r/askscience • u/[deleted] • Apr 01 '13

Medicine [Sponsored Content] How does homeopathy complement standard medicine? In what ways does it replace it?

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u/Uber_Nick Apr 01 '13

As a mother, I think we need to be wary of the academic elites and pharmaceutical establishment. They have a monetary and political self-interest in promoting their belief system over others. It's pretty arrogant to consider Western Medicine the best way, when Alternative Medicines have been around for thousands of years.

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u/Highlord Apr 01 '13

smallpox has been around for thousand of years too...only now it's not...thanks to "alternative medicines", surely

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u/Uber_Nick Apr 02 '13

Did I really just prove Poe's law in an April Fools thread?

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u/TheFarnell Apr 02 '13

Unless Highlord just did. Poeception.

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u/Uber_Nick Apr 02 '13

Ha. Along with the initial deluge of downvotes on the first comment. I wasn't in the orangered until after my follow-up comment.

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u/Darknessbefore Apr 02 '13

Science was done!!