Ye pet peeves of the non-furry variety
What is your pet peeve of the day?
Mine is homeopathy. Naturopathy is cool, and while it's often not very scientifically approached or studied, at least it's possible to be effective. (although I hate when people naturally assume - heh, pardon the pun - that naturopathy is safer than western medicine because it's based on naturally occurring substances. You cannot make that kind of generalization about thousands of chemicals / plants. Nature is quite adept at producing some downright horrifying toxins.)
Homeopathy, though is completely dumb. It's like, "Here's a pill that's been diluted eight billion times so the probability that it contains any of the original substance is about equal to the probability that the universe will have a spontaneous quantum queef and your ass will be full of gold coins. But somehow, it's stronger than the original substance itself. Quack quack quack quack quack."
Don't even get me started on the anti-vaccination people...
Mine is homeopathy. Naturopathy is cool, and while it's often not very scientifically approached or studied, at least it's possible to be effective. (although I hate when people naturally assume - heh, pardon the pun - that naturopathy is safer than western medicine because it's based on naturally occurring substances. You cannot make that kind of generalization about thousands of chemicals / plants. Nature is quite adept at producing some downright horrifying toxins.)
Homeopathy, though is completely dumb. It's like, "Here's a pill that's been diluted eight billion times so the probability that it contains any of the original substance is about equal to the probability that the universe will have a spontaneous quantum queef and your ass will be full of gold coins. But somehow, it's stronger than the original substance itself. Quack quack quack quack quack."
Don't even get me started on the anti-vaccination people...