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    Part One: The Bastard Who Invented Homeopathy | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
    In Episode 91, Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis, to discuss the baby-killing horror of homeopathy.
    Original Air Date: October 22, 2019
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  • @JesseMaurais
    @JesseMaurais 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    A fun little side story about homeopathy that I always enjoyed. The famed logician of the Victorian era, George Boole, who is the namesake of "boolean" algebra in computer science, was returning home from a lecture when it began to rain. The wet and cold sent him into a fever which left him bed ridden. His wife, being a proponent of homeopathy, began a treatment over the next few days that included drenching the fevered George with buckets of cold water. Can you guess what happened? That's right! He died.

    • @steveanton763
      @steveanton763 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I guessed right! Ten points for me!

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't know why, usually drenching a fever in icy water is a winner.

    • @cthulhluftagn3812
      @cthulhluftagn3812 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I question your defenition of fun...

  • @shaurmiath6719
    @shaurmiath6719 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    It is truly amazing to see how much this guy did to advance medical science, simply by accident. Got doctors to question if it was a good idea to poison people, got them to at least consider listening to their patients and consider their symptoms (still working on that,) the first double-blind study... it's amazing.

  • @QuantumJump451
    @QuantumJump451 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Now I want to listen to all the other iHeartRadio shows to find the one where Sophie bursts in in the middle of an episode going "GIVE ME THE MACHETE"

    • @11myricka
      @11myricka 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would pay $5 to know

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@11myricka Send me the $5 and I will tell you. Promise.

    • @11myricka
      @11myricka 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cliveadams7629 this is a TRAP 😭😭😭

  • @rexbaumeister7377
    @rexbaumeister7377 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Sophie sounds like she is absolutely *jonesing* for the podcasting machete.

  • @samster1004
    @samster1004 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This podcast is ridiculously under rated

    • @fredericksmith7942
      @fredericksmith7942 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think it is medium rated actually.

    • @stinkytoy
      @stinkytoy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I think they get millions of listens per month via more typical podcast outlets, it's just the youtube viewership itself is low.

    • @5ooP_sOUp
      @5ooP_sOUp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@fredericksmith7942medium rare

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@fredericksmith7942Yeah, always the way. Ask for blue, get medium.

  • @brutalbunny
    @brutalbunny 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    that little "fuck yeah! (high five)" when sophie got the machete... oh they're really so special

  • @theantithesis1
    @theantithesis1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    A stopped clock is right twice a day but a clock that's two minutes slow never is.

    • @steveanton763
      @steveanton763 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've never heard that before. Love it. Works on a few levels.
      Is it a well known quote?

  • @markrobinowitz8473
    @markrobinowitz8473 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    An hour of silence might be a good description of homeopathy ... the "pet rocks" of medicine.

  • @dwaynezilla
    @dwaynezilla ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "nonsense water" is my new fave

  • @KitaBFawkes
    @KitaBFawkes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sidenote: The real life scenario that sets up The Lord of the Flies... has actually happened and resulted in the kids quickly developing an egalitarian practice and taking care of an injured kid until they were rescued.

    • @rodneysmith873
      @rodneysmith873 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wholeheartedly believe that Lord of the Flies is help up solely by people who want to believe humans are inherently bad.

  • @sholem_bond
    @sholem_bond 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's interesting how relatively often "like cures like" is actually true (or at least appears to be superficially true if you don't know what's medically happening inside the body).
    With a lot of types of ADHD and ADHD medication, for example, stimulants (that make NTs jittery/energized/unable to relax/anxious) can make people with ADHD calmer and make our brains work better, to the extent that sometimes we go to sleep (the theory I've heard for why this works is that while stimulants cause NT brains to release too much dopamine and adrenaline, they cause ADHD brains to release the right amount, or closer to the right amount than usual, since ADHD brains tend to release too little dopamine and similar hormones/neurotransmitters, and have trouble regulating release-reuptake cycles like the one that controls dopamine in the brain). I've taken a dose of Ritalin to try to stay awake and do homework a little longer, and then fallen asleep a few minutes after taking it anyway.
    "Like cures like" (or appears to); stimulants can treat hyperactivity (or in some cases the type of ADHD that's inattentive/would previously have been considered ADD, because not all ADHD includes hyperactivity, paradoxically, but yeah).
    Or for example, with diseases like cancer (where the problem is basically unregulated cell growth), or autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis (where the problem is the body's immune system cells targeting its own tissue and systems; the nervous system, with MS), a remedy that kills some of the cells in the patient's body, and is poison to a healthy person, can actually have a positive effect.
    Again, broadly: "like cures like" (or appears to); poison seems to cure attacks on the body from mysterious wasting diseases that kind of resemble poisoning symptoms (to an observer at that time).
    That's not how you cure most things, but it's interesting that he came to that conclusion.

