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Homeopathic Awareness Week: Aftermath, and 3 fun flavours!

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So last week was Homeopathic Awareness Week. I am happy to report I survived the stupid. But I am more aware of homeopathy than before, and here are some excellent droplets for those who want to know what the fuck the local crazy person is on about.

Following the reveltionation that Zicam kills your sense of smell, perhaps you're hoping for a more discerning form of homeopathy. None of this medieval ages stuff with brand names slapped on, and 'homeopathic' hidden on the bottle for you, you want the proper stuff for the Nuclear Age!

Fear not, my woo-loving friend, we present you with homeopathic Plutonium, now availiable at select Chemists.
Where in London can one purchase plutonium? In Covent Garden, at the Helios Homeopathy shop.

Dr Fiona Barclay, a chemist at RGB Research in west London, made this discovery. Her company specialises in selling collections of the periodic table elements (with the exception of those elements that are illegal or are so very short-lived - a few seconds or less - that they invite frustration). Some elements are easy to purchase: carbon, sulphur, iron. For others, one can turn to eBay, where arsenic, uranium (in the form of uranium-tipped missiles), and other elements of ill repute are commonly on offer.

But plutonium proved hard to find ... until Barclay turned to Google, which directed her to the Helios shop. She explains what happened next:

"I went to Covent Garden and went into the shop and said, 'Please, may I have some plutonium.' And the lady behind the counter said, 'I shall fetch the chemist.'

"The chemist was duly fetched, and I said, 'I'd really like a sample of plutonium.' She asked, 'And how strong would you like it, madam?'

"I had gone in there with the very good intention of asking what their original source was, because it's my understanding that, although they dilute everything until there's not even a molecule left, they do start off with one drop. But I got frazzled, and forgot to ask.

"The chemist gave me pillules, which very entertainingly have a 'best before' date of the 31st of March, 2013. And as I was leaving she pointed out that there was no plutonium in it.

British citizens are not limited to the one source. Freeman's Homeopathic Pharmacy offers "plutonium nitricum", also listed as "plutonium nit", for sale on its website. It also sells "Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee hair)", peach, peanut, pelican, "petrol and diesel fumes", "pig dust", "pig hair", and "placenta (human Welsh)".

Those are just nine of the 184 available items with names that begin with the letter "p". The firm offers homeopathic medicines from all the other letters of the alphabet, too. And yes, you can get uranium nit.

Helios, too, has a website. It offers four tablets of plutonium (236) nitricum for £4.06, but notes that "Helios remedies are without therapeutic indications".

Where can one go for therapeutic indications about medicinal plutonium? Provence, France.

In 2005, Dr Ramon Frendo of that city wrote one of the few existing monographs on the subject. Published in the Revue Belge d'Homoeopathie, it describes two patients whom Frendo treated with plutonium nit. One was a 59-year-old woman who had delusions and "had dreams about sharks", the other a 39-year-old who "hated her mother but could not leave her" and who "also dreams of sharks".

This followed by a year a related Frendo study called Guano, which appeared in the same journal, but which, perhaps inevitably, because of the sexiness of the plutonium paper, no longer gets its fair share of attention.
If you can handle dreams of sharks, perhaps that's for you.

Too macroscopic? A little uncertain(Bad joke, I know.)? Don't worry, for you, research is underway on quantum homeopathy! Guaranteed to render you unable to know if you took the treatment and if you are better at the same time!

Not enough? Still have the sniffles despite dreams of sharks? We have the most powerful option for last; here eagle's fear to tread, my friend. The very, very last word in the field, we present to you homeopatich ANTIMATTER in the form of Positronium.

Sample paragraph:
The homeopathic remedy "Positronium" was prepared using positrons from a Na-22 source, which were passed through a nitrogen gas cell to form postronium by capturing electrons off the nitrogen atoms. The resulting positronium beam then impinged on a metal surface, where the positronium atoms decayed, giving off the characteristic 511 keV radiation. A glass vial filled with 96% ethanol was exposed to this radiation for 24 hours and then potentized to 30C by the Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy. The strength of the positronium beam was approximately 10 million positronium atoms per second. A total of approximately 10^9 (1.000.000.000) annihilation events were captured by the glass vial.
(Helios Homeopathic is the same place offering the plutonium.)

Reported side-effects of the antimatter-contagioned water were: dryness, dreams of 'seeing inside things', lethargy.

Homeopathic plutonium, antimatter, and quantum mechanics. For all your homeopathic needs now that Zicam is discredited!
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I dare say, 21st-century homeopathy is the downright silliest thing that I've ever wanted to include in a science fiction story. Can you imagine some 'frontier' doctor on the edge of the Zylaxian Expanse? 'Now, Ms Williams, you need to take this tincture of leptons and mix it with an antimatter extract elixir twice a day. You'll likely be taking a blend of quarks, but you may or may not remember it.'
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Homeopathic... antimatter...

:shock:

Alright, that just redlined my whackometer. I swear, one day I'm going to buckle down, write some completely farcical SF/F stories about this shit, and laugh all the way to the bank. Really, really, I should. Maybe I will. What the hell -won't be able to do construction work forever.
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The last one sounds like Voyager's shortcut home plan of the week.

Approximately a million annihilation events in a glass vial. But were there sharks?
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Excuse me, but I need to head inwards to talk to my non-euclidean homeopathic doctor. He says that all of the body's hard to reach organs can be tended to by going upwards through a 4th plane, so I'll take his word on it. Even if there's a mild chance of a case of the Colour Out of Space.

See, at least back in the day, the mystery drug had class like 'refined elephant earlobe'. But saying 'Oh hey! I made you some Antimatter herbal tea' with a straight face is just... wow.
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I'll say the same thing I always say about homeopathy - if it really works then how come we only dilute cleaning solutions to 1/100th or so? If we diluted it more shouldn't they be more effective? And following the same logic, shouldn't acids and bases become MORE caustic?
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It gets worse- doesn't that mean that the oceans are more effective? After all, at one point in time they have had everything in them!

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You people don't get it: homeopathic medicine works because it's not diluted - it's potentized!

Eg. shaked the proper way between dilutions ;)

On the other note, I'm really getting a Fallout 3 vibe from them selling irradiated water as a drug :D
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Can you use homeopathic plutonium to cure a nuclear explosion? Like is supposed to cure like, after all. Perhaps they will develop homeopathic Higgs bosons to treat obesity next.
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PeZook wrote:On the other note, I'm really getting a Fallout 3 vibe from them selling irradiated water as a drug :D
They used to sell Radium Water a long time ago as a 'miracle cure', this is nothing new - just the same old snake oil in a new bottle.
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KlavoHunter wrote:
PeZook wrote:On the other note, I'm really getting a Fallout 3 vibe from them selling irradiated water as a drug :D
They used to sell Radium Water a long time ago as a 'miracle cure', this is nothing new - just the same old snake oil in a new bottle.
In all due fairness the old fashioned Radium water had actual radium in it. This is just plain old water. Water bootles are less of a scam- they actually sell something useful (the bottle).
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Broomstick wrote:Homeopathic... antimatter...

Well, a large enough quantty of antimatter will "cure" that cold you have. Of course it will cure you of that pesky "living" thing as well.
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