even the ENT said that it was surprising how well the candle worked.
It is easy to laugh at something that you know nothing about or if you can’t make any money from. Keep paying $80 a pill for something loaded with chemicals that can kill you.
Tanya Bishop Did I get it right, so it’s better to pay hundreds of dollars for things that don’t contain any chemicals at all? I mean if you think about it, saying chemicals can kill you - you are stating the obvious! Any chemical can kill you if you consume them without any moderation! Even sugar and salt are able to kill a person - and those are things we eat every day!
@@Drtbyrd Do you know that water, ethanol, oil, sugar and so on are chemicals? No. Homeopathy is made of chemicals as well. But I'd rather pay for pill made of chemicals that have proven effect than pay even more for useless and otherwise cheap chemicals that have none. And that are promoted by the idiots who do not realize should BS they claim to be behind homeopathy work - that would be the very reason why homeopathy could not work at all.
My mum is a 'trained' homeopath and she once said the following during a debate with me about its relevance to reality; "You cant test homeopathy with experiments because it doesn't work like science!" Needless to say, I lol'd
Ended up here after finally reading monday's xkcd. "Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just lying--it’s like an example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong"
I watched this and didn't think it was very funny. Then a friend of mine edited it down to 5 seconds and I chuckled a bit. I accidentally spotted a freeze frame and laughed even more. So then I took that freeze frame, extracted only 3 pixels and this is making by belly hurt. I can't stop laughing. I'm afraid I'll rupture if I look at only 1 pixel.
Yeah, but what your not thinking of is all that action in that time. I recommend thinking about starting to prepare the order for the containers you need to hold the ingredients for dissolution in your suggested timeframe.
@@crieverytim Homeopathy fans believe that by adding a tiny amount of a substance that's supposed to be healing to water, and diluting it until statistically the water contains nothing anymore, then the water is therapeutic because it has a "memory" of the substance.
@@horsepantherBut only if you shake it in EXACTLY the right way. By hand. BTW Never sure why the memory doesn't get wiped whenever the delivery truck goes over a pothole...
Jordan Bates That just goes to show how much of a lightweight he was. The more you dilute it the more powerful it becomes. A glass of water with 1 drop of beer will get you more drunk than the same glass with 2 drops.
That's not how you make homeopathic lager anyway; the water is supposed to remember that it was once (before being diluted) full of beer, which that water never was. Besides which, even if it were made properly, it wouldn't get you drunk; it would make you sober (if homeopathy worked).
@@ragerancher : Only if you prepare it homeopathically. Fill a container with water, then wash out the water thoroughly; do this several times, and when none of the original water is left, then the water that you have now will make you thirsty.
Once overheard a super-crunchy barista at a small coffee shop telling an older woman about her Reiki practice -- works for IBS, anxiety, CFS, whatever. At one point the woman interjected with "well, I have cancer, so...." Barista quietly agreed that, yeah, she should probably continue with chemo.
Having been involved in a horrific car amccident at 90mph my friend was left paralysed, unable to crap without the need of a bag. After almost giving up hope with 'scientific' medicine he tried homeopathy. The solution was remarkably simple. Based on the notion a minute amount of what harms you can cure you he was taken into the doctors car and placed into the back seat. Then the handbrake was released and the doctor and his receptionist gently pushed the car into a shrub at 2mph. He walked away
+ludd911 apparently if you take a 2 minute viral video and dilute it to about 2 seconds of its original length it becomes even better, gaining even more views.
Placebo is not a medicine, but it cures people. [sometimes.] There have been enough cures of some sicknesses to show this. That is why it is so hard to get rid of the "placebo effect" in testing. Many doctors don't want to use plaebos , because they do not want to lie to their patients. Some group of testers tried telling a group of patients that placebos had been proven to work on their condition, [wearing their white coats, showing them actual test results test results, and assuring them it will work; in a n authoritative voice.] They have now cured some patients with what the patients Know to be Placebos.
@@LTPottenger it is replicated 100% of the time, when all the variables are fixed. For it to be science, you have to accept variation based on variables that are unmeasurable, beyond your control or even not yet discovered.
