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https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary/ Purity * Truth * Beauty Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary/#comment-115 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:50:22 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary#comment-115 My latest empty book is nearly full now…

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary/#comment-114 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:48:32 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary#comment-114 Indeed – although, those are rubbish arguments to use about homeopathy too. The metaphor doesn’t actually work for the first one – for that, person A would be buying blank books with the expectation that some “memory of print” in the blank recycled paper would directly convey ideas to his brain through some hitherto undiscovered mechanism.Regarding the second – as Ben Goldacre rightly points out in “Bad Science” – the same criticisms also apply to the homeopathy industry as to the evidence-based medicine industry, indeed the medicines and the sugar dipped in almost certainly unflavoured water are often made by the same companies.As you can tell from the above, I’m no fan of alternative medicine. But there are better ways to make the argument than in this cartoon. Most notably, that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that homeopathy works.

]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary/#comment-113 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:45:41 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary#comment-113 ]]> https://followersoftheapocalyp.se/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary/#comment-112 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:00:43 +0000 http://fotapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/frankly-i-suspect-the-book-isnt-even-necessary#comment-112 David, the arguments make more sense when you read the mouse-over and realise that the cartoon is about alternative medicine, homeopathy in particular.

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