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I've written a number of times about Oprah's support for absurd medical claims, and Dr. David Gorski does a great job detailing the history of Oprah's ability to elevate quacks from obscurity to stardom.
If there's one form of pseudoscientific health care (if you can call it that) that rests on the most risibly implausible tenets, I'd have to say that it's homeopathy.
I bet you didn't know this (maybe because of homeopathic publicity), but today is the first day of Homeopathy Awareness Week, which runs from June 14 to 21.
Today, April 10, is the first day of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW), or, as I like to call it, World Sympathetic Magic Awareness Week.
Didn't work. But "Tears of the Dragon" has now inspired some doodles that may turn into real artwork. Someday. If I ever get around to it.
frakin' homeopathy. i can think of 10^23 reasons why it is stupid.
I have discovered a wonderful cure for writers block.
Break a rib.
It can leave you immobile for days at a time ensconced in a chair with a laptop and absolutely nothing else you can do.
(I'm into my fourth day as I write this. Reviewing my recent output suggests painkillers don't help with coherence particularly, but when typing is less problematic than breathing, you will do lots and lots of it.)
Ouch. Feel better, gruebait.