Homeopathy Awareness Week special: Proving of Helium

This has not been a good week, what with shrill antivax activists posting and reposting their stupidity and lies everywhere, in order to game search engine results; white supremacists going on yet another shooting spree; the UK Government defending Saudi Arabia’s ISIS-like barbarity; and homeopathy touts being more than usually active because they’ve dubbed this “Homeopathy Awareness Week”.

OK, so be aware: homeopathy is unscientific bollocks. We’ve been over this ground more times than I care to remember. What never fails to fascinate, however, is the stellar out-to-lunchness of their “research” and the poker-faced claims made for it. Fascinating in the same way as those really fucking terrible made-for-TV films that even third-rate channels won’t touch with a bargepole, that is.

One such example is this proving of helium. Homeopathic proving, you will recall, has nothing to do with either proof or evidence: it is an exercise in mental masturbation … Continue reading →

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