My mother was a chelation therapy advocate before her death from tobacco related causes. Somehow this strikes me as amusing.

Unfortunately she and fellow advocates convinced our provincial government in BC Canada to finance it under our Medical Services Plan.

She was a conspiracy theorist before the phrase was invented. I remember as a child her rants about who really killed JFK and government cover-ups of UFO activities. I’m embarrassed to admit I bought her arguments. It was with delight that I found the skeptic’s movement through podcasts, and am now as fierce as she was, just this time on the side of the truth.

You also mentioned that the Loch Ness Monster hasn’t been seen for while. This is obviously because someone has accidentally or maliciously dropped a single homeopathic sleeping remedy into Loch Ness, and at that dilution of a single dose in a whole lake it has sent Nessie to sleep for a month.

Homeopaths are well documented as providing homeopathic remedies to prevent Malaria, so an extension of this logic is that if you take a single dose of homeopathic malaria remedy and dropped it into Lake Victoria or Lake Tanganyika you would presumably see a massive drop in incidences of malaria in all the people living round the lake who drink the lake water, which should be measurable. By the same logic the consequences of anyone taking a shit in the lake would be unthinkable.

In fact if we are thinking of preventative homeopathy, we could take a single dose of malaria remedy and drop it at the source of the Congo, Amazon, Orinoco and other rivers that go through malaria infested areas, as the remedy went down river it would become increasingly diluted, and offer increasingly powerful protection against a deadly disease for all the people who live along it’s banks and drink the water. Given that millions of people die from malaria every year, it’s amazing that no-one has thought of such a cheap and easy solution before. In fact we could try to cure everything, as homeopathic remedies are supposed to have no negative effects, we could drop one dose of every remedy at the source of every river, and in all reservoirs, and no-one would ever get ill.

Everyone except me that is, I don’t drink water, it contains the memory of millions and millions of turds, in fact most of the turds ever shat, at incredible levels of dilution.

Cheers

Mike

http://buttcandle.com/index.html

Methinks i smell a Poe…and the delicate waft of butt toxins being purified

As for the Question of woo in family’s; My immediate family is pretty skeptical when it comes to spurious claims (i did find a book on Reiki that my dad had got from the library, which was a bit surprising, but i’ve never seen him refer to it so i imagine he saw what nonsense it is)

We’re a surprisingly naturally skeptical family really, gods know what my parents thought of my obsession with the paranormal when i was younger!

As for woo My sister is a believer in spirits and mediums. My cousin apparently believes in a lot of alt med crap ( possibly even homeopathy ) which is dissapointing given that she is a nurse.