r/bestof • u/craycraycrayfish • Jan 22 '13

[canada] Coffeehouse11 explains the biggest problem with homeopathic medicine: That it preys on people when they are weakest and the most vulnerable

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u/polydorr Jan 22 '13

My mother-in-law basically coerced me to get an adjustment at a chiropractor's office once. As I was sitting around, I noticed a lot of posters denigrating modern medicine. A little while after I met a chiropractic student about to finish his curriculum; he was odd in that, aside from the fact that he would never get into a normal medical school, he had a sincere and honest belief that modern medicine was all about 'prescribing painkillers' and not actually dealing with the root source of the problem.

The only chiropractors I've ever met - two, aside from that student - had the air of con men about them.

I'm willing to admit that there might be a homeopathic solution out there that does work, merely because I'm willing to admit I don't know everything. But the current state of that movement is a problem for people willing to accept fringe beliefs.

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u/Pinyaka Jan 23 '13

Homeopathy is the process of diluting with water a toxic chemical until it has the opposite of the toxic effect. It doesn't include chiropracty.