@@djkompass You don't understand. No one replicates the studies as in runs them again, therefore they are invalid especially since they are done by the company selling the drug. They are no better than paranormal psychology 'science'
I didn't think I could love Mitchell & Webb even more!!! This is just pure golden. Dave Mitchell writes great articles in the Guardian also. If there was a Nobel Prize for Common Sense they'd win it in a heartbeat.
Anyone want to buy some homeopathic milk from me? I bravely drink the milk from the bottle then rinse it out before potentiating the leftover milk by filling up the bottle with homeopathic water. If you need something with more healing power, I can repeat the washing process.
Steve Keate Dude, I put a drop of milk into the ocean a few months ago. The entire world will soon thank me for their healthy bones. Gotta be super super diluted by now.
There's a product called "Zicam", that's currently being aggressively marketed here in the US. It's allegedly a common cold remedy. I happened to see it on the shelf at my local pharmacy, and noticed "Homeopathic" written in rather small text, on the corner of the box. I'm glad they're admitting it, but, unfortunately, I don't believe that most people know what Homeopathic really means.
I love this sketch it is so good. Just brilliant, my favourite anti woo comedy sketch ever.along with Rainbow rythmns from Peep Show. I would like to see them make some more sketches again.
Only if you're already drunk. If you're not drunk, then homeopathic lager would make you blind drunk with a single drop. But then another one will sober you up.
+Evi1M4chine But that's unfair because these companies take advantage of the pharma scare and the naturalistic fallacy by claiming that something is natural, even if it isn't, it sounds trustworthy and that's a dick move, even smart people I know "believe" in these supplements.
+Evi1M4chine Just because someone's dumb in one sense doesn't mean their lives don't mean anything. I have (and I think most of us have) plenty of family members who are political crackpots but they're still good family people who work hard at their jobs and are generally generous/decent people.
People without a scientific background are prone to a homeopath's manipulation. It's the homeopath's fault, not the nervy, scared, desperate individual that needs help.
Really, and what about the day when you see a mafiosa occult that controls the drugs industry for extremely high profits, who pay lobbyists to discredit alternative and complimentary practitioners. What about the millions who die from the side effect of drugs or are denied the necessary drugs they need or alternative therapies that could potentially work for them? Homeopaths do not put people's lives in danger, you need to re think your belief. Have you tried homeopathy? I doubt it. I use Pranic healing and Natural Nutrition and it works a treat. There are many alternative and complimentary treatments that can support the conventional treatments and even off more than conventional treatments. I agree that there are a lot of people who sell products making claims and they have no clue but there are genuine practitioners out there who train very hard in their discipline who do get results. Did you know that nearly 100 holistic Dr's have met very suspicious deaths over the last 18 months? some outright murdered. Healthy, successful, respected holistic Drs who would want them dead?
I think the number of people who turn to homeopathy compaired to mainstream medical care is greatly exaggerated, in fact I would go so far as to say they are but a drop in the ocean...
Chiropractic study is also complete quack pseudoscience, and amazingly it’s still funded by Australian Medicare if a Doctor refers you to it. I’d rather evidence-based treatment over what Gwyneth Paltrow says is good for.
@@andrewburgemeister6684 Chiropractors! Don't get me started! Entirely unnecessary, often harmful, yet people queue to be ripped off by those charlatans. Well, "A fool and his money..."
OH MY GOD THAT WAS AWESOME On a related note: one time, I was given a serious-sounding "job offer" when I was job-hunting, which turned out to be a pyramid scheme selling homeopathic remedies! Of course, I didn't find that out until I was trapped in their office. I had to shove the large woman strategically blocking the door out of the way to get out.
I remember there was a documentary show or something where people went to the factory and asked where they kept the ducks. They refused to show them. They also claimed that the duck portion was so small it was impossible to indicate with scientific methods. And indeed it was. That basically meant that there were no ducks and that they are just selling water.
If homeopathy worked the best thing you could do is refuse to buy the drugs they sell, the less you have the more effective so not taking any at all would be an extremely potent homeopathic drug ;)