    • @sholem_bond
      @sholem_bond 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think the illusion of "like cures like" also often comes from the fact that if people are deficient in something (adrenaline and similar hormones; insulin; vitamins, etc) and you supplement it, deficient people will recover or their symptoms will improve, while if you treat healthy people in the same way (by essentially giving them too much of something they weren't previously deficient in) it can often make them sick.
      A lot of people have deficiencies in various essential substances, and people probably had even more back then when we knew less about stuff like balanced nutrition and hydration. Even if you treat someone's vitamin deficiency by accident, you are still treating it and that will probably still help the patient at least a little (even if the deficiency wasn't the main thing making the patient sick, potentially, treating it could still help the body recover better on its own).

  • @RaunienTheFirst
    @RaunienTheFirst 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As a brit, these pronunciations are causing me massive psychic damage

  • @seanlockwood1092
    @seanlockwood1092 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Always love an American trying to say Gloucester. It's actually pronounced 'Wymondham'...

    • @zhazhagab0r
      @zhazhagab0r 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We literally have a city in Massachusetts called Gloucester, proonounced the same way as in England. It's just a weird word if you're not familiar with it lol.

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fool. It's pronounced Chomondly Smythe.

    • @HarryDirtay
      @HarryDirtay หลายเดือนก่อน

      They don't pronounce it Glosstah in England ​@@zhazhagab0r😂

  • @justcommenting4981
    @justcommenting4981 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So you're telling me there is a knife out there I can use to cut both other knives AND electricity?

    • @rodneysmith873
      @rodneysmith873 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It must be the work of an enemy Stand.

  • @PMickeyDee
    @PMickeyDee 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This just hits different than i suppose it would have when originally aired 😂

  • @VildhjartaFanGurl
    @VildhjartaFanGurl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What's the name of the knife? Gerber what?

  • @notoriouswhitemoth
    @notoriouswhitemoth 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Honestly, the witchcraft he learned was probably closer to modern medicine than humorism (what passed for medicine at the time) is, considering that, historically, medicine was one of the many roles religious leaders played in their communities.
    Also most modern medicine originated in the Congo, and definitely would have been considered witchcraft at the time.

    • @snorpenbass4196
      @snorpenbass4196 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ...gonna need a citation for that bit about modern medicine originating in the Congo? Edit: It's generally agreed that what we call modern medicine started in the 9th century CE in Salerno, with the original predecessor being Imhotep the Egyptian, and the methodology itself originating with Ibn Sina (also known as Avicenna) in the 10th century CE. Only things I found claiming anything about the Congo were New Age nonsense and homeopathy crap.

    • @cliveadams7629
      @cliveadams7629 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@snorpenbass4196Don't forget the ayahuasca.

    • @SesshyLover777
      @SesshyLover777 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fascinating! (The replies too)

  • @theveteransergeant
    @theveteransergeant 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I believe the river in Cleveland caught on fire a total of 12 times. It's one of the driving reasons the EPA was formed.

  • @willowarkan2263
    @willowarkan2263 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    34:00 that is just the far too common correlation causation conflation, the fact that the idea seems to sometimes work is just coincidence and more often then not is ineffective or actively detrimental. It might be a reflexive conclusion, but it should be actively suppressed.

  • @TheIyiytShow
    @TheIyiytShow 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you hide a bag of marijuana where your airbag was, what happens if you crash your car? Does it just blast weed directly into your face?

  • @Islandswamp
    @Islandswamp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didn’t that cat killing kid have a basic instinct fetish?

  • @wild-radio7373
    @wild-radio7373 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🥰🔪

  • @IAmCaligvla
    @IAmCaligvla 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That bit a about beating Trump by electing another old fart... Oh boy, if only they knew.

    • @defies4626
      @defies4626 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weirdest part is... for all that Biden has some sticking annoying points and his... *problematic* history, he's honestly been surprisingly effective and useful as a president.

    • @rodneysmith873
      @rodneysmith873 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@defies4626in all honesty Dark Brandon has been way better than I expected. Not great, more like stumbling over a very low bar but holy shit at least he isn't an actual Nazi.

  • @dickbrain42069
    @dickbrain42069 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love this show; you're like the Frasier and Roz of our era. I guess that makes Billy "Mad Dog" or something, idk.