251 Homeopathic Beer
I made some shirts and coasters for The Amazing Meeting next week:
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ROB
I think you're on to something, can you explain it to me?
WYLONA
In homeopathy, like cures like. You dilute something that causes the symptoms you have.
ROB
Your diluted beer might be the first hangove cure that actually helps!
WYLONA
Water is the secret ingredient.
ROB
We can call it PLACEBREW homeopathic ale and hangover remedy!
WYLONA
All of the water, none of the taste!
I think you're on to something, can you explain it to me?
WYLONA
In homeopathy, like cures like. You dilute something that causes the symptoms you have.
ROB
Your diluted beer might be the first hangove cure that actually helps!
WYLONA
Water is the secret ingredient.
ROB
We can call it PLACEBREW homeopathic ale and hangover remedy!
WYLONA
All of the water, none of the taste!
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That is hilarious. I think you have won the internet for today! If I’m not at TAM will it be possible to get one of the shirts?
“All of the water, none of the taste” – sounds like the majority of American beers.
That sounds absolutely horrible. It’ll sell like hotcakes. Bland, flavoreless, no syrup, no butter, no cake, hot cakes.
You really should take this product idea and run with it. It’ll make you more money that it really should.
It just occurred to me that in a very weird way that philosophy of homeopathy actually IS used in regular medicine. Diluting something that causes the symptoms you have is sort-of what Active Immunization actually does. Could… Could some homeopaths have seen how it works with viruses and decided that that’s how it works with everything?
Then again, doing it AFTER the fact, as a cure, wouldn’t be the same.
Maybe you could also sell the diluted beer as a beer-substitute which doesn’t cause a hangover in the first place? Sometimes from the taste of the local beer, I think my landlord might already have cottoned on to this.
First, immunization is definitely NOT a question of dilution, it’s a question of antigens maintaining their shapes but not their activity.
Second, it sickens me to find out (after trying to re-find this comic) that homeopathic beer (actually, alcohol) is already a real product 🙁
http://treatment.hpathy.com/homeo-medicine/homeopathy-alcohol-withdrawal-alcohol-addiction-treatment/
and wait, there’s more stupid:
http://homeopathyplus.com.au/homeopathic-beer/